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XV World Forestry Congress
The World Forestry Congress (WFC) is the world’s largest forest-related event held every ... industry, and livelihoods. The XV WFC, which takes place for the first time in the Republic of Korea, is hosted ... and Resilient Future with Forests – gives prominence to climate change as the key driver of global environmental ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Develop a renewable energy investment framework to increase the share of renewable energy-based electricity generation to achieve Liberia’s NDC commitments
Liberia needs to attract national and international investments in ... to achieve its 30% by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050 commitments in the NDC. The proposed readiness support ... The central aim of this readiness support is to put in place the much needed policy, regulatory, and investment ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Liberia UNEP
Executive Director's opening remarks at the High-level Pledging Conference for GCF's second replenishment (GCF-2)
Excellencies, colleagues, and friends, Welcome to GCF’s second replenishment Pledging Conference. Let me ... remarkable leadership in climate finance. Thanks to the German leaders and team for being a steadfast ... and being here today in this remarkable/historical place is something I will certainly not forget and treasure. ...
Article > Speech 
Annual performance reporting on GCF funded activities through the updated PPMS
... review status. In the forthcoming webinar, the GCF aims to address historical challenges of reporting, by providing insights into ... in collaboration with GCF. The webinar will take place at two different times, allowing for participation ...
Event > Webinar 
Partnering on climate action in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
... partners from across eastern Europe and central Asia came together to accelerate their engagement with the Green ... and programme-related discussions and workshops are taking place to design projects within Green Climate Fund’s ... and central Asia. This has unlocked an additional USD 5.45 billion in co-finance, along with more than USD 59 ...
Article > News update North Macedonia 
Closer ties and progress forged at GCF’s Indigenous Peoples Advisory Group meeting
... Group convened its seventh meeting (IPAG-7) from 16 to 19 December 2025. Held at the GCF headquarters in Songdo, Republic of ... Global Conference with Indigenous Peoples, which will take place in April 2026. The IPAG also welcomed the inclusion of ...
Article > News update 
FP291 - ASCENT-GREEN: Resilient Energy Access for Inclusive Development
Eastern and Southern Africa are highly vulnerable to climate change, facing recurrent droughts, floods, ... are compounded by rapid population growth, projected to rise from around 749 million in 2023 to nearly 964 million by 2050, placing growing pressure on already overstretched ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries WorldBank 
FP005 - KawiSafi Ventures Fund
Creating a new investment fund, KawiSafi, to drive off-grid solar power in East Africa. Investing in 10-15 clean energy companies, initially in Rwanda and Kenya, providing household solar technologies. Aiming to drive a low-carbon paradigm shift and leapfrog fossil ...
Project > Private sector Kenya Rwanda Acumen 
Enhancing Direct Access
... Direct Access (EDA) pilot channels climate financing to homegrown organisations in developing countries. USD 200 ... for this pilot programme. The objective of this pilot is to enhance country ownership of projects and programmes ... whereby both funding decisions and project oversight take place at the national or regional level. This can be ...
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Accreditation
Overview Access to GCF resources is through entities accredited by the GCF Board (Accredited Entities or AEs). To access funding, these institutions will go through a ... initial part of the entire suite of GCF’s due diligence placed across an AE’s lifecycle of engagement with GCF, ...
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ED lecture
It is an honor to deliver the Barbara Ward Lecture this year. Barbara was a ... harvests that can lead to worsening hunger, poverty and displacement. Around 760 million people live without ... citizens independently generate solar PV power and then buy and sell it to one another using plug-and-play ...
Article > Speech
Strengthening ECOWAS institutional capacities and Member States' access to climate finance to support the implementation of the agriculture sectoral priorities of the ECOWAS Regional Climate Strategy
... Guinea Guinea-Bissau Mali Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo Strengthening ECOWAS institutional capacities and Member States' access to climate finance to support the implementation of the agriculture sectoral ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
Climate costs will rise sharply if we miss 1.5 degree target, GCF conference hears
... is a moral obligation, while inadequate action leading to global temperatures over 1.5 degrees Celsius will come with a heavy price. These were ... on Monday added a sense of urgency to discussions on how best to open up new low-emissions and climate resilient ...
Article > Press release 
Focus on adaptation planning at COP 23, surge in requests for GCF support
... arrangements,” said Youssef Nassef, Adaptation Director at the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). “We are dealing with uncertainty all the time in ... are approved or endorsed. “We are actively working to the best of our abilities with all countries that are seeking ...
Article > Press release 
GCF disburses finance to support Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon
The Green Climate Fund has begun disbursing resources to the first project it approved in Peru’s Amazon, ... project. Following approval by the GCF Board in November 2015, PROFONANPE conducted an extensive consultation process ... planet’s lungs.” Mr. Paniagua also pointed out that the best way to prevent deforestation and peatland degradation ...
Article > Press release Peru Profonanpe 
Harnessing climate science to guide climate investments
During a visit to the headquarters of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the ... to inform their investment decisions in order to choose the best climate action approaches that maximises impact,” ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). One area that generated discussion was strengthening ...
