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Funding and subsidiary agreements signed on the same day between GCF, FAO, and Government of Cambodia, accelerating implementation of a new climate resilient agricultural project in Cambodia
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have signed a project agreement, referred to as a Funding Activity Agreement (FAA) to rapidly begin the implementation...
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Accelerating climate finance and investment for a green transition
Dear Vice- Minister of Economy and Finance Eok-won Lee
Distinguished guests,
I congratulate the leadership of the South Korean Government for convening the P4G summit in May and commend its partnership with P4G.
The...
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GCF and Acumen sign agreement to promote resilient agriculture in East and West Africa
The Green Climate Fund and Acumen have signed funding agreements which will open up new channels of climate finance to climate resilient agriculture projects in East and West Africa. GCF has committed USD 26 million to...
Article > Press release 
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 
Green Climate Fund names Mafalda Duarte as new Executive Director
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board has selected Mafalda Duarte as its new Executive Director. Following an extensive global recruitment process, the Board made the selection during its thirty-fifth meeting at the GCF...
Article > Press release 
Chadian private sector support for low carbon and climate-resilient development
As a landlocked country, Chad is grappling with security challenges associated with the impacts of climate change, in particular accelerated desertification and the drying up of lake Chad. The country's social...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chad
GCF/B.21/Inf.10/Add.01 - Reports from committees, panels and groups of the Board of the Green Climate Fund – Addendum I
This document contains the reports on activities that have already been conducted or are planned to be undertaken by the following committees and panels of the Board of the Green Climate Fund during the reporting period...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.20/10/Add.19 - Consideration of funding proposals – Addendum XIX Funding proposal package for SAP002
This addendum contains the following seven parts:
A funding proposal summary titled “Climate services and diversification of climate sensitive livelihoods to empower food insecure and vulnerable communities in the...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.18/04/Add.24/Rev.01 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum XXIV: Response from the accredited entities to the Independent Technical Advisory Panel assessment
This addendum contains the response from the accredited entities to the independent Technical Advisory Panel assessments of funding proposals (FP046-FP058) submitted for the Board’s consideration at its eighteenth...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.18/10 - Structure and staffing of the Secretariat
This document presents, for the Board’s consideration, a progress report on the staffing of the Secretariat; reviews the evolution of the Secretariat’s organizational structure over time; reviews challenges with the...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.18/03 - Report on the execution of the 2017 administrative budget of the GCF as at 31 July 2017
This document presents an update of actual expenditures for the seven months to 31 July 2017 against the approved administrative budget. It is based on actual expenditures relating to activities of the Board, the...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.16/20 - Updated terms of reference of the Independent Redress Mechanism
By decision B.06/09, paragraph (c), the Board adopted the terms of reference (TOR) of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). By decision B.13/24, paragraph (e), the Board invited the Head of the IRM, following...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.15/20 - Workplan and budget for the Independent Integrity Unit for 2017
This document contains a draft workplan and budget for the Independent Integrity Unit for Budget Year 2017. The workplan outlines the areas of work for the Unit in 2017, taking into account initial start-up requirements...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.11/04/ADD.06 - Funding proposal package for FP006
This addendum contains the following two parts:
A funding proposal summary entitled “Energy Efficiency Green Bond in Latin America and the Caribbean” submitted by the Inter-American Development Bank containing...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.01-13/07 - Resource Mobilization for the Fund
The document seeks to outline options for approaches to resource mobilization for the Fund. These options take into account the processes used in other funding mechanisms, such as the International Development...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.11/13 - Comparison of salary levels for comparable positions at other specialized global funds for the Heads of the Accountability
The Board through decision B.10/05 endorsed the selection process for the Heads of the Accountability Units, and decided that their remuneration levels will be comparable to the salary levels of equivalent roles in...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.11/02 - Workplan for meetings of the Board in 2016, including outstanding items from previous meetings
This document proposes a workplan for meetings of the Board in 2016. The proposed workplan is composed of tentative lists of items for consideration by the Board at its twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth meetings. The...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.11/19 - Updated administrative guidelines on human resources
The Board at its eighth meeting having considered the Administrative Guidelines on Human Resources, approved document GCF/B.08/26 titled “Administrative guideline on human resources” for a period to last until the end...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.11/22 - Trustee arrangements, including the review of the Interim Trustee and the initiation of a process to select the Trustee of the Green Climate Fund
This document presents an update on the steps towards selecting a Permanent Trustee and proposes a draft decision for consideration by the Board on the terms of reference of the selection process for the review of the...
Board document > Action item
Call for public input: Information Disclosure Policy
The Green Climate Fund is pleased to invite public input for the development of its information disclosure policy.
This call follows the Fund’s Board decision at its 5th meeting in October 2013 (B.08/15) that requested...
Document > Call for input
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Guatemala through FAO
The current proposal will create the enabling conditions to design, implement and evaluate options for enhanced climate action in the AFOLU sector by strengthening the methods and institutional arrangements for the...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Guatemala
Gender action plan for FP070: Global Clean Cooking Program – Bangladesh
This document outlines the gender action plan for project FP070: Global Clean Cooking Program – Bangladesh. Gender action plans seek to operationalise the constraints and opportunities for women and men identified...
Document > Gender action plan Bangladesh
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP075: Institutional Development of the State Agency for Hydrometeorology of Tajikistan
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP075: Institutional Development of the State Agency for Hydrometeorology of Tajikistan. Project and programme funding...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Tajikistan
Access to Clean Energy (ACE) Fund for Off-grid Energy
This concept note provides basic information on the project/programme "Access to Clean Energy (ACE) Fund for Off-grid Energy," and was submitted to allow the project proponent a chance to seek feedback from the GCF...
Document > Concept note India
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Peru through GIZ
The Ministry of Economy and Finance is the National Designated Authority to the Green Climate Fund (GCF). To adequately fulfil its role and responsibilities in the relation to the GCF, the NDA requests support on the...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Peru
Entity Support for Argentina through UCAR
The objective of the present readiness and preparatory support is to strengthen Argentina’s accredited national direct access entity to the Fund and to develop a robust pipeline of programs and projects to submit to the...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Argentina
Policies: Administration
Administration
GCF’s administrative policies cover GCF’s key administrative processes including information disclosure, human resources, travel, procurement, accounting, communications, and management of conflict of...
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Early warning systems
Overview
People in Africa, South Asia, South and Central America, and the inhabitants of small island states are 15 times more likely to die from climate disasters. These disasters displace three times more people than...
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Regional presence
Call for proposals to host GCF regional presence
The Green Climate Fund is the world's largest multilateral climate fund dedicated to developing countries. GCF was established following the Cancun COP in 2010 as an...
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GCF's first REDD+ results-based payment boosts financial incentive to protect forests
The Green Climate Fund's recent decision to pay Brazil USD 96.5 million for keeping Amazon forests standing in 2014 and 2015 shows the concept of REDD+ is starting to pay off for countries stepping up efforts to halt...
Article > Press release Brazil 