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Climate costs will rise sharply if we miss 1.5 degree target, GCF conference hears
... were some of the messages shaping discussions at a key Green Climate Fund (GCF) conference which ended today in Incheon, Republic ... change we need and a moral obligation,” she added. “The Green Climate Fund has a central role to play in channelling ...
Article > Press release 
Scaling up CoP event outlines COP26 outcomes and ways forward
... and scale up climate innovation and investments, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Brookings Institute hosted the Climate ... Glemarec also highlighted GCF’s four-pronged approach for green market creation and development . He identified the ...
Article > News update 
Caribbean countries launch landmark platform to scale up climate investment
... in the near future. Mafalda Duarte, Executive Director, Green Climate Fund said: “I congratulate Caribbean countries on the ... and beyond, helping others meet their climate goals. The Green Climate Fund is proud to support this effort through ...
Article > Press release Barbados 
Oxford Policy Management Consortium
... areas such as adaptation and resilience, low carbon growth, climate finance, disaster risk, and urban ...
Organisation > PPF service firm
FP171 - Enhancing Early Warning Systems to build greater resilience to hydro-meteorological hazards in Timor-Leste
... biodiversity, food security, water supply and economic growth. This project will help to transform ...
Project > Public sector Timor-Leste 
FP179 - Tanzania Agriculture Climate Adaptation Technology Deployment Programme (TACATDP)
... share of the sector’s contribution to national economic growth – losses that are being exacerbated by ...
Project > Private sector Tanzania 
GCF helps XacBank become first Mongolian bank to finance large-scale solar
XacBank has become Mongolia’s first private bank to fund the completion of a large-scale, solar plant in a financing partnership with the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The 10MWh solar photovoltaic (PV) ... investment of USD 17.6 investment – is forecast to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 12,270 tons annually, while at ...
Article > Press release Mongolia 
SIDS Prime Ministers supercharge GCF regional dialogue with the Caribbean
... regional solutions for climate action, sustainable growth and inclusive development’,” said Terrance Drew, ... “Dealing with climate change is not opposed to economic growth,” he underscored. SIDS Prime Ministers supercharge ...
Article > News update 
Namibia commences climate projects as GCF brings country ownership to the fore
Namibia has begun work on two Green Climate Fund (GCF)–supported projects bolstering rural people’s ... Implementing the projects is the Environmental Investment Fund (EIF), a GCF direct access Accredited Entity based in ...
Article > Press release Namibia 
Words do make a difference, says South African climate finance partner
... Accredited Entity representative said on the side line of a Green Climate Fund workshop . “If I go to a rural farmer and ask how ... GCF partners’ understanding of how to access the Fund’s resources for public and private sector projects, ...
Article > Press release South Africa 
Pacific countries to bolster project pipeline with GCF
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) convened countries and direct access entities in ... (DAEs) to help them develop high quality concept notes and funding proposals that are aligned to nationally determined ... notes from this programming dialogue to turn them into funding proposals for the GCF-1 programming period, and to ...
Article > Press release 
Accelerating the deployment of climate financing for early warning systems
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) through its Simplified Approval Process (SAP) and ... that have successfully implemented projects with CREWS funds, a faster access to climate finance through the GCF ... systems.” For more information on the GCF SAP: www.greenclimate.fund/projects/sap For more information on ...
Article > News update 
GCF to ramp up climate investment in South Sudan
... South Sudan—Executive Director Mafalda Duarte headed the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) first-ever delegation to South Sudan and ... organisations, and the private sector. Duarte said the Fund was committed to partner with climate-vulnerable ...
Article > News update South Sudan 
Introduction to Simplified Approval Process and the Private Sector
... the knowledge base of how SAP can more efficiently serve green private sector investments in the developing ...
Event > Webinar 
GCF REDD+ pilot pushes Paris momentum, according to COP23 side event
A new Green Climate Fund pilot for REDD+ results-based payments is helping put ... finances result in substantial and verifiable reduction of greenhouse gases. Tamaki Tsukada, also a GCF Board member ...
Article > Press release 
Tackling adversity with diversity key to climate response, says GCF workshop participant
... a government agency representative said at a recent Green Climate Fund workshop. “When it comes to agricultural practices, ... to inform its collaboration with Accredited Entities, the Fund’s instigators of action, to drive long-lasting and ...
