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FP207 - Recharge Pakistan: Building Pakistan’s resilience to climate change through Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) and Green Infrastructure for integrated flood risk management
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Pakistan’s average temperature variations will be approximately 1°C higher than the global average changes by 2100. As a result, and combined with other...
Project > Public sector Pakistan 
FP208 - Enhanced climate resilience in the Trois-Rivières region of Haiti through Integrated Flood Management
Haiti is highly vulnerable to climate hazards due to its exposed location in the Caribbean Ocean. The country is severely impacted by flooding due to extreme weather events such as tropical storms and hurricanes. These...
Project > Public sector Haiti 
FP213 - The Blue Green Bank (BGB)
Barbados is faced with critical challenges from climate change. Increasing temperatures, a heightened frequency and intensity of hurricanes, and rising sea levels are leading to damaged infrastructure, an endangered...
Project > Private sector Barbados 
Twenty-eighth Green Climate Fund Board meeting approves 15 new projects, USD 1.2 billion for climate action
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-...
Article > Press release 
Enhancing the resilience of health systems to climate change and emerging pandemics in the Republic of Marshall Islands
1. The Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), a small island developing state, is highly vulnerable to the health impacts of climate variability and change. Without substantial and proactive investment in adaptation in the...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Marshall Islands
GCF Regional Dialogue with Latin America sets to further accelerate climate action in the region
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Regional Dialogue with Latin America successfully concluded in Montevideo, Uruguay. Running on 24-26 July, 2023, the event aimed to accelerate climate action in the region by bringing...
Article > News update 
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 
SAP029 - Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) for Reducing Community Vulnerability to Climate Change in Northern Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Coastal and marine environments play a key role for the communities that live in the Micronesian archipelago. The communities rely heavily on the rich biodiversity of the ecosystems that are found along the coasts for...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries 
FP206 - Resilient Homestead and Livelihood support to the vulnerable coastal people of Bangladesh (RHL)
The vulnerability of the coastal people in Bangladesh can be defined in three ways: climate-sensitive livelihoods; vulnerable settlements in low-lying areas; and scarcity of safe drinking water. Many coastal residents...
Project > Public sector Bangladesh 
FP209 - Climate Change Resilience through South Africa’s Water Reuse Programme (“WRP”)
South Africa is ranked as one of most vulnerable countries to climate change and, in particular, to water-related vulnerability. Accordingly, the government's National Adaptation Plan stresses the need for enhanced...
Project > Public sector South Africa 
FP210 - KawiSafi II
The African continent collectively contributes only about 3% of the yearly global human-induced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, the region is projected to experience more severe impacts from human-induced...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries 
FP211 - Hardest-to-Reach
560 million people in the sub-Saharan region live without electricity and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future without adequate intervention. Investment barriers such as risky and nascent market, hard-to-...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries 
FP212 - &Green Fund: Investing in Inclusive Agriculture and Protecting Forests
The 1.2 billion hectares of tropical forests around the world act as crucial hubs of biodiversity and play a vital role in regulating the world's water-supply while serving as massive carbon reservoirs. The restoration...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries 
GCF Board approves new strategic plan and USD 756 million in new climate projects
The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) concluded its thirty-sixth meeting in Incheon, Republic of Korea on 13 July with several major outcomes for climate action. Notably, during the four-day meeting, the Board...
Article > Press release 
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
Strategic Plan
Overview
The GCF’s Strategic Plans set out the Board’s long-term strategic vision for the Fund, as well as its objectives, strategic priorities and operational priorities for its current programming period.
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GCF signs public-private partnership agreements to launch Global Subnational Climate Fund
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has joined forces with Pegasus Capital Advisors and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in an innovative bundling of public-private financing to plug a funding gap for...
Article > Press release 
Record-breaking Green Climate Fund Board meeting approves USD 1.225 billion for new projects, reforms accreditation model and invites bids to host regional presence
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board this week approved a record volume of climate finance for developing countries, green-lighting 17 new projects for climate action around the world. The USD 1.225 billion total is the...
Article > Press release 
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
From salty waters to stronger futures: crab farming boosts livelihood resilience along Bangladesh’s coast
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Shyamnagar, in the Satkhira District of southwestern Bangladesh, is bordered by the Sundarbans—the world's largest mangrove forest—a coastal landscape with low-...
Article > Story Bangladesh 
Initial Resource Mobilisation
Overview
Following a rapid institutional start-up phase, the GCF’s Initial Resource Mobilisation (IRM) in 2014 quickly raised USD 9.3 billion in pledges. Of this, USD 9.3 billion was confirmed.
Amount announced...
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Indigenous Peoples
Overview
Indigenous Peoples are unique and a distinct stakeholder of GCF. The rights of Indigenous Peoples are affirmed by international human rights instruments, including binding treaties and the United Nations...
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A tribute to Leo Paat Jr.
Three months ago the Green Climate Fund mourned the loss of Leonardo Paat, our dear friend and colleague. Leo died from COVID-19-related complications in August, several months after being diagnosed with the virus upon...
Article > Story 
Pacific Community
The Pacific Community (SPC) is a regional entity serving as the principal scientific and technical organization supporting development in the Pacific region. It was established by the Agreement Establishing the South...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), Direct (Regional)
La Banque Agricole (formerly Caisse Nationale de Credit Agricole du Senegal)
La Banque Agricole (LBA) (formerly, Caisse Nationale de Crédit Agricole du Sénégal (CNCAS), is a direct access, private sector entity based in Senegal. LBA specializes in the financing of agricultural value chains with...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), Direct (National) Senegal 