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... have already arrived on her island, and she’s driven to have her voice heard. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is ... closely on the ground with communities across the Pacific to help them act against climate change. We asked Mary how ... life. Mary uses her traditional dugout canoe to catch fish for her children to eat, but the produce she grows in her ...

In the coastal neighbourhood of Litoral in Manzanillo, Cuba, the sea is both a lifeline and a threat. Every time a storm darkens the sky, families like Martha Labrada’s brace for evacuation. And even on calm days, saltwater seeps ...

... Institute (GGGI), hosted Decoding climate communication: stories to save the world.  As GCF’s first climate communication event, it aimed to highlight the transformative power of effective climate communication. In ...

... the San Jorge, the Cauca and the Magdalena.  The junction forms part of one of the world’s largest wetlands, a ... arteries, supporting an array of ecosystems integral to local livelihoods and culture. For more than 2,000 years, ... on track to complete the 5-year programme with UAIIN by 2026. The project has also been working with the Alexander Von ...

... Green Climate Fund’s  41st Board meeting (B.41) , which took place on 17-20 February 2025. At the Fund’s first ... (USD 1.5 billion with co-financing) in GCF investment for 11 new projects in 42 countries. This brings the GCF ... uncertainty in climate change-driven tuna redistribution. FP260: Enhancing the resilience of Serbian forests to ensure ...

A new Green Climate Fund pilot for REDD+ results-based payments is helping put the Paris Agreement into action, participants at an event during the global ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) currently convening in Bonn, Germany. Article 5 of the ...

To get back on track to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in line with ... political commitments and financing is needed, especially for climate action in developing countries being hit hard by ...

Although the African continent is responsible for only three per cent of the world's human-induced ... greenhouse gas emissions each year, it is expected to suffer some of the most severe consequences of climate ... manufacturing capacity, and economy are necessary to helpthe continent's  adapt and mitigate the effects of ...

... State (SIDS) is one of the most vulnerable nations to climate change and faces many unique challenges. Rising ... of its people at risk. The country is taking steps to restore water security on its most vulnerable outer ... the Maldives Meteorological Service to enhance weather forecasting and enable improved harvesting of rainwater. New ...

... backed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are on track for implementation, with two projects setting record times ... for rapid delivery. Steps were accelerated by the Fund to get projects out-the-door as quickly as possible upon ... with a project in Bhutan moving from Board approval to FAA signing to first disbursement in just one day and a ...

... Germany and Norway that they will double their commitment to the Fund, GCF’s COP24 side event yesterday helped to maintain this positive momentum , reviewing the ... through a series of country meetings to accelerate support for national-level climate action including readiness ...

The GCF high level side event today featured calls to action from developing countries, and encouragement to greater ambition for the GCF replenishment from Germany and Norway in ...

... as well as negotiations, signings and lots of meetings. Tomorrow promises to be even busier, starting with a joint GEF - GCF event, ... on climate finance, and also on the guidance to GCF for next year, which is reflecting some of the more general ...

... and GCF offered its vision of leveraging climate finance for country-driven transformation and catalytic investment during the session. Climate finance needs to be accurately targeted, and GCF also announced today a new partnership with the World Meteorological ...

GCF has a strong focus on the role of the private sector today in Katowice. Colleagues from GCF's Private Sector Facility led an event on Green Banking, before signing a private sector project agreement that will ...

... the first week of the COP, negotiating texts are starting to be slimmed down, reducing in size and removing the ... is clear, there are many tricky questions to resolve, for example how to report, when to report - and even who ... an operating entity of the financial mechanism to the UNFCCC, GCF will certainly play a key role - whichever way the ...

... being selected within constituencies and regional groups before the current three-year term of the Board concludes at ... and regional groups, whose chairs and coordinators have been invited to notify the GCF Secretariat the names of the selected ...

... signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 7 March 2018 to enhance cooperation in institutional integrity issues and investigative activities in relation to prohibited practices. The MoU complements the ... The cooperation agreement covers areas ranging from information-sharing to detection and prevention of fraud, ...

... from his previous role as the Government of Jamaica's Solicitor General. He comes to GCF with a wealth of experience in legal affairs, ... He holds the rank of Queen's Counsel, a position reserved for persons who have distinguished themselves at the bar in ...

... the world’s largest development financial institution, to coordinate their activities in promoting climate action. ... the agreement – signed recently by GCF Executive Director Howard Bamsey and CDB Vice President Zhang Xuguang – ... Established in 1994, CDB is the largest Chinese bank for foreign investment and financing cooperation, long-term ...

... receiving concept notes and funding proposals in response to its pilot programme for REDD+ results-based payments. This follows a decision at ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The five-year pilot marks a major milestone for the ...

... Integrity Unit (IIU) is strengthening its collaborative efforts with the Integrity and Compliance Office (ICO) of the ... integrity issues and investigative activities relating to Prohibited Practices . The recently signed MoU ... which contains a clause requiring the Accredited Entity to provide the IIU with reasonable assistance in carrying ...

Green Climate Fund Executive Director Howard Bamsey spoke about GCF's efforts to mainstream gender throughout its activities in a ...

... take greater control of their destinies, the Executive Director of the Micronesia Conservation Trust (MCT), William Kostka, said today. “Enhanced access to climate finance will help us ... MCT is one of GCF’s direct access Accredited Entities forging low-emission and climate resilient paths in Small ...

The Green Climate Fund Board opens its eighteenth meeting today. This third meeting of the GCF Board this year is ... the Fund's operations as well as reviewing applications for accreditation from five new organisations, all of which ... of Board meetings are live-streamed on the GCF website . Egypt Cairo GCF Board meets in Egypt to develop ...

The Green Climate Fund has disbursed USD 296,000 to Vanuatu to increase this vulnerable island country’s capacity to ... change and disaster risk reduction more closely in its efforts to progress national development. At the end of last ...

... from countries in the Caribbean region are in Belize for a four-day Green Climate Fund (GCF) regional meeting to advance collaboration with the Fund and accelerate access ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Welcoming participants on behalf of the Government of ...

The Green Climate Fund Board opened its 16th meeting today at GCF Headquarters in Songdo, Republic of Korea. Over ... include GCF’s proposal approval process; the process for the selection of the Permanent Trustee; GCF’s ... Plan. The 16th meeting welcomes several new members to the Board, which is being co-chaired by Mr. Ayman Shasly ...

The Government of the Independent State of Samoa today signed an agreement with the Green Climate Fund to ... granting of Privileges and Immunities is highly important for the effective operationalisation of the Fund’s ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), governments recommended that Parties to the UNFCCC ...