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The global water crisis: A call to action for climate and water initiatives
... visible every day. Urgent and courageous steps are needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement. The water sector is both a connector of climate change's consequences and a key player in adaptation and mitigation efforts. At World Water Week 2023 , global leaders and experts ...
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Running dry: Racing against time to secure our water future
Despite global commitments to achieve 2030 targets related to climate, sustainable development, and disaster risk ... and commitments made during these events provide a roadmap for building a water-secure world. Collaboration between ...
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Mobilising financing for agricultural technologies: seeding a climate resilient and food-secure future
... the last 100 years, agriculture has scaled up like never before to feed the world’s growing population. This growth comes ... food production and security. From altered weather patterns to soil degradation, biodiversity loss, and an increase in ...
Article > Story Multiple countries 
Innovating agriculture through the power of nature and tech
... soybeans, cereal, and wheat. In 2021, the agriculture sector accounted for 15.7 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), seeing ... in crop production and an expansion in overall land devoted to agriculture over the past few decades. But this Latin ...
Article > Story GIZ 
Turning down the heat
In Bangladesh, over 33 million children are forced to stay home for days as the sweltering heat makes school too dangerous. “I went to the school with my 13-year-old ...
Article > Story Bangladesh WorldBank 
Ecuador’s bold bet on mangroves: A climate solution rooted in community and capital
... ECUADOR — On the edge of the Pacific, where land blurs into water and roots tangle beneath the tide, Ecuador’s mangrove forests stand as some of the planet’s most efficient ... ecosystems have been depleted and decimated, largely due to urbanisation and commercial shrimp farming. A ...
Article > Story Ecuador 
GCF signs six new project agreements after 36th Board meeting
Six project agreements for climate action were signed by the Green Climate Fund ... Fund’s increasing speed in moving projects from approval to implementation on the ground. The projects will increase ... and awareness about the impacts of climate change. SAP026: Extended Community Climate Change Project-Drought ...
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Country commitments and ambitions
... principles of GCF. One of our operational priorities is to ensure that the we are responsive to the needs and priorities of developing countries. Every ... change. The Paris Agreement shows that countries are ready to work together in response. But the targets, priorities, ...
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EBRD and Green Climate Fund join forces to support major renewable energy project in Egypt
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are teaming up to make a major contribution to a USD$ 1 billion renewable energy project in Egypt. The ...
Article > Press release Egypt EBRD 
GCF's first REDD+ results-based payment boosts financial incentive to protect forests
The Green Climate Fund's recent decision to pay Brazil USD 96.5 million for keeping Amazon forests standing in 2014 and 2015 shows ... point in helping turn REDD+ from a topic of years of UNFCCC negotiations into payments for achievement of past ...
Article > Press release Brazil 
Structured Dialogue with Eastern Europe and Central Asia connects climate ambition to climate finance
... Dialogue with Eastern Europe and Central Asia which ended today in Dushanbe. The last four days saw over 130 ... from 13 countries in the region taking part in discussions to strengthen their climate partnership with the Green ... fully implement the Paris Agreement, to increase ambition for climate change not to put in danger the future of our ...
Article > Press release Tajikistan 
GCF launches Simplified Approvals Process for faster, simpler approval of small-scale projects
The Green Climate Fund today announced the launch of its Simplified Approvals ... The new process streamlines and simplifies applications for certain small-scale projects of up to USD 10 million in ... he said at ‘ Direct Access Day ’ held at the 23rd UNFCCC Conference of the Parties in Bonn where the ...
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GCF talks renewable energy with Alliance of Small Island States
... of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) from 10 to 11 October in Malé. The AOSIS meeting focused on advancing the Initiative for Renewable Island Energy (IRIE), which was announced at ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries 
GCF Regional workshop to help advance climate action in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
... countries are gathered in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi for a three-day Green Climate Fund workshop to advance their engagement with the Fund and to expedite their access to the Fund’s resources for ...
Article > Press release Georgia 
Deutsche Bank signs Accreditation Master Agreement with Green Climate Fund
Deutsche Bank today signed an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) with ... capital and increase contributions to climate financing for adaptation and greenhouse gas mitigation measures in ... Green Climate Fund and its partners, and act as a prerequisite for the disbursement of GCF-approved climate projects. ...
Article > Press release DeutscheBank 
GCF scopes forest funding path after workshop
GCF is currently exploring ways to help countries keep their forests intact while also dealing with climate change ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Mr Velasco pointed to the key role REDD+ is now ...
