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FP301 - Responsible Commodities Facility - Deforestation and Conversion Free: Finance for soy production in the Cerrado, Brazil (RCF-DCF Project)
Brazil’s Cerrado, one of the world’s most biodiverse savanna ecosystems and a critical carbon sink, is facing increasing pressure from agricultural expansion, particularly soy production. Soy farmland expanded from 13...
Project > Private sector Brazil 
JS Bank Limited (Pakistan)
JS Bank Limited (JS Bank) is a national and private sector entity headquartered in Pakistan, which provides microfinance, project finance and commercial banking and services to consumers, small and medium-sized...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), Direct (National) Pakistan
XacBank JSC (Mongolia)
XacBank JSC (XacBank), is a national private sector entity in Mongolia. The entity serves clients from individuals and micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises to Mongolia’s largest corporations with a full spectrum...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), Direct (National) Mongolia
Fonds National pour L’Environnement
The National Fund for Environment and Climate (FNEC) of Benin is a public institution with a legal personality and financial autonomy that comes under the remit of the Ministry of Living Environment and Sustainable...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), Direct (National) Benin
Protected Areas Conservation Trust
The Protected Areas Conservation Trust (PACT) is a national entity that was established by the Government of Belize to encourage and promote, for the benefit and enjoyment of the present and future generations of the...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), Direct (National) Belize
BNP Paribas S.A.
BNP Paribas S.A. (BNP Paribas) is an international entity based in France that operates globally, and that provides and carries out investment services and banking transactions globally through various financial...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), International France
Policies and strategies
Policies and strategies
As part of its mandate, the GCF Board approves specific operational policies and guidelines, including for programming, project cycle, administration, and financial management. The Board also...
Basic page > Policy map
Appeals
Overview
Information disclosure requests that have been denied may be appealed. An Information Appeals Panel (IAP) was established by the Board to consider appeals from requesters.
The IAP is composed of the three heads...
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European Investment Bank and Green Climate Fund sign partnership agreement
The European Investment Bank and the Green Climate Fund have signed an Accreditation Master Agreement, allowing them to work together to finance climate action in developing countries.
The agreement was signed at EIB’s...
Article > Press release 
Women key agents for tackling climate change
GCF’s direct access country partners take part in UN Women training session on women’s empowerment to scale up climate action
The “why” and “how” of mainstreaming women’s empowerment in the context of climate change...
Article > Press release 
Twenty-first meeting of the GCF Board (B.21)
The twenty-first meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from Wednesday, 17 October to Saturday, 20 October, in Manama, Bahrain.
Event > Board meeting 
Twentieth meeting of the GCF Board (B.20)
The twentieth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from Sunday, 1 July to Wednesday, 4 July, in Songdo, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Event > Board meeting 
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 
Seventeenth meeting of the GCF Board (B.17)
The seventeeth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from Wednesday, 5 July to Thursday, 6 July, in Songdo, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Event > Board meeting 
Sixteenth meeting of the GCF Board (B.16)
The sixteenth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from Tuesday, 4 April to Thursday, 6 April, in Songdo, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Event > Board meeting 
Twelfth meeting of the GCF Board (B.12)
The twelfth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from Tuesday, 8 March to Thursday, 10 March, in Songdo, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Event > Board meeting 
Green Climate Fund and the International Development Finance Club signs a Statement of Partnership to join forces in fighting climate change
The International Development Finance Club (IDFC), the international network of leading national and regional development banks, and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) have signed a Partnership Statement to become strategic...
Article > Press release 
GCF forum explores how to stem climate impact on world food security
The increasing severity of climate effects threatens to halt progress around the world in combatting a variety of development goals. That is why increasing flows of finance need to be directed towards bolstering food...
Article > Press release 
Development of Guyana’s National Climate Finance Strategy, MRV System and Project Pipeline to Support NDC Implementation
Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) was launched in 2009 and later updated in 2013 as the document to guide Guyana’s economic development at the same time addressing climate change, other documents has been...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Guyana
Policies: Project approval
Project approval
The consideration and approval of funding proposals by the GCF is undertaken through a designated Project Approval Process. Policies under this category establish the key steps, requirements,...
Basic page > Policy map
GCF approves Project Preparation Facility grant to establish Barbados green bank
The Blue-Green Investment Corporation (BGIC), the first green bank in the Caribbean, was approved by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to receive support from GCF's Project Preparation Facility (PPF), a major step in the...
Article > Press release Barbados 
Strengthening the climate resilience of Mauritania’s vulnerable WASH sector through enhanced capacity, collaboration and knowledge on climate change
The overarching objective of the proposed readiness proposal is to increase Mauritania’s technical capacities to undertake climate risk and vulnerability analysis of WASH services, including the monitoring of...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Mauritania
Re-Gain: Scaling solutions for food loss in Africa
According to the FAO, 30%1 of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted along the supply chain every year. In Africa, the losses are even higher, ranging between 30% and 50%. This equates to 1.3 billion2...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), is an international access entity based in Austria. It is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that promotes and leads international efforts on...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), International Austria
European Investment Bank
The European Investment Bank (EIB) headquartered in Luxembourg, is an international financial entity whose main objective in developing countries is to provide finance and expertise for sound and sustainable investment...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), International Luxembourg
Environmental Projects Implementation Unit, State Agency of the Ministry of Environment, Armenia
The Environmental Project Implementation Unit of the State Agency of the Ministry of Nature Protection of the Republic of Armenia (EPIU) is a national entity established by the government of the Republic of Armenia with...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), Direct (National) Armenia
Green Climate Fund Board meeting sets stage for successful replenishment
The 22nd meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board ended today, with a raft of decisions to strengthen GCF for its first replenishment.
Following the selection of Yannick Glemarec as its new Executive Director at...
Article > Press release 
GCF helps XacBank become first Mongolian bank to finance large-scale solar
XacBank has become Mongolia’s first private bank to fund the completion of a large-scale, solar plant in a financing partnership with the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
The 10MWh solar photovoltaic (PV) plant, completed at...
Article > Press release Mongolia 
Entity support for Honduras through UNEP
There are a variety of social and environmental safeguards frameworks applicable to current climate change projects and programs in Honduras , including the Cancun Safeguards for REDD+, World Bank Environmental and...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Honduras
Eighth meeting of the GCF Board (B.08)
The eighth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from Tuesday, 14 October to Friday, 17 October, in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Event > Board meeting