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Enhancing Ethiopia’s Climate Resilience and Green Growth
This proposal aims to build the capacity of the National Designated Authority (NDA) in its effort of establishing strong climate governance/coordination mechanism across the country through the development and...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ethiopia
Catalyzing Low-carbon Investment and Mobilizing Finance for Saint Lucia (CLIMB-SLU)
Saint Lucia faces significant barriers in its transition to a low-carbon, resilient economy, primarily due to limited institutional capacity to incorporate environmental, social, and climate considerations into...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Saint Lucia
Phase 2: Capacity development and institutional strengthening to support the development and delivery of Dominica’s GCF work program and facilitate the enabling environment for investments further to the transition to a low carbon and climate resilient economy
This readiness is designed to address two (2) barriers for the Commonwealth of Dominica to transit to a low carbon Climate Resilience Economy. They are as follows: (1) lack of human technical capacity to execute...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Dominica
2023 Annual Performance Report for FP194: Programme for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (PEEB) Cool
This Annual Performance Report presents the overall implementation progress of the project including performance against GCF investment criteria, financial information, project logic framework targets indicators, and...
Document > Annual Performance Report Multiple countries
2023 Annual Performance Report for FP026: Sustainable Landscapes in Eastern Madagascar
This Annual Performance Report presents the overall implementation progress of the project including performance against GCF investment criteria, financial information, project logic framework targets indicators, and...
Document > Annual Performance Report Madagascar
2023 Annual Performance Report for FP143: Planting Climate Resilience in Rural Communities of the Northeast (PCRP)
This Annual Performance Report presents the overall implementation progress of the project including performance against GCF investment criteria, financial information, project logic framework targets indicators, and...
Document > Annual Performance Report Brazil
2023 Annual Performance Report for FP020: Sustainable Energy Facility for the Eastern Caribbean
This Annual Performance Report presents the overall implementation progress of the project including performance against GCF investment criteria, financial information, project logic framework targets indicators, and...
Document > Annual Performance Report Multiple countries
2023 Annual Performance Report for FP097: Productive Investment Initiative for Adaptation to Climate Change (CAMBio II)
This Annual Performance Report presents the overall implementation progress of the project including performance against GCF investment criteria, financial information, project logic framework targets indicators, and...
Document > Annual Performance Report Multiple countries
Alternative Response Options for Mitigation & Adaptation of Coffee Farms (AROMA) Program
The PPF grant will enable CI and partners to develop and submit a high-quality Funding Proposal for this global Program that is informed by rigorous analyses, reflects ownership by stakeholders, and best serves the...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries
2023 Annual Performance Report for FP121: REDD+ Results-based payments in Paraguay for the period 2015-2017
This Annual Performance Report presents the overall implementation progress of the project including performance against GCF investment criteria, financial information, project logic framework targets indicators, and...
Document > Annual Performance Report Paraguay
FP051 - Scaling-up Investment in Low-Carbon Public Buildings
Reducing emissions from Bosnia-Herzegovina’s public sector buildings through better energy efficiency and fuel substitution from fossil fuel to biomass.
Bosnia-Herzegovina has a large stock of ageing buildings with high...
Project > Public sector Bosnia and Herzegovina 
FP166 - Light Rail Transit for the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM)
Emissions from Costa Rica’s transport sector, contributing to 51 percent of the national total in 2015, is projected to increase by 44 percent by 2050 without mitigation measures. While Costa Ricans’ use of private cars...
Project > Public sector Costa Rica 
FP167 - Transforming Eastern Province through Adaptation
Rwanda’s Eastern Province contains the largest area of national farming lands, but it is highly vulnerable to increasing drought. With smallholder farmers depending exclusively on rainfall, changes to weather...
