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FP119 - Water Banking and Adaptation of Agriculture to Climate Change in Northern Gaza
Developing a low-carbon water management scheme and increasing water availability for sustainable agriculture.
The water level of the coastal aquifer in Gaza, the region’s only freshwater resource, is declining rapidly...
Project > Public sector State of Palestine 
FP120 - Chile REDD-plus results-based payments for results period 2014-2016
Recognising Chile’s REDD+ results for the years 2014, 2015 and 2016.
During these years, Chile has reduced a total volume of 18.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂eq) in emissions from reducing...
Project > Public sector Chile 
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 
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 
Climate-smart farming boosts forests and food security in Madagascar
In Madagascar — one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries — a devastating drought, punctuated by intense cyclones, has pushed more than a million people into hunger.
As extreme weather exacerbates poverty...
Article > Story Madagascar 
Cuba's coastal communities fight climate change
In the coastal neighbourhood of Litoral in Manzanillo, Cuba, the sea is both a lifeline and a threat. Every time a storm darkens the sky, families like Martha Labrada’s brace for evacuation. And even on calm days,...
Article > Story Cuba 
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 
Green Climate Fund energy strategy accelerates low-carbon transition
Baku, Azerbaijan— The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has set out how its energy strategy will support new COP29 pledges to accelerate the low-carbon transition, marking Energy Day at COP29.
GCF has already committed over USD...
Article > Press release 
From seed to shelf
In the heat of the day, on a hundred-hectare farm in Namibia, a group of people are huddled together. They are observing a crop of large cabbages, arranged in neat rows. Nearby a mosquito net hangs from a tree, creating...
Article > Story Namibia 
Re-connecting with Mother Earth
In the north of Colombia, in a region called La Mojana, three of the country’s most important rivers meet: the San Jorge, the Cauca and the Magdalena.
The junction forms part of one of the world’s largest wetlands, a...
Article > Story Colombia 
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