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Enhancing the resilience of health systems to climate change and emerging pandemics in the Republic of Marshall Islands
... a small island developing state, is highly vulnerable to the health impacts of climate variability and change. ... expenditure on health at average exchange rate (USD) is 625.2 (2014) and there are approximately 40.1 skilled health ... the proposal aims to ensure the strategic frameworks are in place to support the MOHHS and partners build health system ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Marshall Islands
Readiness Support for the Development of Vanuatu National Energy Efficiency Strategy and Action Plan
... intervention includes energy efficiency (EE) measures to be pursued across the board to enable 15% savings in the energy sector. This proposal seeks a GCF ... and action to upscale EE at the national level by having in place an overarching policy framework that would serve to ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Vanuatu
GCF convenes partners to bolster climate action amid global uncertainty
GCF will host two major conferences next week, bringing together Ministers and national leaders, Chief Executives ... Programming Conference (GPC) will be held from 13 to 15 September in Incheon, Republic of Korea. The GCF Private ... of Korea and virtual participation. Both events are taking place two months ahead of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh and come ...
Article > News update 
Enhancing Direct Access to Climate Finance in Fiji – Phase 2
... infrastructure costs.1 The current average asset losses due to tropical cyclones and floods are estimated at more than FJD 500 million per year, representing more than 5% of Fiji’s ... for 2050.3The Fijian Government has taken steps to put in place the policies and strategies needed to coordinate and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Fiji
GCF conference opens with calls from developing countries for increased finance for climate action
... a broad range of partners in the Republic of Korea to discuss how to increase momentum for climate action in the face of ... uncertainty. The Global Programming Conference (GPC) takes place shortly after GCF launched its second replenishment , ...
Article > Press release 
COP27 summit host Egypt is first country to adopt Climate Investment Plan in partnership with Green Climate Fund
... have announced that Egypt will be the first country to adopt a Climate Investment Plan – a move which could significantly accelerate efforts by Egypt to combat climate change by unlocking new investment. The ... capital and a country-driven approach, GCF is well placed to forge collaborations between diverse investment ...
Article > Press release Egypt 
Executive Director’s remarks
... crisis has infected every corner of the world, and every sector of operation. The health of people -not just of the ... highly susceptible to climate change. Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately ... the leadership of the UAE in ensuring health takes its place centre stage. Today, on behalf of the Green Climate ...
Article > Speech
How a cloud database is protecting forests and communities in Laos
... long ago, this area faced the threat of illegal logging. Today, strengthened community agreements and targeted ... in the area decreased by 40 per cent, protecting over 500 hectares of forest. Over 240 Village Forest Management ... ensuring that important files are stored securely in one place.” Xay Jujerchang, Provincial Coordinator, Huaphan ...
Article > Story Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) 
Green Climate Fund approves first 8 investments
Board gears up to larger scale projects in the near future The Green ... by making its first funding decisions ahead of the UNFCCC Paris climate conference. With climate finance being a ... year. The 12th meeting of the GCF Board will take place in the week of 7 March 2016 at GCF Headquarters in ...
Article > Press release Zambia 
GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference 2020
... Investment for Climate Conference (GPIC) explored how to generate the private sector investments needed to create ... a timely opportunity to share experiences, innovations and best practices for scaling up public-private partnerships. ... to shift portfolios towards climate-friendly investments. 55 speakers 134 countries represented Over 2200 participants ...
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Barbados launches the world's first debt-for-climate-resilience conversion
... USD 125 million in fiscal savings which will be channeled into new resilience investments. The debt conversion ... including the Green Climate Fund (GCF), Barbados replaced outstanding, more expensive debt with more affordable ... They found that the Framework aligns with international best practices, assessing the Key Performance Indicator ...
Article > Press release Barbados 
GCF leaves COP30 ready to ramp up climate finance
... its activities at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, prepared to ramp up its operations to help implement the new global ... efforts. The Framework aligns GCF and partners on LLCA best practices to increase investments that support devolved ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Its reforms have revamped the accreditation process, ...
Article > News update 
Empowering climate-friendly cookstove producers and driving sustainable market growth in Kenya and Senegal
While access to clean cooking has increased in recent years, ... has yielded strong results in Kenya and Senegal. More than 5.7 million tons of CO₂ cumulatively reduced to date ... I had no home; now I own a home, and my children go to the best school. It’s all because of the hard work I put into ...
Article > Story Kenya Senegal 
A tribute to Leo Paat Jr.
... months after being diagnosed with the virus upon his return to Korea from a GCF Board meeting. Leo left behind family, ... by the Board in 2019. The process of moving beyond the IFC’s Performance Standards and developing GCF’s own ESS ... learned. It will be guided by evolving international best practices, with the aim of establishing a framework to ...