Project > Public sector Rwanda 
FP168 - Leveraging Energy Access Finance (LEAF) Framework
About 570 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa lack access to electricity, and instead have to rely on kerosene and diesel generators for lighting. Meanwhile, 85 percent of the population lack access to clean cooking...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries 
FP177 - Cooling Facility
As global temperatures increase and the demand for cooling rises, so do the emission levels of greenhouse and fluorinated gases, which have a very high global warming potential. Reports cite that at 1.5°C of warming –...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries 
FP182 - Climate-smart initiatives for climate change adaptation and sustainability in prioritized agricultural production systems in Colombia (CSICAP)
Climate change is already harming Colombia’s agricultural sector. Its effects are reducing crop yields, increasing soil erosion, decreasing livestock, and resulting in shorter growing cycles. At the same time, livestock...
Project > Public sector Colombia 
FP106 - Embedded Generation Investment Programme (EGIP)
The GCF-DBSA Embedded Generation Investment Programme (“EGIP”) will support the implementation of renewable energy projects with a capacity of 330 MW, which is comprised of 280 MW Solar PV and 50 MW Wind.
This will be...
Project > Private sector South Africa 
Green Climate Fund Board meeting sets stage for successful replenishment
The 22nd meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board ended today, with a raft of decisions to strengthen GCF for its first replenishment.
Following the selection of Yannick Glemarec as its new Executive Director at...
Article > Press release 
Barbados, Belize PMs hail ‘essential’ GCF role in Caribbean
Caribbean leaders warned the region is facing the twin threats of climate change and COVID-19 during the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF's) Regional Dialogue with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
GCF Executive Director...
Article > Press release 
Twenty-eighth Green Climate Fund Board meeting approves 15 new projects, USD 1.2 billion for climate action
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board has closed its twenty-eighth meeting, approving 15 new climate projects totaling USD 7.5 billion including USD 1.2 billion in GCF funding and USD 6.3 billion in co-financing, for low-...
Article > Press release 
Climate finance for sustaining peace and security
Your excellencies, distinguished guests,
Floods, fire, famine, disease, global mass displacement. A harrowing future awaits according to the latest IPCC report if we ignore the ultimate threat multiplier of climate...
Article > Speech
Niue launches community of practice to accelerate climate action in the Pacific
Niue initiated a community of practice that will increase engagement between the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and its Pacific Island partners, such as National Designated Authorities (NDAs) and regional and national...
Article > News update Niue 
Workshop forges direct links to country-led climate action
The Green Climate Fund has strengthened its country-driven approach to supporting global climate action with the conclusion today of the Empowering Direct Access workshop.
During the past four days, almost a hundred...
Article > Press release 
On the frontlines of climate change: Financing the largest community-based adaptation project in Vanuatu
‘We women depend on fishing along the coastline to provide fish for our families but most of our catch now are much smaller than the ones we caught here the past years,’ says Jennie Jenery, a villager from Efate Island...
Article > Story Vanuatu 
Decoding climate communication: stories to save the world
On 13 November at COP29, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), in collaboration with BBC Media Action, the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), hosted Decoding climate...
Article > News update 
Trustee
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In 2010, the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) invited the World Bank to serve as interim trustee of the Green Climate Fund. Its functions in this capacity...
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GCF workshop strengthens direct access to climate finance
The second GCF Empowering Direct Access workshop opens today to help developing countries progress innovative climate action that makes a difference at the local and global levels.
This is one of GCF’s most important...
Article > Press release 
GCF/2017/Inf.03 and Add.01 - Report on the response to queries in the Board – approved TOR for updating of GCF’s Gender Policy and Action Plan and Add.01
The GCF Board approved the Terms of Reference (TOR) for updating of GCF’s Gender Policy and Action Plan, as a decision between meetings (B.BM – 2016/12). The TOR contains questions in relation to the quality of the...
Board document > Information
Call for public input: REDD+ Results Based Payments
At the fourteenth meeting, through decision B.14/03, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) requested the Secretariat to develop “a request for proposals (RFP) for REDD+ results-based payments (RBP), including...
Document > Call for input
GCF/B.08/19 - Gender Policy and Action Plan
Following a decision B.05/22, the Fund’s Secretariat prepared GCF/B.06/13 Options for a Fund-wide Gender-sensitive Approach. At its sixth meeting the Board, having considered document GCF/B.06/13:
Requested the...
Board document > Action item