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FP234 - Tonga Coastal Resilience
Tonga is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, including increases in temperature and precipitation, more intense tropical cyclones, and rising sea levels. Extreme events such as Tropical Cyclones Ian in 2014,...
Project > Public sector Tonga UNDP 
FP140 - High Impact Programme for the Corporate Sector
Emissions from industry account for about 30 percent of total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. They arise mainly from the extraction of primary materials and materials processing for manufacturing and construction...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries EBRD 
FP141 - Improving Adaptive Capacity and Risk Management of Rural communities in Mongolia
The impacts of a drastically warming planet are already being felt in Mongolia, where average temperatures have increased by 2.1 °C over the past 70 years. The country’s vast pastureland and livestock production are ...
Project > Public sector Mongolia UNDP 
FP143 - Planting Climate Resilience in Rural Communities of the Northeast (PCRP)
The semi-arid region of Northeast Brazil has been experiencing periodic droughts and chronic water scarcity. The overall drought frequency, intensity and severity have increased over the past 36 years. The region is...
Project > Public sector Brazil IFAD 
FP144 - Costa Rica REDD-plus Results-Based Payments for 2014 and 2015
Recognising Costa Rica’s REDD+ results for the years 2014, and 2015.
During these two years, Costa Rica has reduced 14.08 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂eq) in emissions, through reducing...
Project > Public sector Costa Rica UNDP 
SAP018 - Enhancing Climate Information Systems for Resilient Development in Liberia (Liberia CIS)
Liberia currently lacks the capacity to prepare for and respond to climate-related extreme events. This is due to inadequate capacity to process climate data and to plan based on short-term and medium-term weather...
Project > Public sector Liberia AfDB 
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 China_CDM_Fund 
Green Climate Fund Board maintains climate momentum in midst of COVID-19 by approving USD 878.8 million of new funds
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) continues empowering developing countries to take climate action in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic with its allocation of USD 878.8 million in new financing at its 26th Board meeting,...
Article > Press release 
Barbados, Belize PMs hail ‘essential’ GCF role in Caribbean
Caribbean leaders warned the region is facing the twin threats of climate change and COVID-19 during the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF's) Regional Dialogue with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
GCF Executive Director...
Article > Press release 
GCF convenes partners to bolster climate action amid global uncertainty
GCF will host two major conferences next week, bringing together Ministers and national leaders, Chief Executives and business leaders and a range of leading figures from the public and private sectors to inform GCF...
Article > News update 
Pathways to dairy net zero: Promoting low carbon and climate resilient livestock in East Africa
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) in partnership with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Global Dairy Platform (GDP) approved USD 3.5 million of...
Article > Press release 
Keynote speech by ED a.i.
Good morning, it’s a pleasure to be here today. I thank the Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education, ESCAP, and Incheon East Asia Global Education Institute for their invitation.
COP27 called for a global...
Article > Speech
Turning down the heat
In Bangladesh, over 33 million children are forced to stay home for days as the sweltering heat makes school too dangerous. “I went to the school with my 13-year-old daughter. She was happy her school was open. But I...
Article > Story Bangladesh WorldBank 
High-level Pledging Conference for GCF's second replenishment (GCF-2)
The High-Level Pledging Conference is a key opportunity to demonstrate global commitment to achieve our collective climate ambitions. GCF is a critical element of the climate finance architecture, as part of the...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
ED opening remarks
Your Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies, and gentlemen,
Please allow me to welcome you to this 2022 GCF Global Programming Conference. I would like also to offer a warm welcome to those joining us online and to...
Article > Speech 
Nineteenth meeting of the GCF Board (B.19)
The nineteenth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from Monday, 26 February to Thursday, 1 March, in Songdo, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Event > Board meeting 
Enhancing access to climate finance for small island developing states
Small island developing states (SIDS) are an exceptionally heterogeneous group of countries. But they all have one thing in common: they are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. SIDS face numerous climate...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
GCF helps Bhutan progress climate plans
A Green Climate Fund (GCF) delegation began a visit to the Kingdom of Bhutan today to explore how GCF can help the country’s ambitious climate change plans.
Maintaining a minimum of 60 percent of its land under forest...
Article > Press release Bhutan 
GCF lays climate finance groundwork in Africa and the Pacific
The Green Climate Fund’s latest expansion of assistance to countries preparing to implement climate finance is targeting Africa and the Pacific.
GCF has provided USD 700,000 to the Ministry of Natural Resources of...
Article > Press release Mauritania Rwanda MOE_Rwanda 
Growing enthusiasm buoys second day of GCF’s Asian Dialogue
Signs of growing ambition in Asian countries to tackle climate change have laid the groundwork for the second day of GCF’s regional event to boost climate finance.
Participants at GCF’s Structured Dialogue on Asia...
Article > Press release Indonesia 
GCF/B.21/10/Add.21/Rev.01 - Consideration of funding proposals – Addendum XXI: Funding proposal package for FP099
This addendum contains the following three parts:
A funding proposal summary titled “Climate Investor One” submitted by Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V. (FMO)
No-objection letters...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.21/10/Add.37 - Consideration of funding proposals – Addendum XXXVII Funding proposal package for SAP004
This addendum contains the following six parts:
A funding proposal summary titled “Energy Efficient Consumption Loan Programme” submitted by XacBank LLC;
No-objection letter issued by the national designated...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.21/10/Add.19 - Consideration of funding proposals – Addendum XIX Funding proposal package for FP097
This addendum contains the following three parts:
A funding proposal summary titled “Productive Investment Initiative for Adaptation to Climate Change (CAMBio II)” submitted by the Central American Bank for Economic...
Board document > Action item
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
Agreement between the Republic of Korea and the Green Climate Fund concerning the Headquarters of the Green Climate Fund
The primary objectives of this Headquarters Agreement are to set out the legal status of the Fund and of the persons associated with it, in addition to the provisions of the Governing Instrument, to allow the Fund to...
Document > Agreement
Canada announces contribution to Green Climate Fund
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) welcomes Canada’s announcement it will contribute CAD 300 million to the Green Climate Fund. The announcement was made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the recently concluded G7...
Article > Press release Canada 
Building Resilience of Vulnerable Communities to Climate Variability in Rwanda’s Congo Nile Divide Through Forest and Landscape Restoration
The Congo Nile Divide (CND) region of Rwanda is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Climate change impacts, amplified by human and environmental stressors, have degraded forests, increasing risks to the country’s...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Rwanda MOE_Rwanda
Freetown WASH and Aquatic Environment Revamping Program
The proposed GCF Project, estimated at USD 50 million, will mainstream climate change and variability considerations into the Freetown WASH and Aquatic Environment Revamping Program. Climate variability and change pose...
Document > Concept note Sierra Leone AfDB
Toward Risk-Aware and Climate-resilienT communities (TRACT) - Strengthening climate services and impact-based multi-hazard early warning in Maldives
The small size, low elevation and heavy dependence on natural resources for its social and economic security make the Maldives highly vulnerable to climate change impacts and climate-related hazards.5 The country’s...
Document > Concept note Maldives UNEP