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Catalysing private finance to maximize mitigation and adaptation impacts. Among China’s provinces, Shandong has the highest energy consumption and is one of the most carbon-intensive - driven by its high use of coal as...

Increasing carbon sequestration in Kyrgyzstan by supporting climate investments in forests and rangelands. In Kyrgyzstan, livestock is the most important source of income, the primary source of nutrition, and a...

Improving forest and land-use management in order to implement REDD+ in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. As a landlocked Least Developed Country, Lao PDR is highly vulnerable to climate change. Its economy is...

Enhancing the resilience of ecosystems and vulnerable communities by adopting climate-resilient land-use practices. The Churia region of Nepal has a vital role in maintaining the ecosystem of the heavily populated...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

“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’...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...