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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,...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board has closed its twenty-eighth meeting, approving 15 new climate projects totaling USD 7.5 billion including USD 1.2 billion in GCF funding and USD 6.3 billion in co-financing, for low-...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has launched a new report on how global finance can be aligned with sustainable development in order to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and deliver a COVID-19 economic recovery. ...

Maintaining a 1.5 degrees Celsius global guardrail will require a fourfold increase of annual clean power investments by 2030, with the bulk of upscaled financing needed in developing and emerging economies....

A GCF event at COP26 brought together a panel of international and national organisations, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and young professionals to boost capacity in climate early warning systems in Small Island...

When asked to think about natural carbon sinks, what’s the first image that comes to mind? Forests, right? Although their role is hugely significant, the less thought of wetlands are equally, and in many cases, more...

At its thirty-third meeting, the GCF Board decided to hold its thirty-fourth meeting (B.34) from 17 to 20 October 2022 and its thirty-fifth meeting (B.35) from 13 to 16 March 2023. Towards this end, the timelines and...

The Government of Indonesia, with the support of Green Climate Fund, Conservation International, and Konservasi Indonesia, announced a new model for ocean conservation and fisheries management in Indonesia. The model,...

At its thirty-fifth meeting, the GCF Board confirmed to hold its thirty-sixth meeting (B.36) from 10 to 13 July 2023. Towards this end, the timelines and key time periods for B.36 are presented below.   Key...

A group of 30 young people in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala, leverages sustainable agriculture and indigenous knowledge to help the local community adapt to climate change. The changing climate is drastically affecting...

At its thirty-sixth meeting, the GCF Board confirmed to hold its thirty-seventh meeting (B.37) from 23 to 25 October 2023. Towards this end, the timelines and key time periods for B.37 are presented below.   Key...

Mogadishu, Somalia – The Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) Executive Director, Mafalda Duarte headed the first-ever GCF delegation to Somalia, announcing an accelerated programme of climate action investment – anticipated at...

Five project agreements were signed at the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) 38th Board meeting, which took place on 4-7 March in Kigali, Rwanda. Eleven projects were approved at the first Board meeting of the year, totaling...

Incheon, Republic of Korea – The first single-country project in the Cook Islands took 20 days from GCF Board approval to the first disbursement of funding. The USD 13.4 million project, of which USD 12.5 million is...

Grenada, an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea has a population of just over 100,000 who largely depend on surface water and rainwater harvesting for its potable water needs. However, climate...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Meridiam convened a joint Investor Forum in Paris in early October to identify opportunities to mobilise and scale up capital for more ambitious climate action in developing countries....

The Green Climate Fund and the Government of Barbados today announced that a groundbreaking project that leverages an innovative financing model to scale up climate action and simultaneously avoid increasing the burden...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), and the European Union, through its Global Gateway strategy, have come together to fully finance the 'Construction, Equipment,...

Belém, Brazil - On the opening day of COP30, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) heralded a record programming year and greater climate impact as it marked the tenth anniversary of its operations. “2025 is the year where we...

On 13 November at COP29, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), in collaboration with BBC Media Action, the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), hosted Decoding climate...

On the occasion of its 11th Board meeting in Zambia, the Green Climate Fund has launched a new website, redesigned from the ground up. With a focus on creating an intuitive and engaging user experience, greenclimate....