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GCF partners with Save the Children on major Vanuatu climate resilience project
... nearly USD 37 million, includes a GCF grant of over USD 26 million, with additional co-financing from the ...
Article > News update Vanuatu SCA 
Delivering at speed: 12 new projects ready for implementation
... for 22 projects, bringing the year’s total to USD 3.26 billion. GCF’s portfolio currently comprises 336 ...
Article > News update 
Green stimulus in the post COVID-19 era and beyond
... most important problem of our generation". Next year’s UNFCCC Conference of Parties will be critical for climate ... countries alone are estimated at between $11 to US$ 26 trillion between now and 2030, but barriers to investment ...
Article > Speech
Adaptation Fund, Green Climate Fund Convene First Community of Practice Meeting of Direct Access Entities to Climate Finance
... interactive plenaries and group discussions, as well as a visit to an AF-funded Direct Access project implemented by ...
Article > Press release United States AfDB 
GCF at COP29 summary
... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). One of COP29’s key outcomes was the New Collective ... that a share of the finance delivered through the UNFCCC’s financing arms will be significantly scaled up. As ... grassroots climate action campaigns. For more information, visit the GCF at COP29 microsite . Azerbaijan Baku GCF ...
Article > News update Azerbaijan 
Catalysing transformative climate resilient infrastructure through private investment
... Action reiterated the UN Secretary General’s call for COP26 to deliver breakthroughs on adaptation and resilience - ... commitments are realistic and can be achieved by COP26”, concluded Hart. Babita Bisht, GCF Deputy Director ...
Article > Press release 
ED opening remarks
... is very timely coming just two weeks before the start of COP26 in Glasgow. The role of the private sector in addressing ... 2019. Ultimately though, this climate finance under the UNFCC needs to be used in a highly catalytic way so that we ... opportunities could yield a direct economic gain of USD 26 trillion through to 2030. These flows should particularly ...
Article > Speech
GCF/B.22/Inf.09 - Report on the execution of the 2018 administrative budget of the GCF
This document presents a review of the execution of the 2018 administrative budget of the GCF. It is based on actual expenditures relating to activities of the Board, Independent Units and the Secretariat for the year 1...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.19/11/Add.03 - Status of the GCF portfolio and pipeline – Addendum: Information on facilitating an increase in proposals from direct access entities
In decision B.18/02, para. (b), the Board requested the Secretariat to include the information described in annex II (“Information on proposals by direct access entities”) in its regular reporting to the Board on the...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.15/Inf.13 - Report on the execution of the administrative budget for 2016
This document presents an update of actual expenditures for the ten months to 31 October 2016 against the approved budget for 2016. It is based on actual expenditures relating to activities of the Board and the...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.05/10 - Initial Structure and Staffing of the Secretariat
This document is submitted in response to decision B.04/09, which, inter alia, stated that the Board:
Noted convergence that the initial structure and organization of both the Fund and the Secretariat should be...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.08/15 - Outcome of the IRM
Pursuant to decision B.07/09, a process of collective engagement in the Fund's Initial Resource Mobilization (IRM) process was launched with potential contributors. The first IRM meeting was held on 30 June–1 July in...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.09/11/Rev.01 - Private Sector Facility: Potential Approaches to Mobilizing Funding at Scale
At its eighth meeting, the Board considered document GCF/B.08/13 Potential Approaches to Mobilizing Funding at Scale. There was broad support for the approaches outlined in the document, but, due to time limitations, no...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.09/Inf.03/Add.01 - Report on Activities of the Secretariat - Addendum
The Progress Report on the Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme has been prepared in accordance with the guidance provided in Board decisions B.06/11 and B.08/11. The report covers the period from the eighth...
Board document > Information
The Vaka Motu (boat for the islands) – building indigenous community resilience with low emission sea transportation in the Micronesian region
This concept note provides basic information on the project/programme "The Vaka Motu (boat for the islands) – building indigenous community resilience with low emission sea transportation in the Micronesian region," and...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries SPREP
Sustainable Integrated Water Resources Management to Build Resilience to Climate Change in the Water Sector of Antigua and Barbuda
This concept note provides basic information on the project/programme "Sustainable Integrated Water Resources Management to Build Resilience to Climate Change in the Water Sector of Antigua and Barbuda," and was...
