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GCF Executive Director highlights role in climate adaptation at global dialogue
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) participated in the Global Adaptation Dialogue on 30 August 2023, part of the Korea Global Adaptation Week 2023 (KGAW ... Al Suwaidi, Director General of CoP28. Mafalda Duarte, GCF Executive Director, participated in the panel ...
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GCF committed to supporting Indigenous Peoples’ access to climate finance
At COP30 in Belem, Brazil, GCF Head of Sustainability and Inclusion, Eleni Kyrou, has pledged GCF’s commitment to increasing access to climate ...
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GCF leaves COP30 ready to ramp up climate finance
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) concluded its activities at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, prepared to ramp up ... its Locally Led Climate Action (LLCA) Framework and Guidance , which will boost locally led adaptation efforts. ...
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Cook Islands become first Pacific state to receive GCF readiness funding
The Cook Islands have received financial resources from the Green ... Fund to strengthen their capacity to access finance through GCF. With this disbursement, Cook Islands are the first ... establish processes to fast-track the islands’ access to GCF funding while ensuring country ownership. “The Cook ...
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Mali NDA signs grant agreement during visit to GCF headquarters
The National Designated Authority (NDA) of the government of Mali visited ... today to sign its grant agreement with the Fund under GCF’s Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme. The ... was led by Ms. Hela Cheikhrouhou, Executive Director of GCF, and attended by Mr. Aboubacar Diabate, Director General ...
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GCF Structured Dialogue with Least Developed Countries kicks off this week
The GCF Structured Dialogue with Least Developed Countries (LDCs) will take place this week ... The event is an opportunity to accelerate and strengthen GCF engagement with countries and stakeholders in the LDCs, ...
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Second GCF Structured Dialogue with the Caribbean kicks off today in Grenada
The second GCF Structured Dialogue with the Caribbean will take place in ... civil society and private sector. Following the first GCF Structured Dialogue last year in Belize, the event in ...
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Towards a Long-Term Vision on Complementarity GEF and GCF Collaboration
This document presents a Long-Term Vision on Complementarity ... and Coherence collaboration between the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), herein after ... to build on the Pilot Coordinated Engagement exercise the GCF and GEF have been carrying out since 2018, and further ...
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GCF ensures Indigenous Peoples play a key role in climate action
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) celebrates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples ... future supplies of water to nearby Pakistani villages. A GCF project in northern Pakistan to reduce the risk of ...
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Biodiversity and climate change: Convention on Biological Diversity meets with GCF
Cristiana Paşca Palmer, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), visited the GCF headquarters this week to hold discussions about cooperation with GCF. Javier Manzanares, GCF Deputy Executive Director a.i., ...
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UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization formalizes readiness support partnership with GCF
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) have signed a Readiness Framework Agreement to enable ... to the impacts of climate change by providing technical guidance, data and tools for improved decision making and ...
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Agreement with Spanish global investor strengthens GCF’s private sector pull
The Green Climate Fund has increased its ability to tap private sector profits to ... is a joint state and privately-owned company accredited by GCF in October last year to finance climate initiatives ... agreement on Wednesday which lays the legal groundwork for GCF to injects its own catalytic input of public funds into ...
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GCF and IDB agreements to help SMEs in Latin America invest in energy efficiency
... Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) recently signed funding agreements which will enable GCF to channel climate finance to 4 projects in Latin ... are now ready to be implemented by the IDB: FP009 - GCF will provide a USD 20 million loan to the National ...
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GCF and World Bank join forces to open new climate paths
The Green Climate Fund and the World Bank today signed a key agreement to support climate action in ... impact of climate change. The World Bank, which became a GCF Accredited Entity in July 2015, already has three GCF-approved climate change projects – in the Solomon ...
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GCF Africa Regional Dialogue opens with a focus on regional climate solutions
More than 200 government and partner representatives across Africa have reaffirmed their commitment to ... regional action on climate. The Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) Regional Dialogue with Africa convened government focal ... based on “unity, courage, and decisive action.” “GCF is one of our most important partners and can be the ...
