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GCF/B.21/18 - Investment criteria indicators
This document outlines the proposal by the Secretariat on the investment criteria indicators. It builds on a two-phase process led by the Investment Committee to produce indicative minimum benchmarks with support from...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.21/Inf.01 - An integrated approach to addressing policy gaps to ensure climate impact: an overview of policies related to the consideration of funding proposals
This document provides an overview of the policy papers to be presented to the Board at its twenty-first and subsequent meetings, considers their interlinkages, and explains how they are related to the integrated policy...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.20/Inf.05 - Status of the initial resource mobilization process
This document provides an update for the Board on the initial resource mobilization process, including the status of signing contribution agreements/arrangements; the current commitment authority highlighting the...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.19/07 - 2018 Work Plan and Budget and Three-year Rolling Work Plan of the Independent Evaluation Unit
This document summarizes key elements of the work plan and budget of the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) for 2018. This document contains three main elements that were promised at B.16: (1) Key elements of the IEU’s...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.08/30 - Travel Policy
The Secretariat recognizes that travellers on official business act in the best interest of the Fund. However, in doing so, travellers should be prudent and cost‐conscious with respect to business travel practices and...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.10/Inf.06 - Progress Report on the Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme
The readiness programme is a unique feature of the Fund. It seeks to put developing countries in the driver’s seat when accessing and using the resources that will be available through the Fund, and to help ensure...
Board document > Information
Annual portfolio performance report 2017
The first GCF Annual Portfolio Performance Report (PPR) covers the period up to end of 2017. At the time of publishing this report, GCF had 40 projects under implementation, totalling over USD 1.6 billion of GCF...
Document > Operational document
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP090: Tonga Renewable Energy Project under the Pacific Islands Renewable Energy Investment Program
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP090: Tonga Renewable Energy Project under the Pacific Islands Renewable Energy Investment Program. Project and programme...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Tonga ADB
Gender action plan for FP024: Enpower to Adapt: Creating Climate-Change Resilient Livelihoods through Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia
This document outlines the gender action plan for project FP024: Enpower to Adapt: Creating Climate-Change Resilient Livelihoods through Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia. Gender action...
Document > Gender action plan Namibia EIF
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP012: Africa Hydromet Program – Strengthening Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mali Country Project
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP012: Africa Hydromet Program – Strengthening Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mali Country Project. Project and...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Mali WorldBank
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP025: GCF-EBRD SEFF Co-financing Programme
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP025: GCF-EBRD SEFF Co-financing Programme. Project and programme funding proposals that have environmental or social impacts...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Multiple countries EBRD
Gender action plan for FP063: Promoting private sector investments in energy efficiency in the industrial sector and in Paraguay
This document outlines the gender action plan for project FP063: Promoting private sector investments in energy efficiency in the industrial sector and in Paraguay. Gender action plans seek to operationalise the...
Document > Gender action plan Paraguay IDB
Securing vulnerable coastal and marine livelihoods in Mozambique against climate-change hazards
This concept note provides basic information on the project/programme "Securing vulnerable coastal and marine livelihoods in Mozambique against climate-change hazards," and was submitted to allow the project proponent a...
Document > Concept note Mozambique UNEP
Policy on prohibited practices
Adopted by decision B.22/19. Establishes the specific conduct and activities which are prohibited, the obligations of Covered Individuals and Counterparties to uphold the highest standards of integrity, and the actions...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
GCF/B.23/08 - Dates and venues of upcoming meetings of the Board
This document has been prepared to assist the Board in:
Confirming the dates and duration for the twenty-fourth meeting of the Board;
Deciding the dates for meetings of the Board in 2020; and
Deciding on the venues...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.23/02/Add.06 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum VI Funding proposal package for FP112
This addendum contains the following seven parts:
A funding proposal titled “Addressing Climate Vulnerability in the Water Sector (ACWA) in the Marshall Islands”;
No-objection letter issued by the national...
