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Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP276: GCF's investment into the Global Green Bond Initiative (GGBI)
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP276: GCF's investment into the Global Green Bond Initiative ... Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP276: GCF's investment into the Global Green Bond Initiative (GGBI) ...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Multiple countries EIB
GCF-EIF agreement opens way for start of Namibian nature-based climate solution
The Green Climate Fund has come a step closer to helping Namibia’s Environmental ... of ecosystems to help communities withstand climate change. GCF and EIF have signed a Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) ... change by using an ecosystems-based adaptation approach. GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec said: “This ...
Article > Press release Namibia EIF 
GCF invests USD 99 million in EBRD Green Cities Facility to reduce urban climate impacts
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) took a major step forward today to help make redesigned cities drivers of ... emissions. The Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) signed by GCF and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ...
Article > Press release EBRD 
GCF Executive Director highlights urgency of climate action as Heads of State sign Paris Agreement
Speaking at United Nations Headquarters in New York on the occasion of the Paris Agreement and Earth Day, GCF Executive Director Héla Cheikhrouhou today called for ... countries and the Fund’s partner institutions to bring to GCF funding proposals that enable a shift away from ...
Article > Press release 
Great Green Wall gets USD 82.8 million boost from GCF and IFAD
A project agreement has been signed in the margins of the COP26 meeting in Glasgow to green-light a USD 82.8 million GCF investment in support of the Great Green Wall. GCF and IFAD have today signed the agreement for the “ ...
Article > Press release IFAD 
Nine new projects set for implementation after approval at record-breaking GCF Board meeting
Nine new projects backed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are ready for ... agreements were signed for each project on the margins of GCF’s 42nd Board meeting (B.42) , where the projects were ...
Article > News update 
Unlocking climate finance: An interactive session with AE focal points and NDAs on the GCF Project Preparation Facility
This webinar will provide an overview of the GCF Project ... (PSAA) Applicants – that have successfully accessed GCF PPF grants to develop Board-approved project and ...
Event > Webinar 
UNDP and GCF sign partnership agreement to invest in low-emission and climate resilient development
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) have signed an Accreditation Master Agreement, ... basic terms and conditions to work together for the use of GCF resources. In March 2015, UNDP was one of the first ...
Article > Press release UNDP 
GCF and GIZ sign project agreement for sustainable forest management in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) ... (PDR) for a USD 79.3 million project (USD 35.2 million in GCF financing), to address a much-needed transition to the ...
Article > News update GIZ 
GCF completes USD 20 million transfer to drive clean Mongolian energy sector
The Green Climate Fund is helping Mongolian enterprises kick start a national, ... 20 million funds transfer to a Mongolian bank. The bulk of GCF’s contribution, USD 19.5 million, will allow ... in eco-banking in 2009. At the end of last year, GCF designated XacBank as a direct access Accredited Entity, ...
Article > Press release Mongolia XacBank 
Strengthening the technical and human capacities of the Gambian Agency for the Management of Public Works (GAMWORKS) to meet the GCF requirements
The Gambia is particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of climate ... that allows the Gambia to more easily engage with the GCF. GAMWORKS, as a public works agency with a general ... maturity of GAMWORKS against the elements required in the GCF checklist1 shows a number of gaps to address in order to ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Gambia EYAG
Strengthening the technical and human capacities of the Gambian Agency for the Management of Public Works (GAMWORKS) to meet the GCF requirements
The Gambia is particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of climate ... that allows the Gambia to more easily engage with the GCF. GAMWORKS, as a public works agency with a general ... maturity of GAMWORKS against the elements required in the GCF checklist1 shows a number of gaps to address in order to ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Gambia
GCF in Brief: The Green Climate Fund: Realising the Climate Potential of Public Development Banks
The Green Climate Fund is working to realise the potential of Public Development ... Summit from 9-11 November, this factsheet sets out how GCF is partnering with PDBs around the world to drive the ... transition that the world needs to reach its climate goals. GCF in Brief: The Green Climate Fund: Realising the Climate ...
Document > GCF in Brief
Glemarec highlights role of GCF in boosting adaptation action at Korea Global Adaptation Week
New Executive Director Yannick Glemarec has committed the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to reinforcing its support for adaptation in developing ... at the opening of a major conference in Songdo, home of GCF. "Our shared experience with countries and partners has ...
Article > Press release 
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 ... With the new strategic plan approved, I am confident that GCF is moving in the right direction to deliver enhanced ...
Article > Press release 
GCF helps XacBank become first Mongolian bank to finance large-scale solar
XacBank has become Mongolia’s first private bank to fund the ... in a financing partnership with the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The 10MWh solar photovoltaic (PV) plant, completed at ... power plant in a little over half a year was buoyed by GCF’s ability to plug the financial risk gap for initial ...