Article > Press release 
Global Programming Conference drives stronger GCF climate support
... partners now being held in Incheon, Republic of Korea, to strengthen its strategic support of climate action ... developing countries, including 50 Ministers, to chart the best ways to direct climate finance flows to match the ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and the Paris Agreement. Discussions between a broad ...
Article > Press release 
GCF's support for coral reefs
... on behalf of the Green Climate Fund, it is an honor to be part of this initiative to address the Coral Reef ... most vulnerable ecosystems to climate change on Earth. At 1.5 degrees C of warming, coral reefs will decline 70 to 90 ... to engage with the Coral Reefs Fund’s coalition on how to best leverage GCF’s strategic capabilities to support this ...
Article > Speech
Address at Green Horizon Summit
It is an honour to be invited to join this distinguished assembly of ... Based on existing trends, the world could cross the 1.5°C threshold within the next two decades and 2°C ... investment opportunities into bankable projects. Even the best wind resources in the world will not make wind energy ...
Article > Speech
GCF and CRDB Bank Plc. sign agreement to boost access to climate adaptation technologies for agribusinesses in Tanzania
... (TACATDP) . The FAA sets the legal groundwork for GCF to transfer its USD 100 million co-investment to CRDB in this USD 200 million programme. An estimated 90 ... planning and support agribusinesses in understanding best practices in climate-resilient agriculture. CRDB Bank ...
Article > News update 
Executive Director unveils “50by30” blueprint for reform, targeting USD 50 billion by 2030
... thank you for the confidence and trust as I step into my new role as Executive Director of the Green Climate ... efficiently and impactfully manage a capitalization of 50 billion, what we are calling 50 by 30. To get us there, ... understanding who they are, why they are vulnerable and how best to respond to their needs. USD 50 billion is a drop in ...
Article > Speech 
Bhutan’s King optimistic about climate solutions
... Climate Fund delegation had during the scoping mission to Bhutan from 26 August to 1 September 2018. The mission ... in the lead up to the Paris Agreement at the end of 2015 found that Bhutan absorbs three times more CO2 emissions ... we hope that Bhutan can become a model and example on how best to access resources from the GCF,” he added. The ...
Article > Press release Bhutan 
GCF Structured Dialogue shows strength and weakness of Asian climate approach
... Climate Fund's Structured Dialogue with Asia concludes today with an enhanced understanding of the need to tap regional growth to address climate change and to ... in the region by identifying country priorities which best match the Fund's established investment criteria . ...
Article > Press release Viet Nam 
Asian private sector ambition key to climate solution, Dialogue finds
Private sector ambitions driving the Asian economic powerhouse can be ... to tell GCF how the Fund should deploy its resources to best fit national needs. During the Dialogue, 19 Asian ... a recent government decision, we have now invested USD US1.5 billion to help kick start private sector support of ...
Article > Press release Indonesia 
Strengthening the foundation for a climate responsive agricultural sector in the Caribbean
Three of the top 10 countries facing the highest level of climate risk ... of the agriculture sector (Outcome 4.1). disseminate best practices for institutional capacity building, ... the innovative capacity of the region ́s youth (Outcome 5.1). Successfully realizing these key objectives will ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries IICA
Readiness: Delivery partners
... DAE support windows NDAs/focal points and DAEs may choose to implement readiness support through direct access or by ... leveraging the Secretariat’s support and systems put in place for this purpose. Given the complexity of integrated ... Project Preparation Facility Service Providers . Put in place a streamlined and transparent competitive selection ...
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GCF side event asks ‘what makes a good project?’
... 21 hosted by the Green Climate Fund on 2 December brought together over 500 participants for a discussion on how to create good ... identified its challenges, set specific goals, and put in place the frameworks. “We have the responsibility to be ...
Article > Press release 
GCF forum at COP26 finds big investment rise needed to decarbonise energy paths
Maintaining a 1.5 degrees Celsius global guardrail will require a fourfold ... International Energy Agency (IEA) Deputy Executive Director Mary Warlick issued this stark call for an urgent ... largest greenhouse gas contributor. Reflecting the crucial place of climate finance in ongoing COP26 negotiations, ...
Article > Press release 
Reflections by GCF experts on latest IPCC report – a glimmer of hope?
... on ecosystems, human society, our infrastructure and the places where we live. It also examines the feasibility and ... has caused widespread impacts, and losses and damages to nature and people, beyond natural climate variability. ... coming decades even if global warming can be held to the 1.5°C Paris Agreement goal. Exceeding this level even ...
Article > Insights 
Workshop forges direct links to country-led climate action
... Climate Fund has strengthened its country-driven approach to supporting global climate action with the conclusion ... Javier Manzanares emphasised the importance the Fund places in Direct Access Entities by highlighting how 80 ... year are direct access. That means over half of GCF’s 59 Accredited Entities are Direct Access Entities, he said. ...
Article > Press release CCCCC 