Document > Concept note Antigua and Barbuda DOE_ATG
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP013: Improving the resilience of vulnerable coastal communities to climate change related impacts in Viet Nam
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP013: Improving the resilience of vulnerable coastal communities to climate change related impacts in Viet Nam. Project and...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Viet Nam UNDP
Program of Reduction of Climate Change impact Through afforestation and reforestation, improved stove technology, and redistribution of environmental services revenues to communities in the private-public partnership
This concept note provides basic information on the project/programme "Program of Reduction of Climate Change impact Through afforestation and reforestation, improved stove technology, and redistribution of...
Document > Concept note Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
Staple Crops processing Zone (SCPZ) Promoting sustainable agricultural value chains
This concept note provides basic information on the project/programme "Staple Crops processing Zone (SCPZ) Promoting sustainable agricultural value chains," and was submitted to allow the project proponent a chance to...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries AfDB
Initial investment framework: activity-specific sub-criteria and indicative assessment factors
Adopted by decision B.09/05 (b). Sets out definitions of the Fund's investment criteria, activity-specific sub-criteria, and indicative assessment factors AEs should use to inform the development of funding proposals.
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Supporting the recently established National Coordination on Climate Change (Coordination Nationale Climat) strengthening its engagement with GCF through ambitious pipeline development
This readiness proposal aims at strengthening the capacity of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) National Designated Authority (NDA) in Central African Republic (CAR) to mobilise climate finance from a variety of sources,...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Central African Republic (the)
Increasing climatic resilience of urban water management system of Hyderabad
This concept note provides basic information on the project/programme "Increasing climatic resilience of urban water management system of Hyderabad," and was submitted to allow the project proponent a chance to seek...
Document > Concept note India NABARD
Policy on ethics and conflicts of interest for the Board of the Green Climate Fund
Adopted by decision B.09/03 (a). Sets out the ethics and conflicts of interest policies for the Board.
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
GCF/B.25/09 - Updated Strategic Plan for the Green Climate Fund: 2020-23 Draft by the Co-Chairs
This document responds to the Board’s request under decision B.24/03 to present a final draft of the updated Strategic Plan for 2020-23 for the Board’s consideration at its twenty fifth meeting (B.25).
This builds on...
Board document > Action item
Climate-Informed Watershed Management in the Northern Pacific Region of Costa Rica
As a result of climate change, the northern Pacific region of Costa Rica will experience a significant decrease in precipitations and increase in temperatures, leading to more frequent and severe droughts. This will...
Document > Concept note Costa Rica UNDP
Support green development poles to strengthen the resilience to climate change of communities, ecosystems and agro-silvopastoral production systems of municipalities in the Brakna Region in Mauritania
The Brakna region is facing severe climatic change characterized by the decrease and poor distribution of rainfall and the increase in temperature over the years. The expected increase in temperature and rainfall...
Document > Concept note Mauritania IUCN
Integrated Low Emission Approach for Efficient Use of Reclaimed Wastewater in the Agricultural Sector in Jordan
The government of Jordan prioritized alternative strategies to treat wastewater to secure water resources needed for the agricultural sector aiming to increase farmer's resilience toward climate change, and to cope the...
Document > Concept note Jordan IUCN
Introductory webinar on the GCF Sectoral Guide: Agriculture and Food Security
In connection with the GCF Sectoral Guides Consultation launched on 9 November 2020, this webinar will present the draft GCF Sectoral Guide on Agriculture and Food Security and include a Q&A session.
The GCF...
Event > Webinar 
GCF/B.28/11/Add.02 - Methodology for establishing a baseline of greenhouse gas emissions and climate resilience for the portfolio of accredited entities
In accordance with paragraph 35 of the GCF Monitoring and Accountability Framework for Accredited Entities, adopted in decision B.11/10, to advance the goal of the GCF to promote the paradigm shift towards low-emission...
Board document > Action item
Support green development poles to strengthen the resilience to climate change of communities, ecosystems and agro-silvopastoral production systems of municipalities in the Brakna Region in Mauritania
The Brakna region is facing severe climatic changes characterized by the decrease and poor distribution of rainfall and the increase in temperature over the years. The expected increase in temperature and rainfall...
Document > Concept note Mauritania IUCN