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Unlocking capital for climate action
The fifth annual GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference (GPIC) has ... Addressing the opening session on Thursday September 15, GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec highlighted GCF’s ... Partnership was also a common theme at the Global Programming Conference (GPC) . Held before GPIC, GPC ...
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Climate Resilient Enduring Earth for Bolivia and Namibia (CREE-BN)
... Wildlife Fund, Inc. (WWF US) and partners seek to develop a GCF Funding Proposal based on the Concept Note endorsed by the GCF as of 20 October 2025, to create a transformational, flagship climate-biodiversity nexus program, entitled Climate Resilient Enduring Earth (CREE) ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Namibia WWF
Strategic frameworks support for Armenia through ARMSWISSBANK
... review, legal framework analysis, “green finance” manual preparation, private sector engagement and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Armenia
Update of the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (NAP) in Chile
... To fulfill this commitment, financial support from the GCF Readiness Program is crucial and will contribute to overcome barriers ... and national adaptation planning efforts, the GCF grant will help deliver on the country’s readiness ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chile FAO
Supporting developing countries on the road to a climate-resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic
... that will help maximize the impact of their respective programmes in support of developing country recovery ... prosperous clean energy economy. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) takes a three pronged approach to support developing ... First, through proactive adapative management, the GCF is working with its partners to mitigate the impact of ...
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The Green Climate Fund achieves record-breaking year as Board channels USD 3.26 billion to developing countries in 2025
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board approved a record volume of climate finance for ... USD 1.332 billion total is the largest amount approved at a GCF Board meeting and brings the year’s total to USD 3.26 ... Sweden said: “I am delighted that in our tenth year of programming, the Board has approved a record annual ...
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Enhancing Lesotho’s private sector readiness for a clean energy transition
... capacity, systems and networks to support the planning, programing, and implementation of GCF funded activities (outcome 1.3) Developing a strategy to ... including the planning, programing and implementation of GCF funded activities. The present proposal will further ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Lesotho UNIDO
Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Resilience in the Amazon: Bridging Traditional Wisdom and Modern Technology
... peoples as agents of change. This is recognised in GCF’s Strategic Plan 2024-2027 , a programming compass that puts indigenous knowledge at the ... climate innovation, and private investment catalysed with GCF finance. The relevance of traditional, local and ...
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Green Climate Fund announces support for adaptation, endorsement of COP initiatives
Baku, Azerbaijan — The Green Climate Fund (GCF) today set out how it is increasing the impact of its ... balancing investments between adaptation and mitigation, GCF is doing both across its portfolio. The Fund: Has ... Africa (DBSA) to create the South Africa Water Reuse Programme will transform water management by treating water ...
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Green Climate Fund Board commits an additional USD 407.8 million to combat climate crisis
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is now financing climate action in over 100 developing ... closed today after allocating USD 407.8 million, raising GCF’s total portfolio to USD 5.6 billion. This includes ... reviewed GCF’s updated Strategic Plan for the 2020-2023 programming period, which aims to deliver more ambitious ...
Article > Press release 
Country commitments and ambitions
... and a country-driven approach are core principles of GCF. One of our operational priorities is to ensure that ... and responses need to be determined by each country. GCF has built this principle of country ownership into all ...
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Empowering Direct Access Workshop 2018
GCF's second Empowering Direct Access workshop attracted ... governments of developing countries interacting with GCF. The workshop supported organisations seeking Direct ... Direct Access Entities develop high-quality projects or programmes to submit to GCF, based on their alignment with ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the) 
Strengthening Adaptation Planning in Tonga
... resilience and gender response in all climate financing programs, and reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts. This GCF NAP project aims to build on Tonga's NDC by accelerating ... of priority actions identified in the JNAP and Tonga GCF Country Programme. The overall goal of the proposed GCF ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Tonga
Executive Director unveils “50 by 30” blueprint for reform, targeting USD 50 billion by 2030
... Climate Fund, announced the tenets of her vision and reform programme to enable the Fund to efficiently manage USD 50 ... Climate Fund. “I commend the founding parties of the GCF for their vision and call on its champions to help us ... six countries announced additional contributions to GCF at the UN Climate Ambition Summit. Pledges were received ...