Article > Story 
GCF support to the Great Green Wall
... Sahel, Africa that traverses from Senegal coast in the west to Sudan in the east is particularly vulnerable to climate change ( Figure 1 ). Temperatures rising 1.5 times faster than the rest of the world are causing more ...
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GCF Board approves over USD 1 billion in funding for climate mitigation and adaptation
... Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting of 2018 concluded today after approving 23 projects, valued together at USD 1,093.5 million of GCF funding. The new approvals bring the GCF ... GCF website . The next GCF Board meeting, B.20, will take place from 1-4 July 2018, in Songdo, Republic of Korea. ...
Article > Press release 
The International Development Finance Club and the Green Climate Fund join forces to support Public Development Banks in financing the green transition
... 2020 – The International Development Finance Club (IDFC), the international network of leading national and ... financer of climate action in developing countries, have today launched a joint publication examining how Public ... better protect our planet and societies. The Summit takes place on the sidelines of and in partnership with the Paris ...
Article > Press release 
Financing climate ambition in the context of COVID-19
... you very much, Barbara. It’s an honour and a pleasure to be joining Patrick and Alzbeta in this conversation. ... of Climate Business, International Finance Corporation (IFC)] At the onset I would like to thank the governments of ... first summit of the public development banks that will take place in November. Thank you very much. Petersberg Climate ...
Article > Speech
ED opening remarks
... of the Gabonese Republic, Mr Selwin Hart, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Climate Action and Assistant ... 2019. Ultimately though, this climate finance under the UNFCC needs to be used in a highly catalytic way so that we ... in low emission climate resilient infrastructure is to take place in the coming decades. But this is not happening, ...
Article > Speech
Ministerial forum on forest finance
... and Land Use, where leaders from 141 countries committed to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030 ... year-on-year, showing the strong interest among voluntary buyers for REDD+ credits. In response to the mandate given ... to close the climate and nature financing gap, GCF’s places a strong emphasis on co-benefits and safeguards and ...
Article > Speech
Unlocking capital for climate action
... Korea, with leading figures from the public and private sectors pledging to work in partnership to find innovative ways ... capital for climate action. The two-day event took place from September 15-16 and heard from Chief Executives and business leaders, ...
Article > Press release 
GCF portfolio reaches USD 11.3 billion with new climate projects approved by the GCF Board
... of Korea, approved nine new climate projects worth USD 544.1 million in GCF funding and USD 1.7 billion with ... billion with co-financing. In line with GCF’s efforts to increase access to its resources, the Board adopted an ... in many fronts, with several policies and frameworks put in place to help increase access of developing countries to GCF ...
Article > Press release 
Green Climate Fund: USD 736 million for new projects and readiness strategy to accelerate climate action
... the three-day meeting, the Board approved 15 proposals totaling USD 736.4 million to fund new climate projects in ... climate finance access for developing countries. This places climate action front and centre transforming the ... in Barbados with International Finance Corporation (IFC). SAP030: Strengthening Climate Resilience of the Lao ...
Article > Press release 
Supporting women’s local businesses and climate-friendly cookstoves in Kenya
About 15 per cent of the energy demand worldwide is met by classic ... releases greenhouse gases (GHG). Using improved cookstoves (ICS) instead of open hearths could save emissions ... only about 20 ceramic liners a month. To make them, she places a clay mixture in a mould to shape it into a liner. ...
Article > Story Kenya 
Rapid climate action: Eight newly approved projects set for implementation
... Green Climate Fund’s 40th Board meeting (B.40) , which took place on 21-24 October 2024 in Incheon, Republic of Korea. ... investment of USD 16 billion and an overall total of USD 61.5 billion with co-financing. Before a project can launch, ...
Article > News update 
Multilateralism must be at the core of our climate response
... Global Environment Facility (GEF) - the MCFs committed to increasing synergies between them and reported on their ... on reaching agreement over a new climate finance goal to replace the Paris Agreement pledge of at least $100 billion ... change and implement the global goal on adaptation. UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell has called this a ...
Article > Statement 
Accelerating climate action to communities: seven new projects set for implementation
... Green Climate Fund’s 41st Board meeting (B.41) , which took place on 17-20 February 2025. At the Fund’s first Board meeting of the year, the ...
Article > News update 
The Green Climate Fund achieves record-breaking year as Board channels USD 3.26 billion to developing countries in 2025
... for climate action around the world. The USD 1.332 billion total is the largest amount approved at a GCF Board meeting ... on its 50 by 30 vision with more impactful projects in more places. The Jordan-Aqaba project is a transformative case in ... Project (AAWDCP) with International Finance Corporation (IFC) More information about the projects can be accessed here ...
Article > Press release 
Annual Report 2023
... year for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) with several milestones: the culmination of its 2020-2023 programming period ... GCF Private Investment for Climate (GPIC) conference took place in September 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: ©GCF/ PR ... in response to the intensifying climate crisis. Besides UNFCCC and UNDP, GCF is part of an interim secretariat for the ...
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