Search
FP221 - Rwanda Green Investment Facility (RGIF)
Rwanda is considered highly vulnerable to climate change in both mitigation and adaption aspects. Faced with multiple climate hazards including more intense rainfall, shifting seasonal temperatures, droughts, and...
Project > Private sector Rwanda
FP222 - Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP 2)
Despite being among the lowest contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), countries in sub-Saharan Africa have already experienced widespread loss and damage due to climate change. These impacts range from...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries
FP224 - Renewstable Barbados Project
Barbados currently relies on imported fossil fuels for around 95 per cent of its power generation. This dependence not only makes the country vulnerable to oil price fluctuations, but also contributes to nearly one-...
Project > Private sector Barbados
SAP031 - Marajó Resiliente: Enhancing the resilience of smallholders to climate change impacts through adapting and scaling up diversified agroforestry systems in the Marajo Archipelago of Brazil
High exposure of the Amazon delta and estuary to sea level rise due to climate anomalies, combined with limited socio-economic capacities and access to financial support by smallholders living along the Marajó...
Project > Public sector Brazil
SAP032 - Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility – LoCAL
Benin is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change with low levels of readiness and adaptive capacity. Climate change has already been felt in the country in recent decades, with increases in...
Project > Public sector Benin
SAP033 - Enhancing Climate Information Systems for Resilient Development in Sierra Leone
Rising sea level is expected to lead to a range of challenges for the 10 per cent of Freetown’s population that reside in high-risk climate areas. Shoreline recession, rising water tables, and waterborne diseases are...
Project > Public sector Sierra Leone
Countries step up ambition: Landmark boost to coffers of the world’s largest climate fund
The shared urgency of addressing climate change took an historic step forward today with 27 countries pledging to replenish the Green Climate Fund (GCF) by USD 9.78 billion equivalent for the next four years. The...
Article > Press release
US climate envoy supports “indispensable” GCF role during climate forum
US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has said the US will provide strong support to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) as an “indispensable player” in financing global endeavours to achieve the Paris Agreement...
Article > Press release
Green Climate Fund Board approves USD 500 million for new climate action, strengthens its Results Management Framework
Funds will help SIDS and LDCs adapt to climate change, catalyse private investment, and increase the support provided via Direct Access Entities
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board has allocated USD 501.1 million in GCF...
Article > Press release
GCF and partners sign project agreements for four transformative climate projects
Four key agreements for climate projects (Funding Activity Agreement; FAA) were signed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and its partners on the margins of GCF’s 34th Board meeting (17-20 October 2022). They include...
Article > News update
Supporting women’s local businesses and climate-friendly cookstoves in Kenya
About 15 per cent of the energy demand worldwide is met by classic biomass such as firewood, charcoal, and plant residues. Some 2.8 billion people cook their daily meals with such biomass. Kenya is no exception: more...
Article > Story Kenya
Procurement
Overview
The Green Climate Fund procures goods and services to support its operations and ultimately contribute to the fulfilment of its mandate. As an international organisation entrusted with public funds, GCF’s...
Basic page
GCF-2
GCF's second replenishment
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) – a critical element of the historic Paris Agreement – is the world’s largest climate fund mandated to support low emission, climate-resilient development pathways...
Basic page
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
The Green Climate Fund Board selects Yannick Glemarec as new Executive Director
The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has selected Yannick Glemarec to be its new Executive Director. The Board made the merit-based selection decision at its 22nd meeting at the GCF headquarters in Songdo, Republic...
Article > Press release
GCF appoints global facilitator for the replenishment process
To support the first GCF formal replenishment, the Fund appointed Johannes F. Linn, a renowned development economist and practitioner, as a global facilitator to help oversee and streamline the replenishment process. Mr...
Article > Press release
GCF, African Development Bank and Africa50 signal support for Desert to Power programme
The Green Climate Fund, the African Development Bank and Africa50 investment fund will collaborate to bring solar energy to the Sahel, in support of the priority set by countries in the region.
The three international...
Article > Press release
GCF workshop nurtures cross-border ideas
Indonesia can learn from Mongolia’s placement of women-led small businesses on the climate action frontline, according to the representative of a state-owned corporation at a Green Climate Fund workshop.
“As many of...
Article > Press release Indonesia Mongolia
GCF calls for private sector funding at key climate finance conference
The Green Climate Fund has launched a global campaign to tap private sector energies in tackling climate change during an international gathering of climate finance practitioners.
GCF announced it is offering USD 500...
Article > Press release
First GCF Structured Dialogue with Africa kicks off in Cape Town
The first-ever Green Climate Fund (GCF) Structured Dialogue with Africa has started in Cape Town, South Africa, with 200 participants convening over the next three days to accelerate their strategic engagement with the...
Article > Press release South Africa
Fifteenth meeting of the GCF Board (B.15)
The fifteenth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from Tuesday, 13 December to Thursday, 15 December, in Apia, Independent State of Samoa.
Event > Board meeting
Eleventh meeting of the GCF Board (B.11)
The eleventh meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from Monday, 2 November to Thursday, 5 November, in Livingstone, Zambia.
Event > Board meeting
Tenth meeting of the GCF Board (B.10)
The tenth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from Monday, 6 July to Thursday, 6 July, in Songdo, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Event > Board meeting
Ninth meeting of the GCF Board (B.09)
The ninth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from Tuesday, 24 March to Thursday, 26 March, in Songdo, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Event > Board meeting
Empowering direct access workshop 2017
GCF’s Empowering Direct Access workshop focused on supporting the Fund’s direct access entities (DAEs) – national and regional entities nominated for accreditation to the GCF by National Designated Authorities – to...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the)
GCF coordinates talks on adaptation finance at Bonn Climate Conference
The Green Climate Fund is coordinating a series of adaptation finance discussions with partners to share experience and knowledge on how to bolster the climate resilience of developing countries on the sidelines of the...
Article > Press release Germany
Twenty-fourth meeting of the GCF Board (B.24)
The twenty-fourth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held in Songdo, Republic of Korea, from 12-14 November 2019.
Event > Board meeting Republic of Korea (the)
GCF spearheads innovation drive for climate-resilient infrastructure at COP26
GCF is pioneering an innovative new approach to developing climate-resilient infrastructure, which is set to make a big splash at COP26 in Glasgow. This is a systemic approach, particularly applicable for islands and...
Article > Press release Ghana Jamaica Pages
Filter by type
Filter by Subtype
Filter by Country
Filter by date
Filter by Translation