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Structured Dialogue with Least Developed Countries
... and the Least Developed Countries' constituency under the UNFCCC, organised the GCF Structured Dialogue with Least ... in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 19 to 22 November 2018. The forty-seven countries on the list of LDCs are some of the ... development. It also increased LDCs’ understanding of GCF latest modalities, procedures and development. The Dialogue ...
Event > Structured dialogue Ethiopia 
GCF Write Shop on Blue Co Caribbean
Blue Co is a proposed blended finance co-investment platform aimed at helping SIDS meet the Paris Agreement and ... Blue Co, an umbrella project which will lay the foundation for crowding in investments from all sources and at scale on ... Preparation Fund (PPF) request which (i) reflect the latest scientific data, (ii) build on existing plans and ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Bahamas 
GCF unveils new organisational structure to accelerate climate action
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) today unveiled the latest phase of its ambitious reform agenda to enhance efficiency and impact in supporting ... transition is part of GCF’s “50 by 30” vision and reform agenda , which aims to efficiently and impactfully ...
Article > News update 
Cook Islands become first Pacific state to receive GCF readiness funding
... Islands. “This is a fund that we have strongly advocated for. As a nation that is extremely vulnerable to the impacts ... new grant brings the total amount of resources disbursed for readiness activities to over USD 350,000, including to ... such countries, including three LDCs in Africa. “This latest disbursement demonstrates how GCF is rolling out its ...
Article > Press release Cook Islands 
GCF stresses need to highlight climate connection at Asia-Pacific Forestry Week
... Fund Deputy Executive Director Javier Manzanares called for enhanced efforts to link forest protection and climate action today ... warming to within 1.5 degrees Celsius, as indicated in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ...
Article > Press release 
The Green Climate Fund receives 2020 FutureEdge 50 Award from International Data Group, Inc. (IDG)
... 50 Award from IDG’s CIO. This prestigious honour is bestowed upon worldwide organisations pushing the edge with ... technologies to advance their business results and impact for the future. GCF received the award in recognition of its ... taking risks and pushing the envelope to capitalise on the latest technologies. I am very pleased and encouraged to see ...
Article > Press release 
GCF launches newly revised Readiness Guidebook and templates
... Proposal templates as part of the Fund’s ongoing efforts to streamline and enhance the Readiness Programme. Reflecting the latest developments, operational improvements and lessons ... beyond procedural guidance by providing inspirational tips for proposal conceptualisation and development; clear and ...
Article > News update 
Making blended finance work for adaptation
... at scale. First, we create an enabling environment for climate action by promoting integrated strategies, ... investments in order to establish a commercial track record for new adaptation solutions. And finally, we align finance ... 56 million Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund, including USD 26 million in GCF financing. ARAF will benefit 10 million ...
Article > Speech
Green stimulus in the post COVID-19 era and beyond
... path to carbon neutrality and its contribution to global efforts to maintain climate ambition in the era of COVID-19. ... most important problem of our generation". Next year’s UNFCCC Conference of Parties will be critical for climate ... countries alone are estimated at between $11 to US$ 26 trillion between now and 2030, but barriers to investment ...
Article > Speech
Indigenous Peoples
... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including in the Cancun Agreement. The preamble of ... the need to strengthen practices and efforts of local communities and Indigenous Peoples related to ... the local communities and Indigenous Peoples platform to help do this. The COP has further requested GCF ...
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Approved projects
... shifts in both mitigation and adaptation. The Fund aims for a 50:50 balance between mitigation and adaptation investments over time. It also aims for a floor of 50 percent of the adaptation allocation for ... States. For more detailed data about our projects please visit the GCF Open Data Library . Approved projects ...
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GCF/B.25/05 - Addressing gaps in the current portfolio for measurement
... initial resource mobilization period. Recommendations are informed by the independent review conducted by the ... the portfolio to determine the criticality and feasibility for remediation of the identified M&E gaps. Upon the ... project agreements, the Secretariat proposes to make best efforts to remediate all “moderate”, “elevated” ...
Board document > Action item
ADAPT Jamaica: Enhancing climate change resilience of vulnerable smallholders in Central Jamaica
... in Central Jamaica” project. The Concept Note (CN) for the ADAPT Jamaica project was endorsed by the Green ... (PPF) resources to assist Jamaica in completing the site-specific intervention analyses and feasibility studies ... of reference) will carry out the technical studies, field visits and stakeholder consultations and complete the ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Jamaica
GCF/B.08/20 - Further Development of the Initial Investment Framework
... requested the Investment Committee to submit the following for consideration to the eighth Board meeting, with ... recommendations from the Private Sector Advisory Group, before the Fund approves funding proposals: Definitions for ... benchmarks for each criterion, taking into account the best practices of other institutions; and Identification and ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.09/02 - Work Plan 2015
The year 2015 represents a landmark in multilateral efforts to address climate change as the world works towards a ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)’s financial mechanism, is a central piece in the ... its third meeting 2015” and the Secretariat to “use best efforts to have applications ready for consideration ...