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Development of Guyana’s National Climate Finance Strategy, MRV System and Project Pipeline to Support NDC Implementation
... instruments for the National Designated Authority to the GCF (NDA), National Climate Change Committee (NCCC), ... Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), potential national GCF Direct Access Entities (DAEs), banking institutions, ... of a project pipeline with an investment plan and project/program concept notes for submission to GCF to meet ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Guyana GGGI
Scaling up green finance practices: A blueprint to break- through into a climate resilient Cook Islands as a catalyst to mobilize private sector investment
... request for Readiness Support. The Cook Islands is seeking GCF accreditation for the Bank of the Cook Islands which ... and signing off on the Accreditation Master Agreement. The GCF modality of on-lending is an avenue not currently ... as the Delivery Partner. Implementation of this readiness program will further build capacity and capability in terms ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cook Islands
Support for Formulation of Palau’s First National Adaptation Plan (NAP)
... currently under development with support from a different GCF Readiness project. Specific barriers that have been ... project consists of 4 key outcomes that are aligned with GCF’s NAP investment priorities and which will address the ... for inclusion in the NAP and eventually for a GCF country program to be developed in the near future. The direct ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Palau
Chadian private sector support for low carbon and climate-resilient development
... In fact, since the inception of Chad’s engagement with GCF, no funding proposal dedicated to the country has been approved yet, as all GCF-funded climate projects that have benefited Chad have ... focuses on Outcomes 1.1; 1.3; and 5.1 of the GCF Readiness Program. In partnership with the IFDD and based on the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chad IFDD
Locally Led Climate Action
... Action (LLCA) is central to how the Green Climate Fund (GCF) delivers on its mandate to support the most vulnerable. ... implement climate responses grounded in local realities. GCF’s approach to LLCA builds on globally endorsed Principles for Locally Led Adaptation and GCF’s operational experience, including with the Enhancing ...
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Financing ambition and the future we want
... Fund is a partnership organization. With its partners, the GCF has built a strong portfolio of 129 projects worth a ... USD 2 billion. In terms of thematic allocation, 51% of GCF funding is for adaptation and 49% mitigation. The GCF ... manner. We are also exploring options to simplify programming modalities and preparing project development ...
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Meet iTAP webinar: Ecosystem Based Adaptation or “EBA”
... The webinar discussed design of EBA projects in the GCF context, including issues such as how to: calculate ... was held on the challenges involved in large adaptation programs (including EBA), where sub-projects cannot be known ...
Event > Webinar 
Agriculture Sector Readiness for enhanced climate finance in India
The goal of the current GCF Readiness Proposal is to enhance India’s capacity to develop sub-national climate finance investment programs and projects linked to adaptation and resilience ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal India FAO
Enhancing Saint Lucia’s understanding, capacity, institutional and strategic frameworks to access climate finance for low-emission climate resilient pathways
... completing its first national readiness grant titled “GCF Readiness and Preparatory Support in Saint Lucia” ... knowledge products, and engage multiple stakeholders on GCF related matters in a sustained and consistent manner as articulated in its Country Programme. The objective of this readiness grant is to ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Saint Lucia CCCCC
Green Climate Fund approves funding to Climate Asset Management to develop strategy for scaling regenerative practices at a landscape level in Sub-Saharan Africa
GCF grant to enable design of a blended finance and ... needed to deliver this The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved funding from its Project Preparation ... the use of GCF's Project Preparation Facility (PPF). The program will leverage GCF's PPF funding to create a ...
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Improving the capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture of Suriname to build resilience to climate change in the agriculture sector
... building the enabling environment to support the planning, programming and implementation of GCF-funded activities. The project will also build the ... to allow Suriname to submit a project concept note to the GCF. The proposal will assist the Government of Suriname in ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Suriname FAO
Technical Guidance for Updating Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) and development of a Technology action plan for the implementation of NDC’ Côte d’Ivoire
... of the various national initiatives (Revision of the NDC, GCF Country Program, NAP). This objective will be achieved through the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Côte d'Ivoire UNEP-CTCN
Strengthening the NDA’s institutional and technical capacity to mobilize gender-responsive climate finance for Eswatini
... the implementation of the policy, especially in preparing programs and projects that can contribute to building the ... to advance prioritized project ideas into the country’s GCF project pipeline in a way that addresses gender-related ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Eswatini GWPO
Market Preparation for Industrial Energy Efficiency in Lao PDR
... efficiency policy guidelines and action plan. A training program for the development of local energy services ... in the industrial sector with investors and financiers. A GCF concept note on industrial energy efficiency investment ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) GGGI
Groundwork for e-mobility investments in Lao PDR
... of electric vehicles and charging stations, this Readiness program will produce the below deliverables: Updated ... an EV financing facility; Development of one high quality GCF Concept Note to mobilize financing towards e-mobility ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) GGGI
Enhancing the Climate Resilience of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene sector in Sri Lanka
... (CBOs). By incorporating the WASH sector into the GCF programming, the NDA can expect a more comprehensive ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Sri Lanka