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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 ...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) today announced the approval of its first grants in support of processes to develop National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). Under the GCF's ... Plans. The Board adopted the decision to expedite support for the formulation and implementation of National ...

... Fund has selected Mr. Howard Bamsey as the Executive Director of the Fund’s Secretariat. The decision was taken by ... meeting, following an extensive global recruitment process to select a new head of the Secretariat. Mr. Bamsey, an Australian national, is the former Director-General of the Global Green Growth Institute ...

The fourteenth meeting of the GCF Board commences today at the Fund’s headquarters in Songdo. Over the next ... proposals. The project and programme proposals have a total project value of more than USD 2.7 billion, with requests for GCF funding totaling USD 787.8 million. The Board will ...

Mr. Javier Manzanares has become the Executive Director ad interim of the Green Climate Fund Secretariat. Mr. ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with the goal of supporting climate resilient and low ... Ms. Hela Cheikrouhou on her appointment as Minister for Energy, Mining and Renewables in the new Tunisian ...

... Meeting, 28-30 June 2016, the GCF Board endorsed a Request for Proposals (RFP) to identify qualified financial institutions that will ... the launch of a pilot phase for additional modalities to enhance direct access. This first phase will provide an ...

The GCF website has received several significant updates to make its online presence more interactive. The Fund's ... by the GCF Board to date. It will serve as a main information hub for all forthcoming projects and programes ...

... of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board will be live web-cast to enable the broader GCF stakeholder community to follow ... of the sessions. The live web-casting will make it possible for proceedings to be followed from anywhere, via a ... The link to the web-cast will be available on the GCF website ahead of the meeting and communicated through a ...

The Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund, Ms. Héla Cheikhrouhou announced today she will step down in September 2016, at the end of ... Board to secure the approval of USD 168 million in funding for its first round of eight projects and programmes, ...

... climate finance, thereby supporting the achievement of UNFCCC’s climate change objectives. So far, the Fund has ... its first projects last month. But what does it need to do in order to realize its ambitious mandate? And how can the Fund move forward at the speed required, while also ensuring that it ...

His Excellency Macky Sall, President of Senegal, today used his address to the plenary of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties to highlight the importance of climate finance, calling for the Green Climate Fund to receive sufficient resources ...

... of the Green Climate Fund Board has opened in Livingstone, Zambia. The meeting takes place from 2 to 5 November with the approval of the first projects for the Fund high on the Board’s agenda. Co-Chairs Henrik ...

On 9 October 2015, the Green Climate Fund Executive Director ... this occasion, Executive Director Héla Cheikhrouhou called for the Paris Agreement to ensure that the Financial ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is scaled up substantially and on an ongoing basis. ...

... in New York, the event is part of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. The high-level event will bring together high-level representatives from governments, GCF ... entities, UN agencies, financial institutions, private sector and civil society. The event will include panel ...

GCF is holding a side event during the UNFCCC climate talks on Friday to discuss how an ambitious replenishment of GCF will ... including H.E. Ms Lorena Aguilar Revelo, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Costa Rica, H.E. Ms Janine Felson, ...

... applied in the United Nations system. GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec and the Maldives Environment Minister ... signing, noting the conclusion of such agreements establish formal political relationships between GCF and the countries ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), governments recommended that Parties to the UNFCCC ...

Local women are leading the restoration of north Colombian wetlands to reverse degradation from decades of unsustainable farming. Bringing life back to this vital ecosystem in Colombia’s La Mojana region ...

... 2019) re-emphasized with serious concern the urgent need to address the significant gap between the aggregate effect of Parties’ mitigation efforts in terms of global annual emissions of greenhouse ... to prepare new/updated NDCs and communicate these to the UNFCCC secretariat by 2020. This represents a major ...

... Programming Manual , the webinar will allow stakeholders to have an in-depth overview and seek clarifications on the processes related to project origination, development, appraisal, approval and ... approval process, as adopted by the Board, to its stakeholders, including national designated ...

... side event of the third annual GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference  provides participants with an ... GCF accredited entities and partners proposing private sector investments to the GCF can benefit from the use of the GCF Simplified ...

The 27th Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting begins today. The five-day, virtual meeting will ... which would collectively invest over USD 1 billion for climate action in developing countries.  If all are ... GCF’s current portfolio of allocated climate finance to USD 7.2 billion and a total of USD 23.2 ...

In connection with the GCF Sectoral Guides Consultation launched on 9 November 2020, this webinar will present the draft GCF Sectoral Guide on Cities, Buildings and Urban Systems and ... the relevant sector. It also aims to identify opportunities for high impact, paradigm-shifting investments in each ...

... (WRI) in partnership with the GCF.   This webinar aims to engage partners involved in locally led climate action, ...

Division of Country Programming will host the Transformational Climate Financing for the Caribbean Region​al Engagement, to be held as a virtual event on 1-5 March 2021. This event ... Delivery  Partners and other relevant GCF Stakeholders to improve access to and mobilization of urgently needed ...

The session is organized by the International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) as part of the ... January 2021 at 12:00 BST / 15:00 KST. This session aims to engage partners involved in locally led climate action in ... (EDA) pilot and its recently released EDA guidelines , and to draw from partners’ insights and practical experience ...

... the GCF Secretariat launched the Digital Accreditation Platform (DAP) – a one-stop shop for Accredited Entities (AEs) to address all stages in the lifecycle related to ...

... Accredited Entities and other stakeholders are invited to participate in an interactive discussion on how GCF Country Programmes will be actively used to translate nationally determined contributions (NDCs), ... programmes, identify the top priority projects ideas for each country or region, preferred AEs and how to ...

Following the publication of the Methodology for establishing a baseline of greenhouse gas emissions and ... organizing a training workshop for relevant stakeholders, to be held on 8 April 2021 at the following times: Session ... The Training workshop will cover AEs questions and comments to the document collected via the registration form and ...

In connection with the Draft GCF Sectoral Guides Consultation launched on 30 March 2021 to 30 June 2021, this webinar will present the draft GCF ... the relevant sector. It also aims to identify opportunities for high impact, paradigm-shifting investments in each ...

In connection with the Draft GCF Sectoral Guides Consultation launched on 30 March 2021 to 30 June 2021, this webinar will present the draft GCF Sectoral Guide on Forests & Land Use , followed by a Q&A session. The ...