Article > Press release Mongolia XacBank 
Global Fund for Coral Reefs brings together grant and investment windows at GCF COP26 event
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) brought together a unique ecosystem of climate action practitioners including private ... reefs combined. Full event recording During the GCF event, international private capital advisers joined ...
Article > News update 
GCF and CRDB Bank Plc. sign agreement to boost access to climate adaptation technologies for agribusinesses in Tanzania
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and CRDB Bank Plc. have signed an agreement for a climate adaptation lending ... Programme (TACATDP) . The FAA sets the legal groundwork for GCF to transfer its USD 100 million co-investment to CRDB in ...
Article > News update 
Timor-Leste's first GCF-funded project: A step towards increased climate resilience
At its twenty-third meeting in July (B.23), the Board of the Green Climate Fund approved GCF’s first climate action project in Timor-Leste, FP109: ... to the country’s climate change conference and to B.23, GCF and the Government of Timor-Leste have been working ...
Article > Press release Timor-Leste UNDP 
Board prepares to consider eight new public sector project proposals as GCF pipeline grows
Eight new public sector project proposals have been published ahead of the ... B.13 meeting which will take place from 28-30 June at GCF’s Headquarters in Songdo, Republic of Korea. In line ... in vulnerable areas. The proposals are taken from GCF’s pipeline, which has now reached 41 proposals ...
Article > Press release 
Strengthening Iran’s access to GCF with national ownership, knowledge-based policies and sound technologies
The project goal is for Iran to have an enabling environment and capacity to ... are to: Continue to strengthen coordination with GCF and other climate finance institutions; Establish Iran’s direct access to the GCF, assisting eligible national entity applicants in their ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Iran (Islamic Republic of) FAO
Climate finance should include the poor, Philippine officials tell visiting GCF group
Climate finance plays a key role in helping poor people who are most vulnerable ... senior Philippine environment officials told a visiting GCF delegation led by Executive Director Howard Bamsey. ... Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, told the GCF team during its visit to the Philippines on 15 to 17 ...
Article > Press release Philippines (the) 
GCF signs six new project agreements after 36th Board meeting
Six project agreements for climate action were signed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and its partners on the margins of GCF’s 36th Board meeting (10-13 July 2023) , a record ...
Article > News update 
Building Niger’s engagement with the GCF: Establishment and strengthening of the NDA, and elaboration of a country programme identifying strategic priorities
The requested Readiness Programme aims at strengthening the capacity of the recently nominated GCF Focal Point of Niger and the development of strategic ... that builds on existing relevant initiatives, under the guidance of the NDA. This work will build on national ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Niger (the) UNEP
GCF private sector conference makes business case to lower planet's climate costs
“Business cannot succeed on a planet that fails.” This was ... hundreds of billions of people,” the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Executive Director spoke positively about the business ... to the development of the green bond. Other conference keynote speakers included MUFG Bank’s Managing Executive ...
Article > Press release 
GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference paves the way for more climate finance from the private sector
Participants from over 100 countries have gathered to attend the Green ... into driving climate action in developing countries. GCF’s decision to hold this second annual private ... wealth funds, pension funds and insurance companies, to tap GCF finances to expand emerging markets of low-emission and ...
Article > Press release 
Strengthening Côte d’Ivoire’s Capacity and Ownership to Access Climate Finance for GCF Country Programme Implementation
For the past two years, Côte d’Ivoire (CIV) has initiated a strong engagement with the GCF. Four multi-country projects (FP151, FP152, FP095 and FP092) have been approved by the GCF covering CIV, as well as a Simplified Approval Process ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Côte d'Ivoire FIRCA
FP276 - GCF's investment into the Global Green Bond Initiative (GGBI) (previously known as Green and Resilience Debt Platform (GRDP)
This project scales up access to climate finance in low- and ... investment in low-emission development. It supports GCF’s strategic goal of mobilizing private finance through ... and lower borrowing costs for bond issuers. GCF will invest EUR 200 million (approximately USD 227 ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries EIB 
Preparatory support to the NDA of Equatorial Guinea to engage with the GCF in early phases of REDD (NMFS and FREL/FRL)
This GCF readiness support will support Equatorial Guinea to advance its ... support to the NDA of Equatorial Guinea to engage with the GCF in early phases of REDD (NMFS and FREL/FRL) ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Equatorial Guinea FAO
Advancing programming and partnership framework with GCF and matching with country’s long-term low- carbon development strategies
Armenia developed the draft “GCF – Armenia Country Cooperation Programme” (CP), which is a multi-year strategic document outlining key pillars of ... been approved by the Climate Investment Committee of the GCF during initial submission in 2021 and its finalization ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Armenia EPIU