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FP158 - Ecosystem-Based Adaptation and Mitigation in Botswana’s Communal Rangelands
While raising livestock forms the cultural and economic bedrocks of many communities in Botswana, this practice is becoming increasingly affected by climate change. With rising temperatures and more erratic rainfall,...
Project > Public sector Botswana
FP159 - PREFOREST CONGO - Project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from forests in five departments in the Republic of Congo
Despite having historically low deforestation rates, the Republic of Congo's vast areas of forests are now under increasing threat. A major cause is slash-and-burn farming to expand agriculture and meet the energy needs...
Project > Public sector Congo
FP161 - Building Regional Resilience through Strengthened Meteorological, Hydrological and Climate Services in the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) Member Countries
Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles, located in the Southwest Indian Ocean region, are highly vulnerable to climate change. Tropical cyclones are the most frequent catastrophic hazards in the region and have...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries
FP162 - The Africa Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme: Building the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate change impacts in 7 Sahelian Countries of the Great Green Wall (GGW)
The Sahel region of Western Africa is exceptionally vulnerable to climate change with worsening impacts of rising temperature, rainfall variability and extreme weather events. Reliance on rain-fed farming and...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries
FP163 - Sustainable Renewables Risk Mitigation Initiative (SRMI) Facility
Falling technology costs are making investment in renewable energy commercially viable in increasingly more countries. Nevertheless, global investment remains below the targets needed to meet the Paris Agreement....
Project > Public sector Multiple countries
FP187 - Ouémé Basin Climate-Resilience Initiative (OCRI) Benin
The local food systems of the upper and middle Ouémé Basin in Benin, the main food basket of the country, is highly vulnerable to climate change due to intense and frequent extreme weather events, mainly flash floods...
Project > Public sector Benin
FP188 - Climate Resilient Fishery Initiative for Livelihood Improvement in the Gambia (PROREFISH Gambia)
The fishery sector in Gambia is facing numerous challenges from climate change impacts. Communities across the country rely heavily on the Gambia river for their source of income, including artisanal fisheries which is...
Project > Public sector Gambia
SAP006 - Building resilience of communities living in landscapes threatened under climate change through an ecosystems-based adaptation approach
Seventy percent of Namibia’s population depends on natural resources to sustain their livelihoods.
The productivity of these natural resources is threatened by both climate and non-climate drivers, both which increase...
Project > Public sector Namibia
SAP020 - Climate resilient food security for farming households across the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)
The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is one of the most highly vulnerable Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific. Climate hazards are projected to severely threaten FSM communities' food security -...
Project > Public sector Micronesia (Federated States of)
SAP022 - Enhancing Multi-Hazard Early Warning System to increase resilience of Uzbekistan communities to climate change induced hazards
Climate change means that Uzbekistan is highly vulnerable to floods and mudslides. The most severe damage occurs in eastern flood-prone provinces, particularly Andijan and Ferghana.
This project will modernise...
Project > Public sector Uzbekistan
Green Climate Fund: USD 736 million for new projects and readiness strategy to accelerate climate action
The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) concluded its thirty-seventh meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia with major outcomes for climate action.
During the three-day meeting, the Board approved 15 proposals totaling USD 736....
Article > Press release
Oyun Sanjaasuren appointed as GCF Director of External Affairs
Dr Oyun Sanjaasuren has been appointed by the Green Climate Fund as its Director of External Affairs, effective from 9 July 2018.
Dr Oyun served as the first President of the United Nations Environment Assembly and is...
Article > Press release
USD 200 million pilot of additional modalities to enhance direct access under GCF
The Green Climate Fund has announced a pilot to strengthen countries’ decision-making authority over resources dedicated to supporting their climate change projects and programmes.
The pilot phase for additional...
Article > Press release
GCF/B.17/22/Add.02 - Report of the seventeenth meeting of the Board, 5 – 6 July 2017 - Addendum II: Sixth report of the GCF to the COP to the UNFCCC
In decision B.17/03, the Board requested the Secretariat to “finalize the ‘Sixth report of the Green Climate Fund to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’ as...
