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Cook Islands: First and fastest Green Climate Fund country project
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...
Article > Press release Cook Islands 
Building climate resilient economies: water solutions in Grenada’s agriculture and tourism sectors
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...
Article > Story Grenada 
Green Climate Fund and Meridiam unveil ambition and opportunities for impactful climate investments
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....
Article > Press release 
Pioneering Barbados water project kick starts
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...
Article > Press release Barbados 
GCF, CABEI, and the European Union unite to finance Costa Rica’s GAM electric train
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,...
Article > News update Costa Rica CABEI 
Record finance and increased impact: GCF delivers for ‘implementation COP’ as it marks 10 years of climate action
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...
Article > Press release 
Landmark project improved farmers’ livelihoods and protected forests in Madagascar, new report finds
A Green Climate Fund-financed agricultural resilience project in one of the world’s most climate-stressed countries increased crop production and reduced deforestation, a new evaluation report released today has found...
Article > Press release Madagascar 
Decoding climate communication: stories to save the world
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...
Article > News update 
GCF launches new website ahead of Board meeting
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....
Article > Press release 
GCF/B.09/02 - Work Plan 2015
The year 2015 represents a landmark in multilateral efforts to address climate change as the world works towards a global agreement that can lead to enhanced ambition and strengthened action while standing the test of...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.10/Inf.10 - Brief Guideline on the Application of the Case-by-case Provisions in the Financial Terms and Conditions of the Fund’s Instruments
At its fifth meeting, the Board of the Green Climate Fund adopted a set of guiding principles and factors for determining terms of financial instruments, as outlined in decision B.05/07. These guiding principles and...
Board document > Information
Summary of outcomes of the 21st meeting of the GCF Board
The 21st meeting of the GCF Board (B.21) took place from 17-20 October 2018 in Manama, the Kingdom of Bahrain. Mr. Lennart Båge and Mr. Paul Oquist presided over B.21 as elected Co-Chairs of the Board for 2018....
Document > Summary of outcomes of the meeting of the GCF Board
Establishing and strengthening the National Designated Authority and Focal Point, developing strategic framework for engagement with the GCF, including preparation of country program and initial pipelines of programs and projects
This initiative will help with putting in place an institutional mechanism to facilitate effective coordination of activities and management of country’s GCF project portfolio. In this regard, equipment of NDA...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cameroon IUCN
GCF addresses climate farming challenges in expert panel
GCF co-organised a consultation and technical meeting on climate change, agriculture and food systems with Global Affairs Canada and the International Development Research Center.
Participants from governments,...
Article > Press release Canada 
Technical guidance and support to conduct a technology needs assessment and a technology action plan for Equatorial Guinea
The objective of this assistance is to develop aTNAto identify and prioritize technology transfer and diffusion for climate change mitigation and adaptation in key sectors in Equatorial Guinea. There are several sectors...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Equatorial Guinea
Making Nigeria’s Cross River State Investment Ready for REDD+
Cross River State (CRS) has made significant strides towards REDD+ readiness. The State has developed (1) a CRS REDD+ Strategy; (2) submitted a sub-national forest reference emission level (FREL) to the UNFCCC, (3)...
Document > Concept note Nigeria UNDP
Establishment and operationalization of National Financing Vehicle in Dominica
The proposed readiness delivers the framework, for the establishment, operationalization and capitalization of a National Financing Vehicle (NFV) in Dominica and delivers demand-led capacity building training to state...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Dominica GGGI
International Financial Institutions Knowledge Management Community of Practice annual meeting
The Green Climate Fund (GCF)’s Head of Knowledge and Change Management, George Zedginidze, is the 2021 chair of the International Financial Institutions Knowledge Management Community of Practice. As such, GCF is proud...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Strategic Actions for advancing climate action in CARICOM Member States
Climate change poses an existential threat to countries of the Caribbean region. Primarily, comprised of small islands and low-lying coastal developing states (SIDS), the Caribbean region is considered amongst the most...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Jamaica CCCCC
Strengthening the capacities of national and regional development banks, which are members of the International Development Finance Club (IDFC), to access GCF resources
National and regional development banks have a huge potential to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate, and to generate green and climate - public and private - finance at scale to address the...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries AFD
Leveraging the Private Sector for Increased Climate Investment and Strengthened Partnerships in the West Asia Region
This proposal seeks to improve the enabling environment for private-sector partners in climate finance in the region. Specifically, the proposal will focus on private sector direct access applicants, potential future...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries IsBD
Strengthen the capacitiesof sub-national authorities and key actors in the water sector to adapt to climate change in the Tuban delta
Yemen has become increasingly vulnerable to water scarcity / declining water resources due to a combination of climate change (esp. related to precipitation and drought patters), crisis impacts (esp. damages, pollution...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Yemen
Building capacity of regional direct access entity and national designated authorities to foster climate action in the Pacific
As one of the few main Direct Access Entities (DAE) in the Pacific region, SPC has been working intensively since 2019 with GCF NDAs in Pacific Small Island Developing States on accessing GCF resources and developing...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Vanuatu SPC
Advancing a Regional Approach to the Green Hydrogen Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean
The use of green hydrogen as an energy vector to support countries' decarbonization pathways is a genuinely new vision that was endorsed by many countries at the last Conference of Parties (COP26) meeting. It is...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries UNEP
Strengthening ECOWAS institutional capacities and Member States' access to climate finance to support the implementation of the agriculture sectoral priorities of the ECOWAS Regional Climate Strategy
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
Previous Readiness Result Management Framework
The Readiness Result Management Framework (RRMF) is the primary tool to guide Readiness results-based interventions, and through which GCF tracks and measures the results of the Readiness Programme in a consistent and...
Document > Publication, Guides
Strengthening the institutional capacities of the African Island States Climate Commission (AISCC) member states to manage climate risks and bolster resilience - RESIslands Project
Cabo Verde, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Mauritius, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles and Tanzania (Zanzibar) are the member states the of the African Island States Climate Commission (AISCC)....
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
Advancing carbon market readiness in Mongolia
Mongolia is committed to accelerating its transition to a low-emission, climate-resilient development pathway by tackling critical barriers to mobilizing financial resources and implementing transformative climate...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Mongolia UNDP
Iran’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) for priority sectors
This NAP Readiness proposal seeks to create five sector-specific adaptation plans aimed at bolstering the government's capacity to guide Iran's adaptation efforts.
The primary objective of this proposal is to ensure...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Iran (Islamic Republic of) FAO
FP002 - Scaling up the use of Modernized Climate information and Early Warning Systems in Malawi
Protecting lives and livelihoods in Malawi from climate-related disasters by providing early warning weather and climate information systems and improving the resilience of vulnerable communities.
Malawi faces more...
Project > Public sector Malawi UNDP 