Article > Press release Argentina 
Iraq unveils plans for ambitious climate project pipeline
... strategies. This commitment, articulated in Iraq's Green Climate Fund (GCF) Country Programme , will guide the development of ... NDCs encompass strategies for mitigating diverse sources of greenhouse gas emissions, spanning the energy, industrial, ...
Article > News update Iraq 
Readiness Support for accreditation gap assessment, capacity building and pipeline development for potential accredited entity
Armenia Renewable Resources and Energy Efficiency Fund (R2E2) is the most professional and experienced entity ... security and energy system. One of the key objectives of Fund’s operations is to promote “green energy” practices in the deprived regions of the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Armenia
GCF Board closes key policy gaps as project pipeline reaches $1.5 billion
The Board of the Green Climate Fund has taken a series of policy decisions designed to ... twelfth meeting (B.12), include the adoption of the Fund’s first Strategic Plan, its Work Plan for 2016, and ...
Article > Press release 
GCF and GEF join forces with Lao PDR to advance climate action
... and coherence in its programming plans for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), two global climate funds and the operating entities of the financial mechanism ...
Article > Press release Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) 
Long-term vision on complementary, coherence and collaboration between GCF and GEF
... the long-term vision (or LTV) sets out how the two funds can work together, given the complementary missions of ... and GCF bringing scale and blended finance. As sister Funds under the UNFCCC, GCF and GEF are committed to the ... seek to collaborate on major programmes, such as the Great Green Wall initiative, that can generate significant ...
Article > Speech
GCF explores how to strengthen private sector finance at World Forestry Congress
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) will strive to narrow the forest finance gap by ... and private sectors together to generate much needed funds from private sector investment. The World Forestry ... and forest degradation, a key contributor to increasing greenhouse gas emissions and the exposure of ecosystems and ...
Article > News update 
Structured Dialogue with Africa
The four-day Green Climate Fund's Structured Dialogue with Africa, organised in ... strong support for the role of GCF, amid calls for the Fund to maintain and enhance its engagement with the region. ...
Event > Structured dialogue Mali 
Workshop forges direct links to country-led climate action
The Green Climate Fund has strengthened its country-driven approach to ... Songdo, the Republic of Korea, to learn more about how the Fund works and to articulate the particular climate finance ... types of Accredited Entity – organisations which the Fund nominates to propose and carry out GCF-approved climate ...
Article > Press release 
Resilient Recovery Rapid Readiness Support in Honduras
... and legislation to support the creation and use of a Green Economy Model (GEM) to inform and guide reconstruction ... would then facilitate concrete investments that materialize green transformation of the economy. This proposal will ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Honduras
Social protection: Investing in reform and resilience
... the security to innovate and adapt. For example, through green public works initiatives that incorporate ... restoration, flood barriers, and soil regeneration. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has worked with FAO to support a review of how ...
Article > Insights 
Enhancing climate finance and investment in LAC banking sector
The Financial Sector plays a fundamental role in mobilizing the resources necessary to ... is a tendency in the banking sector entities to develop “green products” aimed at achieving sustainability results, ... project proposal on Climate finance for submission to the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The objective of the project is to ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
Ulaanbaatar: Live Better, Breathe Easier
... to a healthier urban environment. Building on this, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is helping Ulaanbaatar city shift to a ... a US$544 million project with ADB for the construction of green affordable housing in the ger areas of Ulaanbaatar, ...
Article > Story Mongolia 
Wetlands: An effective but undervalued climate solution
... secure millions of livelihoods around the world. The Green Climate Fund (GCF), as the world’s largest climate fund dedicated to helping developing countries raise and ...
Article > Story 
ED remarks, Interactive Dialogue 4: The Future Starts Now: enhancing the global system for current and future generations
... ecosystem, from multilateral development banks to climate funds, private sector, philanthropies, and civil society. We ... we either succeed together or fail together. How is the Green Climate Fund doing its part? We take our ... Climate Ambition Summit, we announced a roadmap for the Green Climate Fund to manage USD 50 billion by 2030, with ...
Article > Speech