Board document > Meeting report
GCF/B.16/11 - Report on the status of the staffing of the Secretariat
At its twelfth meeting, the Board authorized the recruitment of new staff with a view to filling approximately 100 positions by December 2016, increasing to 140 by the end of 2017, in order to build the capacity of the...
Board document > Action item
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for India through UNDP
The government has started to place climate change at the core of its development plans, and in addition to putting in place adaptation measures. At national level, process is in place to implement plans and programmes...
Document > Approved readiness proposal India
Entity Support for South Africa through SANBI
SANBI is seeking readiness support from the GCF to: i) strengthen SANBI’s financial management and project management systems, noting the need to improve systems to deal with the anticipated GCF programme of work, and...
Document > Approved readiness proposal South Africa
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Viet Nam through the Ministry of Planning and Investment
In 2013, Viet Nam was officially chosen as one of the ten pilot countries to receive support from the GIZ Climate Finance Readiness Programme and MPI was the official partner for CF Ready. In 2014, this effort was...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Viet Nam
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Chile through the Chilean Development Cooperation Agency
The objective of this grant is to enhance country ownership and climate finance access during the early stages of the operationalization of the Green Climate Fund in Chile. In particular, it aims to develop the capacity...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chile
Concept Note template
The concept note presents a summary of a proposed project/programme to the GCF in order to receive feedback from the GCF Secretariat on whether the concept is aligned with the Fund's objectives, policies and investment...
Document > Template
GCF and UNIDO partnership agreement bolster climate-resilient industrial development
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has taken another step towards greening the industry sector, one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, by signing a partnership agreement with the United Nations Industrial...
Article > Press release
Building Capacity to Facilitate the Integration of the National Adaptation Planning Process in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is a landlocked country in East Africa, classified by the UN as LDC. With its diverse ecological landscapes, the country is exceedingly vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change and climate...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ethiopia
Developing a National Adaptation Planning Process in Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan is vulnerable to climate change due to the steady temperature rise and increasing water deficiency. While the changing climate is impacting the entire economy, the water sector that is suffering the most...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Turkmenistan
Gap assessment and action plan for the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) to meet the GCF requirements
Azerbaijan is highly vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change. The challenges of sustainable development and protection against climate change are essential in the country. In its first INDC (2017),...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Azerbaijan
Development of an effective governance framework for the implementation of the NDC in the health, food, and water security sectors in Ecuador
Ecuador is one of the countries most affected by the effects of climate change, since any increase in the intensity of climate threats such as droughts and floods implies imbalances in natural ecosystems, therefore,...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ecuador
Advancing a National Approach to Fire Management in Guatemala
In Guatemala, forest fires are an important source of GHG emissions. Between 2019-2020, Guatemala registered 1,398 forest fires that affected a total area of 78,129 hectares. Guatemala has identified the increase in...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Guatemala
Enhancing Uruguay’s technical capacities and pipeline robustness to access GCF funding
In the last years, the Government of Uruguay (GoU) continuously increased key stakeholders’ capacities and capabilities to engage with the GCF, with a Country Programme endorsed by the Secretariat in 2021, and advanced...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Uruguay
Establishing a National Adaptation Planning Process in Guinea- Bissau
Guinea-Bissau is one of the poorest and most fragile countries in the world with two out of three people living in poverty.
Multiple climate-induced risks exacerbate extensive, pervasive development challenges. These...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Guinea-Bissau
Republic of Nauru National Adaptation Planning – Phase One
Climate change is an immediate and pressing reality in the Republic of Nauru. The geography, isolation, environmental degradation and limited natural resources make Nauru particularly vulnerable to the current and...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Nauru
GCF/B.34/Inf.14 - Report on the execution of the 2022 administrative budget of GCF
This document provides information on the execution of the GCF 2022 administrative budget for the period from 1 January to 31 August 2022 and the budget approved for the second performance review of GCF for the period...
Board document > Information Pages
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