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Gender assessment for FP224: Renewstable Barbados Project
This gender assessment for FP224: Renewstable Barbados Project seeks to present the issues, gaps and problems that should be addressed by gender-responsive project interventions.
Document > Gender assessment Barbados
Saint Lucia Country Programme
This country programme by Saint Lucia presents the country’s climate change priorities, including a pipeline of projects that the country would like to develop with GCF.
Document > Country programme Saint Lucia 
Information requests and responses
... IDP324 FP114, FP127, FP159, SAP015: project documents 24 Feb 25 Feb Granted IDP323 Funding opportunities 24 Feb 25 Feb Granted IDP322 Funding opportunities 23 Feb 25 Feb Granted IDP321 FP084: information, current ...
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Virtual Stakeholder Consultation on the topic of the development of the GCF’s ESS - Stage 1: scoping
The mission of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is to promote the paradigm shift towards low-emission and climate-resilient development pathways by providing support to developing countries to limit or reduce their...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Algeria outlines climate action ahead of COP 21
During a one-day visit to the Algerian capital, the Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund, Héla Cheikhrouhou, interacted with government officials to learn first hand about the country’s climate action portfolio...
Article > Press release Algeria 
International day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
November 25 is the international day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
So what have we achieved? Has the incidence of violence against women gone down, is the world today better than it was last year,...
Article > Statement 
GCF IRMF webinar series for AEs: revised FP template and GCF support to DAEs for IRMF implementation
The Integrated Results Management Framework (IRMF) webinar series for Accredited Entities (AEs) intends to disseminate information about the updated version of the funding proposal template which reflects the...
Event > Webinar 
GCF expands private sector reach with IFC agreement
The Green Climate Fund has signed an agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) that will enable IFC to pool its resources with those of more than 40 governments that have contributed about USD 10...
Article > Press release 
GCF sets funding proposal schedule
The Green Climate Fund has set the indicative timeline for its consideration of funding proposals for the next two GCF Board meetings. The indicative timeline lists the key dates leading to the Board meetings, where the...
Article > Press release 
New General Counsel joins Green Climate Fund
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is pleased to announce the arrival of Raul Herrera who will act as the Fund’s interim General Counsel, effective 28 June.
An international expert in corporate and financial transactions, Mr...
Article > Press release 
Acumen and GCF sign agreement to implement its first approved project proposal, bringing household solar energy to East Africa
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Acumen Fund today signed a Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) enabling the disbursement of funds to implement the first approved project proposal from Acumen (a private sector accredited...
Article > Press release Multiple countries 
Expanding GCF’s reach in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
On the sidelines of the Eighth Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference in Batumi, Georgia, country representatives from Eastern Europe and Central Asia participated in a Green Climate Fund (GCF) briefing to...
Article > Press release Georgia 
Viet Nam pledges $1 million to GCF at COP 21
Viet Nam has pledged a contribution to the Green Climate Fund at the Paris COP 21 talks, further broadening the base of support to the Fund. 43 states have now pledged support to the Fund, including both developed and...
Article > Press release Viet Nam 
GCF agreement with FAO helps climate proof agriculture in Latin America
Efforts to enhance Latin American farmers’ climate resilience has received a boost with the signing of an agreement between the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The signing...
Article > Press release 
GCF/B.02-12/02 - Additional Rules of Procedure of the Board
During its first meeting on 23‐25 August 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland, the Board discussed document GCF/B.01‐12/02 Additional Rules of Procedure of the Board. In this context, a number of questions were raised, including...
Board document > Action item
Last GCF Board meeting of 2019 begins today
The 24th Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting opens today to consider expanding the Fund’s support for climate action beyond the 99 developing countries currently receiving GCF climate finance.
The three-day meeting...
Article > Press release 
Improving farmers’ climate resilience and water use efficiency
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) signed today a funding agreement with the French Development Agency, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), to finance the Water Banking and Adaptation of Agriculture to Climate Change...
Article > Press release State of Palestine 
National framework for leapfrogging to Energy Efficient Appliances and Equipment in Zambia (Refrigerators and Distribution Transformers) through regulatory and financing mechanism
This readiness proposal will result in Zambia having a regulatory framework and an agreed MEPS and labelling scheme for Refrigerators and Distribution transformers. This would be legislated through a notification by the...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Zambia
Germany makes record EUR 2 billion pledge to Green Climate Fund
The Green Climate Fund commends and strongly welcomes the announcement by Germany that it will contribute EUR 2 billion to the Fund’s second replenishment (GCF-2).
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made the announcement...
Article > Press release 
Readiness Support for the Implementation of the IRMF for DAE (Fast-Track)
The proposed project is a scaling up of the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) initiative launched by the Government of Benin with UNCDF support in 2014. This initiative was originally implemented in three...
Document > Approved readiness proposal
Executive Director’s remarks
Nobody questions the fact that conflict is a critical impediment to eradicating poverty and ensuring development and prosperity. Because of this, it should be of great concern to all of us to observe that the number of...
Article > Speech
FP170 - Enhancing climate resilience in Thailand through effective water management and sustainable agriculture
In the Chao Phraya basin in Thailand, significant increases in the frequency of heavy rains are predicted as a result of climate change – in turn increasing the risk of severe floods. But alongside the risk of flooding...
Project > Public sector Thailand 
FP284 - Amazonia Viva Program
The Amazon biome is a vital global climate regulator. It is home to 47 million people, including 2.2 million Indigenous Peoples. The region is threatened by rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, extreme weather, and...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries 
SAP058 - Local Governments and Climate Change III (LGCC-3)
Cambodia faces increasingly frequent and severe climate hazards, with its vulnerability to climate change exacerbated by its location, weak governance and heavy reliance on climate-sensitive activities like agriculture...
Project > Public sector Cambodia 
SAP066 - SCALE – Strengthening Chad’s Adaptation for Land, Ecosystems and smallholders
Chad is ranked the most climate-vulnerable country in the world by the ND-GAIN country index, facing extreme drought, desertification, flash flooding, and increasingly erratic rainfall. These hazards pose a severe...
Project > Public sector Chad 
FP037 - Integrated Flood Management to Enhance Climate Resilience of the Vaisigano River Catchment in Samoa
Helping climate proof Samoa’s capital.
Samoa’s economy and its people’s livelihoods have been heavily impacted by increasingly severe tropical storms. For instance, the total economic impact of Cyclone Evan which hit...
Project > Public sector Samoa 
GCF Brings Clean Energy to Off-Grid Areas of Burkina Faso
Due to Burkina Faso’s dependence on fossil fuels, the country has one of the highest electricity tariff rates in West Africa. Moreover, only 3 percent of its rural areas are electrified. In 2017, the Government of...
Article > Press release Burkina Faso 
Acumen Fund formalises relationship with GCF, its partner for East African distributed solar power
Acumen Fund, Inc., the not-for-profit global investment fund, has become the first GCF private sector accredited entity to formalise its relationship with the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Acumen Fund has signed an...
Article > Press release 
Mali NDA signs grant agreement during visit to GCF headquarters
The National Designated Authority (NDA) of the government of Mali visited the Green Climate Fund headquarters in Songdo today to sign its grant agreement with the Fund under GCF’s Readiness and Preparatory Support...
Article > Press release Mali 