Article > Press release Indonesia 
Papua New Guinea zooms in on GCF at first national workshop
... workshop held on 29 November in Papua New Guinea (PNG) to advance the country’s climate agenda and its access to the Fund. Co-organized by the Government of PNG, the ... the types of proposals in the pipeline and potential areas for further exploration. On readiness, Mr. Ruel Yamuna from ...
Article > Press release Papua New Guinea 
GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference 2019
The GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference ("GPIC") is a global marketplace and ecosystem where leading private sector actors including project sponsors, institutional investors, ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the) 
GCF leadership dialogue in the margins of the 75th United Nations General Assembly
Tipping point or turning point: Global solidarity for an inclusive, resilient recovery As the ... recovery is dependent on global solidarity and leadership to catalyse a paradigm shift towards sustainable development for all. As the world’s ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Reduce Sao Tome and Principe’s vulnerability to climate change impacts by strengthening the Country’s capacity to implement an integrated approach to adaptation planning
Sao Tome and Principe (STP) is one of the most vulnerable countries to the effects of Climate Change due to its geography and ... to establish an institutional, legal and policy framework for climate change in the country, several challenges remain ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Sao Tome and Principe UNEP
IGREENFIN project and GCF Umbrella Program for the Great Green Wall Initiative
The SAP012 IFAD-Niger project “Inclusive Green Financing for Climate Resilient and Low Emission Smallholder ... region. IGREENFIN initiative provides a regional approach to enable a market for investments on adaptation, mitigation ... supporttheestablishmentofgreenlinesofcreditand the capacity building of both supply (banks) and ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries IFAD
Increasing resilience through Nature based Solutions in Latin American cities (Nature4Cities Latam)
... change makes regional cities more vulnerable: according to the Climate Change Vulnerability Index, 48% of the capital cities in LAC show “extreme risk” to the effects of climate change. This is of considerable ... and contributing to flexible planning in line with transformations and changes. The use of ecosystems for urban ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries UNEP
Increasing the ambition of the Nationally Determined Contributions and climate financing in the Central America
... climate commitments are insufficient if global warming is to be limited at 2oC and even more inadequate if a 1.5oC ... America is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change. The region is already exposed to multiple ... need to take into account the regional integration efforts and align their mechanisms and instruments (e.g., MRV ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries UNEP
Enhancing climate finance and investment in LAC banking sector
The Financial Sector plays a fundamental role in mobilizing the resources necessary to finance a low carbon economy, both through their activity ... be affected by the negative consequences on the economy of, for example, an abrupt transition. Banks also face the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
Post COVID-19 Green Recovery for Food, Health, and Water Security strengthened by financial and technological innovations in Latin-American countries
... economy – both directly and through necessary measures to contain the spread of the virus. These impacts are also being felt by the food and agriculture sector. While the supply of food has held up well to date, in ... experiencing a substantial shift in the composition and – for some commodities – the level of demand. As the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
Low Carbon Transport Dominica
The Commonwealth of Dominica is a SIDS vulnerable to climate change and heavily dependent on imported fossil ... fuels. The Nationally Determined Contribution has as target to reduce absolute Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 44.7% ... transport / emission modelling (ii) lack of know-how and information to assess viable mitigation options for the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Dominica
Developing a climate resilient health system in The Bahamas
... the country’s health system. The Bahamas is now required to balance and manage preparatory and disaster response mechanisms during an active 2020 ... areas of 1) climate change and health policy, 2) health workforce, 3) community/civil society engagement, 4) climate ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bahamas CCCCC
Development of Guyana’s National Climate Finance Strategy, MRV System and Project Pipeline to Support NDC Implementation
... launched in 2009 and later updated in 2013 as the document to guide Guyana’s economic development at the same time ... LCDS and National Climate Change Policy recognize the need for increased climate finance in order to develop and ... Change (OECC) to improve the quality of Guyana’s UNFCCC reporting obligations. the improvement of National GHGs ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Guyana GGGI
Institutionalizing a common framework for climate finance MRV to enhance complementarity and coherence for climate action in CARICOM States
... critical capacities in low carbon-climate resilient sectors, is a challenge which the Caribbean region is working ... climate action funded by other sources of climate finance, forms part of this readiness. As the region continues to ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Biennial Transparency Reports will be required from ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries CDB
Capacity Building to Monitor the Agriculture, Forest and Other Land-Use Sector in the National Determined Contributions, and enhancement of Climate Finance Access in the Plurinational State of Bolivia
The Plurinational State of Bolivia is highly vulnerable to climate change, generating and exacerbating droughts, ... that depend on agriculture activities, systems of agroforestry, forest managements, among other economic ... of Bolivia's compliance towards the commitments to the UNFCCC. It is also in charge of the review of Bolivia's NDCs ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bolivia (Plurinational State of) FAO