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47 countries express interest in hosting a GCF regional presence
The Call for Proposals to host a regional presence of the Green ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Proposed host cities must be classified as A or B per ...
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Social protection: Investing in reform and resilience
... ecosystems, soils and biodiversity, they share a story of climate vulnerability. But more importantly, they also tell a common story of ground-up resilience and innovation: putting ... and labour market interventions, protect people before, during, and after climate shocks. Social protection is ...
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New partnership to mobilise private capital for climate solutions in emerging markets
... of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 14 November 2025 to collaborate on mobilising private institutional capital for investment in climate solutions in developing countries ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is mandated to support low-emission, ...
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Strengthening Thailand’s climate adaptation capacity with Readiness support from the Green Climate Fund
... (GCF), hosted a national consultation workshop in Bangkok to identify Thailand’s climate adaptation gaps and needs. ... Readiness project, Enhancing Thailand’s Capacity for Climate Adaptation through Risk-informed Anticipatory Actions to Flood and Drought , which was designed to ...
Article > News update Thailand 
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, ... the Indigenous Peoples Policy and set strategic priorities for enhancing Indigenous Peoples' access to climate finance. ... Peoples. The discussions focused on several key areas for 2026, which included establishing GCF’s approach on direct ...
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Supporting women’s local businesses and climate-friendly cookstoves in Kenya
... more than 80 per cent of Kenya’s population uses biomass for cooking and heating. The combustion of these materials ... releases greenhouse gases (GHG). Using improved cookstoves (ICS) instead of open hearths could save emissions equivalent to 0.6–2.4 gigatonnes of CO₂ each year. To combat ...
Article > Story Kenya 
Project safeguards
... managing environmental and social risks in relation to its activities, as well as implementing an Indigenous People’s Policy to reflect the importance of fully and effectively engaging ... of its operations as an essential decision-making element for the deployment of its resources. Project safeguards ...
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Gender
... disasters is higher than that of men. Compared to men, domestic burdens (e.g. collection of firewood and ... with various manifestations of climate change. Women tend to rely more on natural resources for their livelihood. Any decline in land and biomass ...
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GCF funded India solar rooftop programme kicks off
... marks the start of the implementation of the GCF solar rooftop programme in India. The trustee of the Green Climate Fund transferred the funds for the first GCF private sector project in the country to NABARD, which was converted ...
Article > Press release India 
GCF first replenishment meeting reinforces the role of the Fund to drive climate action
Hosted by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the meeting brought together 27 potential contributors and 9 Board members to ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and serves the Paris Agreement. Over the five years ...
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GCF publishes the revised funding proposal schedule for B.23 and B.24
The Green Climate Fund has published the revised timeline for its twenty-third Board meeting and the tentative ... the decision by the Board at the twenty-second meeting to hold B.23 from 6 to 8 July 2019 in Songdo, Incheon, ... The report/s shall be disclosed (i) in the AE’s website, (ii) in locations convenient to affected peoples, and ...
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GCF and GEF join forces with Lao PDR to advance climate action
The Government of Lao PDR is leading the way to ensure complementarity and coherence in its programming plans for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Global Environment ... the operating entities of the financial mechanism of the UNFCCC. It is the first country to host a joint mission of GCF ...
Article > Press release Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) 
GCF supports Indonesia's energy transition with de-risking geothermal development
Indonesia's geothermal potential is estimated to be 29 GW, which is about 40 percent of the world's known ... million to support exploration and resource confirmation for 1GW to 1.5 GW geothermal energy. This translates to ... Telep Renewable Energy Senior Specialist +82 32 458 6326 Indonesia Songdo FP083 GCF supports Indonesia's energy ...
Article > Story Indonesia 
Agreement set to increase India's rooftop solar reach
... of solar energy across India received a further boost today with the signing of an agreement between the Green Climate Fund and India’s National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). The signing ... of the Funded Activity Agreement paves the way for funds to be transferred in a USD 250 million project designed to ...
Article > Press release India 
GCF supporting energy transformation in SIDS
Tonga, a Small Island Developing State in the Asia-Pacific ... to climate change. Despite having a huge potential for renewable energy, particularly from solar and wind, ... Telep Renewable Energy Senior Specialist +82 32 458 6326 Tonga Songdo GCF supporting energy transformation in SIDS ...
