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The Green Climate Fund (GCF)’s Global Programming Conference (GPC) wrapped up with key conclusions that will inform GCF’s strategy around the Fund’s upcoming second replenishment and strategic programming priorities for...

This Amazon conservation project was designed to co-finance the REDD+ Action Plan in Ecuador by enhancing financial instruments and land-use planning. The project commenced in May 2017 and was aimed at addressing...

Millions of poor farmers living in the world’s most climate-impacted parts of the Sahel have cause for hope today because of their governments’ support for accelerating Africa’s Great Green Wall (GGW), an area covering...

Ethiopia’s drought-prone regions, particularly the Kobo-Girana Valley and the Borena Zone, face mounting challenges due to climate change. Increasing temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, and prolonged droughts...

Malawi is among the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world, exposed to increasing temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, and extreme weather events. These result in a range of health-related impacts,...

As Rwanda urbanises rapidly, it is facing significant climate variability, which is leading to increased heat and more erratic and heavy precipitation. The resulting floods and landslides in informal peri-urban...

Somalia is one of the most fragile countries in the world. It faces significant challenges regarding security, inequality, displacement, conflicts over natural resources and economic development, all of which are...

West Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world, with crippling agricultural losses, recurrent food crises, water scarcity and extreme flooding, and environmental degradation from multiple climate hazards...

Indonesia’s West Kalimantan Province faces critical climate hazards such as deforestation, forest degradation, rising temperatures, floods, and droughts. These hazards particularly affect the province’s peatland...

Iraq faces critical climate hazards such as rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, and reduced water availability from the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. These challenges are compounded by poor water management and soil...

Viet Nam’s rapidly growing economy is placing increasing pressure on its natural resources, including forests. Despite a logging ban in 2016, the nation has faced challenges in balancing forest conservation with farmers...

Barbados is among the world's most water-scarce countries, with water abstraction levels exceeding 100 per cent of sustainable aquifer supply during periods of below-average rainfall. Agriculture, a major water consumer...

Smallholder farmers in Africa are increasingly vulnerable to climate change. Rising temperatures, droughts, and shifting rainfall patterns threaten their livelihoods and food security. Cultivating 80 per cent of Africa'...

Mobilising private sector climate finance is an urgent priority to enable vulnerable countries to move towards a climate-resilient future rapidly. This programme aims to achieve a systemic transformation of the...

The global climate crisis is interconnected with water, leading to greater variability in the water cycle, diminished resources, and rising CO2 emissions from inadequate water and sanitation infrastructure. There is an...

Angola, particularly the Cunene region, faces serious socio-economic challenges that increase its vulnerability to climate change. Rising temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, and frequent droughts threaten the region's...

Azerbaijan is facing an escalating level of climate-induced vulnerability. This increased risk is leading to water stress, heatwaves, extreme rainfall and increased frequency and severity of flood events, mudflows and...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is heeding calls to help developing countries bolster their defences against the increasingly damaging effects of climate change, while overcoming COVID-19 fiscal constraints.  That was the...

The Green Climate Fund has convened more than 60 developing country Ministers and high-level officials alongside a broad range of partners in the Republic of Korea to discuss how to increase momentum for climate action...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) in partnership with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Global Dairy Platform (GDP) approved USD 3.5 million of...

Six project agreements were signed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and its Accredited Entity (AE) partners on the margins of GCF’s 37th Board meeting (23- 25 October 2023) in Tbilisi, Georgia. Out of 15 projects...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and Save the Children have launched today an unprecedented US$70 million investment at COP28 to build climate-resilient schools in vulnerable...

At the edge of a forest clearing in Meuangkao Village, Khamla Nanthavong, a National Forestry Adviser, reviews data on his tablet. Not long ago, this area faced the threat of illegal logging. Today, strengthened...