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Strengthening the adaptive capacity of coastal communities, especially women, to cope with the impacts of climate-induced salinity on their livelihoods and water security. The coastal belt of Bangladesh is vulnerable...

Removing barriers in the development of a sustainable market for the adoption of improved cook stoves in Bangladesh. About 66 percent of Bangladesh' population live in rural areas, where women predominantly do the...

Strengthening the climate resilience of Burkina Faso by enhancing and optimizing the supply and demand side of climate information systems. One of the least developed countries in Africa, Burkina Faso is highly...

The Programme will provide effective climate change mitigation outcome through investing in sustainable plantation forestry projects in emerging forestry markets of Latin America and Sub Saharan Africa, while also...

Water security is a key issue for Kenya.  The country has limited freshwater and faces chronic water scarcity and high rainfall variability, which are worsened by climate change impacts.  The Athi River Catchment is the...

Climate change has adversely affected Niger’s agriculture, which is the country’s main income source and livelihood for most of the population.  Irregular rainfall, short rainy seasons, droughts, flooding and lack of...

As global temperatures increase and the demand for cooling rises, so do the emission levels of greenhouse and fluorinated gases, which have a very high global warming potential.  Reports cite that at 1.5°C of warming –...

The first Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting of 2018 concluded today after approving 23 projects, valued together at USD 1,093.5 million of GCF funding. The new approvals bring the GCF portfolio to a total of 76...

The finalists of the first GCF Green Champion Awards have been selected from a total pool of 280 nominees, and the final results will be announced at the sidelines of COP25 in Madrid, Spain. The GCF Green Champions...

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...

At the UN Climate Ambition Summit today in New York, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) announced the development of a large-scale, collaborative push to establish life-saving Early Warning Systems in some of the world...

The Conference of Parties (COP) is an important platform for the Green Climate Fund (GCF), providing an opportunity for the Fund to interact with countries, contributors, stakeholders and partners. And COP29 was no...

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...

GCF releases USD 86.7 million for Kazakhstan project with EBRD, building on an existing project partnership in Egypt. The transition to low-emission, renewable energy is crucial if we are to meet the Paris Agreement’s...

The Board of the Green Climate Fund has taken a series of policy decisions designed to strengthen its partnerships and grow its project pipeline in 2016. The decisions, taken at the Board’s twelfth meeting (B.12),...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is now financing climate action in over 100 developing countries after the final Board meeting of 2019 approved 13 new projects. The 24th Board meeting closed today after allocating USD 407...

Efforts to protect ecosystems must also take into account global development goals intended to lift people out of poverty. A difficult past has taught young Ugandan beekeeper Shildah Nabimanya the importance of...

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,...