Board document > Action item
Gender assessment for FP060: Water Sector Resilience Nexus for Sustainability in Barbados (WSRN S-Barbados)
... gender considerations into the final project to align with best local, regional and international gender policies and practices, (iii) identify gender issues relevant for water management highlighting the socio-political, ... activities designed to build capacity at the UWI Institute for Gender and Development Studies. It is anticipated that ...
Document > Gender assessment Barbados
GCF/B.28/04 - Addressing gaps in the current portfolio for measurement
... initial resource mobilization period. Recommendations are informed by the independent review conducted by the ... the portfolio to determine the criticality and feasibility for remediation of the identified M&E gaps. Upon the ... project agreements, the Secretariat proposes to make best efforts to remediate all “moderate”, “elevated” ...
Board document > Action item
Post Accreditation Support for the National Fund for Environment and Climate (FNEC) of Benin
... climate project justification Lack of FNEC’s Portforlio and pipeline , or pipeline of projects for the GCF Weak capacity of relevant actors and FNEC staff ... an operational manual and procedure that is in line with best practice including the GCF requirement in the context ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Benin
Stage 1 Accreditation support of Direct Access Entities for on-lending and/or blending fiduciary functions
Lao PDR has revised its NDC and put forth more ambitious targets to be achieved by 2030. They include setting the course for Lao PDR to achieve net-zero emission by 2050 on the ... in accreditation and scaling up climate change programmes/best practices. This Readiness grant aims to support the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Lao People's Democratic Republic (the)
REDD+ Readiness Preparation in Cuba
... Developing a robust NFMS with institutional frameworks for data generation and reporting, considering the role of ... interpretation of the Cancun safeguards and requirements for a robust SIS. Preparing a Forest Reference (Emissions) ... the forestry sector, and systematizing lessons learned and best practices for REDD+ in Latin America and the Caribbean ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cuba
Capacity building and accreditation support of Direct Access Entity to private banks for on-lending and/or blending fiduciary functions
... standards and requirements of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for on-lending instruments and blending fiduciary functions, ... strengthen institutional capacities and close gaps for accreditation (Outcome 1.2). Supporting the nominated ... knowledge products containing lessons learned and best practices extracted from other countries, benefiting ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cambodia
GCF and GEF harmonise steps to follow developing country lead in climate finance
... to take joint steps to improve climate finance flows to best meet the needs of developing countries in tackling the ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). “It is essential that we continue to strengthen the ... while speaking at a combined GCF-GEF ministerial dialogue before the GEF’s 6th Assembly , currently being held in Da ...
Article > Press release 
Tonga Country Programme
... (NDC) and the Energy Road Map. National thematic, site specific plans, sectors’ plans and district ...
Document > Country programme Tonga
Strengthening Pakistan's Capacities for DemoNstrating REDD+ Systems and Accessing Result-based Payments
... acceptable interventions aimed at reducing pressures on forestry resources at the demonstration sites with potential to upscale and replicate at the ... Pakistan Strengthening Pakistan's Capacities for DemoNstrating REDD+ Systems and Accessing Result-based ...
Document > Concept note Pakistan
Glemarec highlights role of GCF in boosting adaptation action at Korea Global Adaptation Week
... Glemarec has committed the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to reinforcing its support for adaptation in developing countries ... by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Korea Environment Institute (KEI), the Korea ... to climate change. For the week’s full programme, visit http://napexpo.org/2019/programme/ . Songdo Glemarec ...
Article > Press release 
UK pledges record $2 billion climate action funding for GCF at G20
... announcement of a USD 2 billion (£1.62 billion) pledge for its second replenishment (GCF-2). The announcement was ... UK contributed £1.44bn to the GCF’s first replenishment for the period 2020-23. Today’s announcement represents a ... to a warming world. For more information about GCF-2, visit here . UK pledges record $2 billion climate action ...
Article > Press release 
GCF rolls out new and improved Readiness Programme
... and planning and programming frameworks to achieve a transformational long-term climate action agenda. Readiness ... reference and competitively appoint the most qualified and best-suited delivery partners (DPs) from a list of ... more details about the revised Readiness Programme, please visit Readiness support . GCF rolls out new and improved ...
Article > News update 
Empowering Direct Access Workshop 2018
... with national priorities. It provided participants with information about GCF’s readiness programme , project ... and breakout sessions, the workshop promoted the sharing of best practices among Direct Access Entities as part of ... and Tourism, was in selecting national priorities that best fitted GCF's funding criteria. EIF was a star ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the) 
Partner agreements after Board meeting sign of faster GCF financing
... of implementation, reporting, disbursement and budgeting for each individual GCF climate initiative. As GCF ... end up having to negotiate financial transfer agreements for six months or 12 months after our projects’ ... approval. “Our Board last week approved USD 7.5 billion for 15 projects,” he said. “It was our largest project ...
Article > Press release 
Thematic brief: Oceans
... can sequester more carbon per unit area than terrestrial forests. At the same time, these coastal ecosystems ... economic activity attracting an estimated 70 million visitors annually with an associated expenditure of US $36 ... global impacts on marine ecosystems. Coral reefs for instance are facing unprecedented pressure from sea ...
Document > Thematic brief