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FP122 - Blue Action Fund (BAF): GCF Ecosystem Based Adaptation Programme in the Western Indian Ocean
Reducing or avoiding climate change impacts through ecosystem-based adaptation for vulnerable coastal populations.
The western Indian Ocean region is undergoing rapid climate change. Mozambique was hit by two major...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries
SAP010 - Multi-Hazard Impact-Based Forecasting and Early Warning System for the Philippines
Scaling up current initiatives on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the Philippines.
The Philippines is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate hazards, experiencing an average of...
Project > Public sector Philippines (the)
SAP012 - Inclusive Green Financing for Climate Resilient and Low Emission Smallholder Agriculture
Improving access to credit for smallholder farmers in Niger to implement climate-resilient and low-emission agriculture.
Current predictions show that agricultural production in Niger is estimated to drop by 20 percent...
Project > Public sector Niger (the)
Policies: Accreditation
Accreditation
In deploying its resources, the Green Climate Fund works through a wide range of institutions to finance projects and programmes. To access funding, these institutions go through a process of “...
Basic page > Policy map
GCF approves 11 projects at its final Board meeting of the year
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) concluded its last Board meeting of 2017 by approving 11 new projects and programmes valued at USD 392.86 million to assist developing countries respond to climate change.
The 18th meeting...
Article > Press release
GCF private sector conference makes business case to lower planet's climate costs
“Business cannot succeed on a planet that fails.”
This was how the Green Climate Fund’s Executive Director Yannick Glemarec articulated his call for enhanced business action to tackle the climate crisis during the Fund’...
Article > Press release
How can climate action balance the needs of nature and people?
Efforts to protect ecosystems must also take into account global development goals intended to lift people out of poverty.
A difficult past has taught young Ugandan beekeeper Shildah Nabimanya the importance of...
Article > Article about GCF Uganda
GCF commits to support climate resilient transformation at Climate Adaptation Summit
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is heeding calls to help developing countries bolster their defences against the increasingly damaging effects of climate change, while overcoming COVID-19 fiscal constraints.
That was the...
Article > Press release
GCF can plug the adaptation finance gap say leaders at COP26 side lines dialogue
Small island nations with only a little over a decade to prepare for accelerating global heating need large injections of climate finance to avert disaster, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley told a Green Climate Fund...
Article > Press release
Empowering farmers and protecting forests in Eastern Madagascar
In spite of only producing 0.01% of the world’s annual carbon dioxide emissions, Madagascar is facing the brunt of climate change. Extended droughts, lesser incidences of rainfall, and aggressive cyclones devastate the...
Article > Story Madagascar
25th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP25)
The 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP25, will be held from 2-13 December 2019 at Madrid, Spain. The conference is designed to take the next crucial steps...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Spain
Postcard from Katowice: Saturday, December 8
The weekend may have arrived, but negotiations continued throughout Saturday in Katowice. Progress is being made, but not quickly enough to achieve the Presidency's goal of closing all the 'non-Paris Agreement' items by...
Article > Press release
Kyrgyzstan sees GCF partnership as key to its future
Kyrgyzstan views cooperation with the Green Climate Fund as a central plank of its development, one of the mountainous country’s top diplomats told the Fund’s Executive Director Howard Bamsey today.
“My country is...
Article > Press release Kyrgyzstan
GCF/B.22/06 - Updated Gender Policy and Action Plan 2019–2021
This document presents an update of the Gender Policy and Action Plan originally adopted in decision B.09/11. This update follows the request made by the Board in decision B.12/16 for the Secretariat to prepare a review...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.13/20 - Status of staffing of the Secretariat – a progress report
The Board is faced with capacity challenges within the Secretariat, with regard to a number of interrelated issues. At its twelfth meeting, the Board authorized the recruitment of new staff aiming at filling...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.05/18 - Resource Mobilization
At its meeting in March 2013 in Berlin, Germany, the Board, through decision B.01-13/09, approved the scope of further work on resource mobilization for the Fund, set out in Annex II of document GCF/B.01-13/07, which...
Board document > Action item
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Egypt through UNEP
Egypt set up its own mechanism to engage all concerned stakeholders through forming a national committee composed of representatives of all ministries and relevant academia on GCF-related issues to identify priority...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Egypt
GCF/B.23/Inf.13 - Updated policy for contributions to the Green Climate Fund
This draft paper was developed in response to the Board’s request, under decision B.21/18, for the Secretariat to prepare updated policies for contributions for consideration by the Board and the replenishment process....
Board document > Information
Agreement with Spanish global investor strengthens GCF’s private sector pull
The Green Climate Fund has increased its ability to tap private sector profits to finance climate action by strengthening its ties with Spanish-based international investor COFIDES.
Compañía Española de Financiación...
Article > Press release
Adaptation planning support for Albania through UNDP
This project is therefore designed to help the Government of Albania increase its capacity to address the country’s climate change vulnerabilities. Specifically, this funding request willsupport Albania to develop a...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Albania
Pledging Conference for GCF's First Replenishment
The shared urgency of addressing climate change took an historic step forward with 27 countries pledging to replenish the Green Climate Fund (GCF) by USD 9.78 billion equivalent for the next four years. The resources...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF France
Strategic frameworks support for Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname through CDEMA
Early warning is a major element of disaster risk reduction (DRR). It can prevent loss of life and reduce the economic and material impacts of hazardous events, including disasters. Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
NDA strengthening and country programming support for India through UNDP (Phase 2)
The first phase of the readiness programme was implemented by UNDP from November 2016 to October 2019. Major focus was at national level a) to strengthen institutional capacity for NDA to fulfil its role and b)...
Document > Approved readiness proposal India
Strengthening the resilience of ecosystems and populations in four regional hubs in northern Mauritania
Observed climate changes are resulting in an intense process of desertification in Mauritania, putting additional pressure in the extremely fragile oases of the Sahara and moving the desert conditions further south,...
Document > Concept note Mauritania
GCF audited financial statements for the years ending December 31, 2019 and 2018
The audited financial statements for the years ending December 31, 2019, and 2018 include the income statement, statement of financial position, statement of changes in funds, statement of cash flows, and the notes to...
Document > Financial statement
Strengthening on-ground community resilience and sustainability to climate change in the Kingdom of Tonga
Tonga is ranked as the second or third most vulnerable country to climate change impacts in the world, whilst contributing a negligible amount to global greenhouse gas emissions. In Tonga, the multiple and cumulative...
Document > Concept note Tonga
Developing a GHG and SLCP monitoring network for enhanced compliance & enforcement of emission standards and improved climate change reporting
Enforcement of emissions regulation in Kenya is greatly hindered by the limited capacity to continuously monitor ambient air pollution, which limits the development of appropriate policy and legal instruments to...
Document > Concept note Kenya
GCF/B.30/08 - Review of Secretariat capabilities to deliver the updated Strategic Plan for 2020 – 2023
This document presents a review of the Secretariat’s capabilities to deliver increased programming and implementation over 2020-23 in line with ambitions of the GCF updated Strategic Plan (USP), endorsed by the Board at...
Board document > Action item
GCF regional workshop for Direct Access Entities in Africa
This regional workshop will provide an opportunity for GCF Direct Access Entities (DAEs) in Africa to advance discussions with the GCF Secretariat about their planned project/programme pipeline development, with a view...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF
GCF/B.33/Inf.07 - Current GCF approach to financing for forests and alternative approaches
This document presents the current GCF approach to financing for forests, including alternative approaches, as mandated under decision GCF/B.32/10, Annex I, paragraph (e). In the context of the United Nations Framework...
Board document > Information Pages
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