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An End of Year Message from GCF
... to all our partners for your contributions in 2020. The Green Climate Fund is a partnership organization, and without you we ... working in this unique era. Despite the circumstances, the Green Climate Fund intensified its efforts to maintain ...
Article > Statement 
GCF signs partner agreements hours after Board approval
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and its partners have signed implementation ... they were approved by the GCF Board. The signing of the Funded Activity Agreements (FAAs) in the margins of last ... 3.3 billion in private investments and provide access to green and reliable electricity for the poorest ...
Article > Press release WorldBank 
Cook Islands launches its first GCF country programme
... week, the Government of Cook Islands announced its first Green Climate Fund country programme which captures the government’s ... and Adaptation at GCF. Currently, GCF is providing funding to 10 projects in the Pacific region. In total, GCF ...
Article > Press release Cook Islands 
GCF Caribbean consultations chart paths to greater resilience
The Green Climate Fund is consulting with its partners in the Caribbean to ... running from 10 to 19 December, will investigate funding opportunities to progress low-emission development ... that is risk-informed.” During the GCF confabs, the Fund’s partners – including Accredited Entities and ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries 
GCF workshop builds climate adaptation ties in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
The Green Climate Fund’s first workshop for Eastern Europe and Central Asian ... measures in tourism and transport, now is the time to begin funding adaptation action,” he said. Mr Lakic stressed the ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries 
GCF meets with top global investors to boost private sector climate finance
The Green Climate Fund recently explored how to break through market barriers ... Ayaan Adam met with representatives of sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, asset managers and global banks holding more than USD ...
Article > Press release 
GCF appoints UN Climate Change high-level champion as facilitator for its second replenishment process
To support the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) second replenishment process (GCF-2), the Fund appointed Mahmoud Mohieldin as its facilitator. Dr. ...
Article > News update 
GCF rolls out new and improved Readiness Programme
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) recently launched its revised Readiness and ... the GCF Strategic Plan 2024-2027 . It contributes to the Fund’s “ 50by30,” a roadmap for GCF to manage USD 50 ... costs and time to access Readiness support, improves funding predictability, and promotes systems thinking in ...
Article > News update 
Agreement set to increase India's rooftop solar reach
... boost today with the signing of an agreement between the Green Climate Fund and India’s National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). The signing of the Funded Activity Agreement paves the way for funds to be ...
Article > Press release India NABARD 
GCF launches Executive Director recruitment process
The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has launched the process to recruit a new ... implementation of GCF operational and access modalities and funding structures; establishing and maintaining effective ...
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 ... implementation period. The legal agreement – called a Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) - was signed immediately ... to stop deforestation and prevent several million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, while improving the living ...
Article > News update GIZ 
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Afghanistan through FAO (Phase II)
... Republic of Afghanistan (GoIRA) has been engaged with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to help the country develop and implement durable ... projects such as the recently approved Adaptation Fund (AF) grant through South-South cooperation to support ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Afghanistan FAO
NDA strengthening and country programming support for India through UNDP (Phase 2)
... only readiness and preparatory support provided to India on Green Climate Fund. During the first phase, the capacity of the key ... to translate project proposal ideas into full-fledged funding proposals for GCF. During the first phase, the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal India UNDP
GCF introduces Direct Climate Action Platform - DCAP
The Green Climate Fund introduces an online volunteering platform that connects interested individuals with the Fund’s National Designated Authorities (NDAs) and Direct ... DCAP to engage themselves in reviewing concept notes and funding proposal, making risk assessments, supporting ESS, ...
Article > Press release 
GCF at COP27
... programming priorities and eligibility criteria. The Fund therefore plays a key role at COP and draws significant ... to provide resources for the second replenishment of the Green Climate Fund…” GCF and partner events One of the ... High-Level side event, Investing in the Future of Energy: Green Hydrogen High-Level Round Table . The session ...
Article > News update 
GCF’s second replenishment continues with first consultation meeting
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has concluded the first consultation meeting ... active observers and secretariats of the UNFCCC, Adaptation Fund and CIF) to discuss details of GCF’s second ... urgency, he added “We are one of the fastest climate funds in the world in terms of programming large-scale ...