Board document > Action item
Policies: Business model & allocation
Business model & allocation
Business model policies and decisions establish the basic operating parameters of GCF’s business model and the key principles that guide the Fund’s operations in line with the Governing...
Basic page > Policy map
GCF/B.43/02/Add.10/Rev.01 - Consideration of funding proposals – Addendum X Funding proposal package for SAP063
This addendum contains the following six parts:
a) A funding proposal titled "Scaling up of Caribbean Hydrometeorological and Multihazard Early Warning Services (CREWS) in Belize and Trinidad and Tobago";
b) No-...
Board document > Action item
GCF Board approves projects worth USD 250M and prepares for leadership transition
The thirteenth meeting of the Board (B.13) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved its first funding proposals for 2016 totalling USD 256.6 million in GCF funding.
“The close of B.13 marks the half-way point for...
Article > Press release 
The Green Climate Fund’s Group of Friends convene to discuss climate action urgency and show support for GCF’s second replenishment
GCF leadership met with ambassadors and representatives of its partner countries in the Republic of Korea as part of the 4th meeting of the ‘Group of Friends of GCF’. Representatives of 36 countries engaged in...
Article > News update 
GCF and partners catalyse USD 600 million to boost adaptation finance
The Green Climate Fund (GCF), along with its partners MUFG Bank Ltd. (MUFG) and FinDev Canada, have achieved a major milestone in scaling private investment for adaptation with the USD 600 million first closure of the...
Article > News update MUFG_Bank 
National Adaptation Planning support for Antigua and Barbuda through Ministry of Health and Environment
The goal of this grant is to contribute to the global goal on adaptation in the Paris Agreement – to enhance adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability to climate change (Article 7.1.). The...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Antigua and Barbuda DOE_ATG
Building the engagement of Burkina Faso with the GCF: Establishing and strengthening national institutions to engage with GCF and formulate a country programme
The requested Readiness Programme aims at strengthening the recently nominated Focal Point (or NDA) of Burkina Faso, in order to enable engagement with the Fund. National climate change strategies, plans, and priorities...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Burkina Faso IUCN
GCF/B.23/02/Add.08 - Consideration of funding proposals – Addendum VIII Funding proposal package for FP114
This addendum contains the following six parts:
A funding proposal summary titled “Program on Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA): Financing Climate Resilient Agricultural Practices in Ghana”...
Board document > Action item
Policies: Operations of the Board
Operations of the Board
The Governing Instrument sets out that the Fund will be governed and supervised by a Board that will have full responsibility for funding decisions. It also sets out the full range of roles and...
Basic page > Policy map
Policies: Resource mobilisation
Resource mobilisation
The Governing Instrument sets out that the Fund will receive financial inputs from developed country Parties to the Convention, and may also receive financial inputs from a variety of other...
Basic page > Policy map
GCF-2
GCF's second replenishment
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) – a critical element of the historic Paris Agreement – is the world’s largest climate fund mandated to support low emission, climate-resilient development pathways...
Basic page
SAP026 - Extended Community Climate Change Project-Drought (ECCCP-Drought)
Bangladesh is experiencing an increasing frequency and intensity of drought in its flat and low-lying northwestern region (NWR), an important agricultural hub in the country. More than 60% of the population in the...
Project > Public sector Bangladesh PKSF 
SAP027 - Solomon Islands Knowledge-Action-Sustainability for Resilient Villages (SOLKAS) Project
Rise in sea level and temperature, extreme rainfall, flooding, and droughts threaten the Solomon Islands’ population who reside on low-lying islands and atolls. The local population remains highly reliant on dwindling...
Project > Public sector Solomon Islands SCA 
SAP028 - Women-Adapt: Enhancing the climate change adaptive capacity of smallholder farmer communities in the Poro Region, focusing on vulnerable women and youth
Côte d’Ivoire, a coastal country in the Gulf of Guinea, is expected to be hit by rising temperatures, longer dry-spells and more intense and irregular precipitation patterns in the near-term future. In the Poro region,...
Project > Public sector Côte d'Ivoire WFP 