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Consultations on Operational Modalities for the GCF Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme strategy 2024-2027
The GCF Secretariat is inviting stakeholders for consultation on operational modalities for the GCF Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme: strategy ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF United Arab Emirates 
27th GCF Board meeting opens: over USD 1 billion in climate finance projects to be considered
The 27th Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting begins today. The five-day, virtual meeting will ... countries. If all are approved, this would bring GCF’s current portfolio of allocated climate finance to ...
Article > Press release 
GCF support for adaptation planning helps developing countries build the case for increased action and investment
The first GCF Adaptation Rationale workshop took place in Cebu, Philippines on 14-16 November 2018. ... planning processes. "This workshop is an opportunity for GCF Direct Access Entities and National Designated ...
Article > Press release Philippines (the) 
Call for Public Inputs: Development of the GCF’s Environmental and Social Safeguards - Stage 2: Proposed ESS standards updates
The GCF Secretariat is pleased to invite all interested organizations and ... inputs to the second stage of the development of the GCF’s Environmental and Social Safeguards. Inputs are ...
Document > Call for input
GCF launches Green Champions Awards to recognise outstanding climate change efforts in developing countries
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has launched the GCF Green Champions Awards to recognise and promote the most noteworthy and successful efforts to fight climate change in ...
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 ... to plug a funding gap for sub-national climate initiatives. GCF announced it has signed funding agreements with both ...
Article > Press release 
GCF at the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings and UN: Climate finance and global financial reforms loom large
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) recently participated at the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, DC and engaged with UN ... for climate finance. Led by the Executive Director, the GCF delegation attended various events, fora and meetings at ...
Article > News update 
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
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 
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 
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 
Development of an effective governance framework for the implementation of a multi-hazard early warning system in Peru
Despite the efforts to develop policies and strategies aimed ... readiness proposal is to provide inputs to the upcoming concept note and funding proposal on MHEWS in Peru. Therefore, this ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Peru
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 
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 
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 
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
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 
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 
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)
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) 