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What do gin and tonic, coffee and mountain climate risks have in common?
... of mountain ecosystems. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is financing various initiatives to help protect and restore ... production purely in terms of profits alone, is generating financial flows that benefit people and the natural ... An underlying rationale for all these endeavours to use financing models to protect nature recognises the need to ...
Article > Insights 
Meet iTAP webinar: Ecosystem Based Adaptation or “EBA”
On 15 March 2022, Caroline Petersen presented in “Meet iTAP” on Ecosystem Based Adaptation or “EBA” (see EBA Presentation 1). EBA can be defined as “the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall...
Event > Webinar 
Enhancing the National Adaptation Plan Process for the Sultanate of Oman
Oman’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) identifies its medium- and long-term climate adaptation needs, strategies and programmes that need to be developed and implemented to address those needs. These planning processes...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Oman UNIDO
Germany makes record EUR 2 billion pledge to Green Climate Fund
The Green Climate Fund commends and strongly welcomes the announcement by Germany that it will contribute EUR 2 billion to the Fund’s second replenishment (GCF-2).
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made the announcement...
Article > Press release 
Strategic Readiness to support the Updated NDC and its Climate Action for Georgia: Transforming Agriculture Sector through Low-Emissions and Climate-Resilient Pathways
... technical assistance, institutional capacity building and financial resources to implement their policies and plan ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Georgia FAO
Pre-accreditation support to Dos-Credobank to build institutional ESS and Gender capacities
... processes, international development environment, the financial crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. To restore ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Kyrgyzstan
Readiness Support for the Implementation of the IRMF for DAE (Fast-Track)
The proposed project is a scaling up of the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) initiative launched by the Government of Benin with UNCDF support in 2014. This initiative was originally implemented in three...
Document > Approved readiness proposal FNEC
Multi-country Project Advancing Early Warnings for All (EW4All)
... mechanism, global and regional initiatives to support financial and technical needs of countries and formulation ... participating countries and the UNDP will support the co-financing of each country proposal with in kind ... have been provided in Table E. Note that parallel co-financing is being mobilised for the EW4All initiative by ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries UNDP
Enabling the National Adaptation Plan Formulation and Implementation process and other adaptation planning processes in The Gambia
... include: i) constrained institutional, technical and financial capacities in the country to effectively plan, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Gambia UNEP
Scaling the Communal Reserve Co- management Model to Reduce Emissions and Build Resilience of Indigenous People in the Peruvian Amazon
... indicators and targets; analyse the Project’s anticipated financial and economic benefits, including a robust ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Peru CI
Developing Climate Resilient Integrated Coastal Management in Dominica
... for civil works and its budgeting An economic and financial appraisal study; Gender assessment and action ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Dominica UNEP
Green Climate Fund: USD 1.26 billion for climate action in developing countries
... committing USD 489.8 million of GCF resources. With co-financing, the eleven projects total USD 1.26 billion. With ... of USD 53 billion of assets under management, including co-financing. The projects contribute to GCF’s second ... to support the countries and regions it serves; and the financing of results-based payment for REDD+ (Reducing ...
Article > Press release 
Strengthening Nigeria’s Capacity to engage in Climate Action for a low-emissions and climate resilient development pathway.
... guide GCF investment in complementarity with other climate financiers; as well as lack capacity to implement on-going ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Nigeria
Executive Director’s remarks
Nobody questions the fact that conflict is a critical impediment to eradicating poverty and ensuring development and prosperity. Because of this, it should be of great concern to all of us to observe that the number of...
Article > Speech
FP044 - Tina River Hydropower Development Project
A hydropower facility to transit power system in Solomon Islands from diesel generated to clean and renewable energy.
Universal grid-connected electricity supply is a major challenge across the 90 Solomon Island’s...
Project > Public sector Solomon Islands WorldBank 
GCF Brings Clean Energy to Off-Grid Areas of Burkina Faso
... of renewable energy infrastructure and back local financial institutions that will provide loans for ...
Article > Press release Burkina Faso 
Green Climate Fund B.20 meeting press release
... positive decisions were made on important issues, such as a financial plan to manage the Commitment Authority of the ...
Article > Press release 
GCF strengthens partnership with Belize on readiness funding
Belize and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) have signed letters of agreement to approve readiness funding for the Caribbean island.
The letters were signed by Omar Figueroa, Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries,...
Article > Press release Belize CCCCC 
Regional workshop accelerates Pacific Island engagement with GCF
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) this week welcomed over 170 representatives from Pacific Islands countries, Accredited Entities to the GCF, development partners, civil society and the private sector to the Pacific Regional...
Article > Press release Australia Fiji 
Mali NDA signs grant agreement during visit to GCF headquarters
... these strategies. The country hopes to eventually infuse financing from GCF into this investment plan so that it can ...
Article > Press release Mali 
Strategic Frameworks support for Guyana through GGGI
... and provide recommendations as well as for innovative financing to leverage private sector investments. The main ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Guyana
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Antigua and Barbuda through the Department of Environment
... policy documents and instrument related to Climate Change Financing. Develop a Public Awareness Strategy and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Antigua and Barbuda DOE_ATG
Structured Dialogue with the Caribbean 2018
... Readiness Project led by Jamaica’s NDA; and Identifying financing mechanisms for private sector. #gcf2018caribbean ...
Event > Structured dialogue Grenada 
Timor-Leste's first GCF-funded project: A step towards increased climate resilience
... to achieve this, we need the support of the UNFCCC’s financial mechanisms such as the Global Environment ...
Article > Press release Timor-Leste UNDP 
GCF-EBRD agreement launches USD 1 billion initiative to curb industry emissions
... million in loans – catalyses over USD 750 million in co-financing to support the uptake of low carbon technologies ...
Article > Press release 
Enhancing climate change resilience of health systems in seven CARICOM States
... methods, and facilitate the access to human, technical and financial resources necessary to address the effects of ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries WHO
Improving the capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture of Suriname to build resilience to climate change in the agriculture sector
Suriname is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The country’s small population, major economic activities, and infrastructure are concentrated along the low-lying, heavily urbanized coastal zone....
Document > Approved readiness proposal Suriname FAO
Preparation of the “Public-Social-Private Partnerships for Ecologically-Sound Agriculture and Resilient Livelihood in Northern Tonle Sap Basin (PEARL)” Project
... FAO will make available an additional USD 85,388 as co-financing for the PPF activities. The requested PPF support ... arrangements for a revolving fund, and integrated financial and economic analysis, and; Environmental and ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Cambodia FAO
GCF spearheads innovation drive for climate-resilient infrastructure at COP26
... with its partners helps to provide a systematic and financially sound way forward for vulnerable countries to ...
Article > Press release Ghana Jamaica 
Scaling up the deployment of Integrated Utility Services (IUS) to support energy sector transformation in the Caribbean (Phase I)
... the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is requesting financial resources from the GCF Project Preparation ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries CDB