Article > News update 
GCF set to approve significant investments in climate action at its 39th Board meeting
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board will convene for its 39th meeting (GCF ... proposals, totaling approximately USD 1.0 billion in GCF funding, for approval. The funding proposals cover diverse initiatives that will ...
Article > News update 
Executive Director’s remarks
... important to make this agenda a priority. In terms of the Green Climate Fund, we have committed USD 2 billion of our funds to 31 of the 37 countries classified as in conflict or ...
Article > Speech
GCF finance supports landmark climate action in Indonesia
... (REDD+) programme, with financing support from the Green Climate Fund (GCF). USD 499.8 million has been committed to the ... Contributions (NDCs).” The Indonesian Environment Fund acts as the fund manager for REDD+ in Indonesia. With ...
Article > News update Indonesia UNDP 
Addressing pre-accreditation gaps for the Environmental Management Authority of Trinidad & Tobago
... of Trinidad and Tobago (GORTT) presently accesses the Green Climate Fund (GCF) via International and Regional Access Entities; ... will be able to exercise ownership of climate change funding and better integrate these funds with its national ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Trinidad and Tobago CCCCC
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 Investment Fund (EIF) utilise the resilience of ecosystems to help ... withstand climate change. GCF and EIF have signed a Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) which opens the way for the ...
Article > Press release Namibia EIF 
GCF joins German development bank to make Tanzania more climate resilient
The Green Climate Fund signed a funding agreement with Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) ... water strains caused by climate change. The signing of the Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) with KfW, Germany’s ...
Article > Press release Tanzania KfW 
Colombian President set to open GCF’s first Latin American Dialogue
... President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón will open the Green Climate Fund's first Structured Dialogue in the Latin American ... 150 GCF Partners to learn more about how to access the Fund's resources. They include National Designated ...
Article > Press release Colombia 
GCF stresses need to highlight climate connection at Asia-Pacific Forestry Week
Green Climate Fund Deputy Executive Director Javier Manzanares called for ... protection and climate action today while stressing the Fund’s desire to provide more finances to keep forests ... is equivalent to the release of 270,000 CO2 equivalent in greenhouse gases. “The need to decouple agricultural ...
Article > Press release 
GCF coordinates talks on adaptation finance at Bonn Climate Conference
The Green Climate Fund is coordinating a series of adaptation finance ... climate change. GCF provides up to USD 3 million in grant funding to individual developing countries to help them ... financial mechanism. It aims to deliver equal amounts of funding to mitigation and adaptation, while being guided by ...
Article > Press release Germany 
USD 1 billion of climate investments to be considered at the last GCF Board meeting of the year
... investment will be considered for approval at next week’s Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board Meeting. The bold and innovative projects ... accreditation framework to simplify partners' access to GCF funding and a proposal to mainstream results-based payments ...
Article > News update 
GCF approves eight projects at its first Board meeting in 2017
The first Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting of 2017 concluded today by ... projects and programmes valued at USD 755 million in GCF funding to assist developing countries respond to climate ... of Korea. Taking these eight new projects into account, the Fund’s portfolio now consists of 43 projects and ...
Article > Press release 
NDA strengthening and direct access process support for Albania
... NDA to fulfil its role as the main communication point on Green Climate Fund (GCF) matters in the country by developing an ... will include mapping key financial institutions and their green finance practices, assessing existing barriers to ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Albania GIZ
Phase 1: Capacity development and institutional strengthening to support the development and delivery of Dominica’s GCF work program and facilitate the enabling environment for hydrogen production as part of Dominica’s low carbon and climate resilient economy
... climate resilience agenda inclusive of: the development of green hydrogen and climate resilient housing. Extreme ... enabling environment required for the transition low carbon green hydrogen industrialization The specific line ministry ... efforts including; (ii) efforts at facilitating successful green hydrogen production, a key identified activity of ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Dominica
Enhancing Zambia’s Private Sector Access to Climate Finance and Participation in NDC Implementation
... to take advantage of the abundant opportunities for green investments in the country. This Readiness proposal ... (ZACCI)2, in close cooperation with the NDA, and the Green Economy and Climate Change Department (GECCD) under the Ministry of Green Economy and Environment (MGEE). It aims to support the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Zambia DBZ