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GCF continues rapid implementation with project agreements at Board meeting
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and its partners have signed implementation agreements for three ... climate change, only hours after they were approved by the GCF Board. The three initiatives, among 13 climate projects ...
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Compilation of submissions: Draft GCF Environmental and Social Management System
On 15 December 2016, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) published a call for public inputs that invited organizations and ... system (ESMS). The call followed a mandate from the GCF Board in decision B.07/02, paragraph (n) requesting the ...
Document > Call for input
Compilation of submissions: Inputs for GCF Draft Indigenous Peoples Policy
In decision B.15/01, paragraph (a), the Board requested the ... indigenous peoples policy. The policy aims to assist GCF in incorporating considerations related to indigenous ... to provide a framework for ensuring that activities of the GCF are developed and implemented in such a way that fosters ...
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Locally-led climate action with the GCF: the Enhancing Direct Access (EDA) Pilot
The session is organized by the International Center for Climate ... Conference, in partnership with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) on 21 January 2021 at 12:00 BST / 15:00 KST. This ... Direct Access (EDA) pilot and its recently released EDA guidelines , and to draw from partners’ insights and ...
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New GCF-Government of Mongolia agreement supports country’s Paris Agreement goals
The Government of Mongolia recently signed an agreement with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to provide the organisation with Privileges and ... Determined Contribution announced today. By exempting GCF resources from national taxation, the agreement ensures ...
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Grenada PM calls for decisive climate action at GCF Structured Dialogue with the Caribbean
At the second GCF Structured Dialogue with the Caribbean, the Prime Minister ... climate change and called for this week’s dialogue with GCF to put the region on a path towards transformative ...
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GCF-IFAD agreement will help agricultural communities adapt to climate change
A key agreement signed today between the Green Climate Fund and the ... United Nations General Assembly creates the potential for GCF to finance IFAD climate projects that empower rural ... detailing the overarching rights and obligations of GCF Accredited Entities , such as IFAD . GCF Deputy ...
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Selection process of GCF Board for 2019-2021 membership underway
GCF Board members and alternate Board members are now being selected within constituencies and regional ... term of the Board concludes at the end of this year. The GCF Board, consisting of 24 members representing developed ...
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GCF Board meets in Egypt to develop project portfolio, consider new accreditations
The Green Climate Fund Board opens its eighteenth meeting today. This third meeting of the GCF Board this year is being hosted by the Government of the ... a number of funding proposals from its Accredited Entities. GCF currently has a project portfolio of 43 projects, ...
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GCF approves first grants for National Adaptation Planning in Liberia and Nepal
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) today announced the approval of its first grants in support of processes to develop National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). Under the GCF's Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme, Liberia ...
Article > Press release Liberia Nepal 
Héla Cheikhrouhou to leave GCF after her three years as Executive Director
The Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund, Ms. Héla Cheikhrouhou announced today she will step down in ... term as head of the Fund. Ms. Cheikhrouhou was appointed by GCF's Board in June 2013 to serve as the Fund’s first ... Climate Agreement in December 2015, she worked with the GCF Board to secure the approval of USD 168 million in ...
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GCF partnership with Pegasus set to protect coral reefs across 17 countries
The Green Climate Fund’s (GCF’s) first private sector support for the blue ... further in bolstering coral reefs from the climate crisis. GCF has signed a funded activity agreement with Pegasus ...
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Technical assistance project to facilitate APIA’s accreditation process to the GCF
The Tunisian NDA team has defined a strategy to implement its GCF country programme, including the identification of the ... to become a direct access entity in Tunisia. The GCF Secretariat has analyzed the first submission done ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Tunisia
Strengthening National Fiduciary Capacity for GCF Accreditation of Eswatini Environment Authority
i) Climate background and institutional and policy context: Eswatini has a significant ... statement: The Government of Eswatini has identified GCF Country Priority investment areas in alignment with the 8 GCF result areas. The country still lacks channels to access ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Eswatini
GEF-GCF event focuses on breaking silos for climate action
Naoko Ishii, CEO of the Global Environment Facility, stressed the ... silos to fight climate change at a joint meeting with GCF at COP24. Javier Manzanares, GCF Executive Director a.i. identified three priorities for ...
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