Article > Press release Tonga 
Climate finance drives down renewable price in Egypt by half
... of producing renewable energy in Egypt by using new ways to capture private finance flows. GCF has been working with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for the past few months to implement a USD 1 billion project aimed at creating a new ...
Article > Press release Egypt 
Dialogue opens new opportunities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
The Green Climate Fund will seek to expand its portfolio of climate change projects and ... with the opening of the GCF regional Structured Dialogue today in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The four-day forum, being opened by Tajikistan’s Deputy Prime Minister ...
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Sri Lankan President meets GCF Executive Director to boost climate action programme
... emerging during a recent meeting with GCF Executive Director Howard Bamsey designed to enhance his country’s interaction with the Fund. ... said President Sirisena. “Rice, as a staple food for the country, has always been produced in the country. ...
Article > Press release Sri Lanka 
Private sector key, say GCF Latin America Dialogue partners
The importance of the private sector was a common theme among many of the participants at the ... the Dialogue on Monday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón - a former economist and winner of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize - ...
Article > Press release Colombia 
Colombian President calls for enhanced public-private climate action
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón called for urgent public-private sector cooperation in tackling climate change at the Green ...
Article > Press release Colombia 
Winter Olympics begin with key message on planetary cooperation
As three consecutive Olympic Games move to East Asia, the headquarters of the Green Climate Fund, ... the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, is accompanied by two key fora harnessing the global spirit of the Games to address ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with an initial pledge of over USD 10 billion. ...
Article > Press release Republic of Korea (the) 
GCF charts progress and ambition at COP23 side event
... and improving its approval processes, Executive Director Howard Bamsey told participants at the global climate ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). “This will require changing many of our processes, ... requirement of ensuring the projects it supports match best-practice fiduciary standards and conform to ...
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Germany, Incheon City raise awareness on climate conflict and cooperation at GCF Headquarters
... and global change issues. Songdo is the 42nd venue to display the exhibition, which was originally launched in ... the subjects of water, climate, land, forests and minerals. Visitors learn how environmental degradation and resource ... of the opening of the exhibition in Songdo, which coincided with the opening of the 23rd UN Climate Summit in ...
Article > Press release Germany Republic of Korea (the) 
GCF and ADB sign agreement to help Fiji address its water challenge
... responses with the signing of a key funding agreement to improve Fiji’s water management. The signing of the ... (FAA) on Monday in Nadi, Fiji prepares the legal groundwork for GCF to begin transferring its USD 31 million ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to deliver equal amounts of funding to mitigation and ...
Article > Press release Fiji 
GCF Board Strengthens Fund’s Operations
... Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting of 2017 concluded today by adopting a series of decisions that will strengthen ... the Fund and help generate high quality funding proposals for climate finance investments in low-emission and ... of the GCF Board meetings are available on GCF’s website . The 18th meeting of the GCF Board will be held from ...
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GCF begins first REDD+ transfer
... Climate Fund is transferring its first REDD+ disbursement to help Ecuador reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect its forests. The current transfer of USD 7.9 million to the ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which supports countries' efforts to reduce emissions ...
Article > Press release Ecuador 
UNDP head welcomes flow of GCF funds to the Maldives
... Steiner, United Nations Development Programme Administrator, said the Maldives will benefit from the current transfer of GCF funds to an adaptation project run by the UNDP. While surrounded ... to 49 islands that currently rely on emergency deliveries for three months of each year. GCF’s transfer of USD 3 ...
Article > Press release Maldives 
GCF focuses on getting funds flowing
... USD 1 million tranche of an approved USD 6.2 million grant to help Peru’s indigenous communities manage wetlands to avoid deforestation and the release of peatland emissions. This ...
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CAF looks past Peru disaster to bank on climate future in Latin America
... challenges facing Peru and its neighbours, according to Antonio Garcia, a leading member of the Development Bank ... Garcia, a Spaniard who worked in his country’s Institute for Foreign Trade before joining CAF as a climate finance ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ). CAF has been a GCF instigator of change in Latin ...
Article > Story Peru 
GCF Readiness Results - Antigua and Barbuda
... nation of Antigua and Barbuda is one of the first countries to complete their roadmap for engagement with the GCF. Its Country Programme sets ... over USD 245 million in projects for potential GCF funding to help meet its low-emission and climate-resilient ...
Article > Press release Antigua and Barbuda 