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Scaling up CoP event outlines COP26 outcomes and ways forward
To reflect upon COP26 outcomes and scale up climate ... discussions that reviewed COP26 proceedings and suggested ways forward to scale up climate finance and investments for delivering the targets of the Paris Agreement. ‘Looking at COP26, we can say ...
Article > News update 
GCF publishes the tentative funding proposal schedule for B.26
... tentative timeline for its twenty-sixth Board meeting (B.26) following the decision by the Board at the twenty-third meeting to hold B.26 from 23 to 25 June 2020 in Songdo, Incheon, ... peoples, and (iii) to the Board and active observers by way of a notification via the Secretariat. The deadline for ...
Article > Press release 
Green Climate Fund: USD 1.26 billion for climate action in developing countries
... the 38th Board meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) took place between 5-7 March, the first Board meeting of the ... member, Daniel Machado da Fonseca, from Brazil, who passed away on 3 March. The GCF Board endorsed eleven climate ... Sierra Leone, Cambodia and Pakistan. Seven projects target Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Least Developed ...
Article > Press release 
GCF launches innovation Working Paper at COP26
Innovation is essential to develop and scale up solutions so that we can limit ... can put us on a net-zero carbon, climate resilient pathway. Reaching this pathway will require significant ... Climate Fund’s approach can deliver new climate solutions for developing countries examines the main barriers to ... (GGGI). GCF launches innovation Working Paper at COP26 ...
Article > Press release 
GCF/B.23/24 - Report of the twenty-third meeting of the Board, 6 – 8 July 2019
The report for the twenty-third meeting of the GCF Board (B.23) ... the conduct of the major points of the meeting. GCF/B.23/24 26 Report of the twenty-third meeting of the Board, 6 – 8 ...
Board document > Meeting report
Latest IPCC report is a wake-up call for immediate climate action
... (IPCC) Report underlies the urgency of taking global action to halt climate change and deal with its unstoppable ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2010, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is mandated to ... and land use scenarios (‘Shared Socio-economic Pathways’, or SSPs) which range from very high emissions to ...
Article > Statement 
Conference of the Parties (COP26)
Glasgow Conference of the Parties (COP26) ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
GCF spearheads innovation drive for climate-resilient infrastructure at COP26
GCF is pioneering an innovative new approach to developing climate-resilient infrastructure, which is set ... and sea level rise. A pilot project launched by GCF together with the Government of Jamaica is testing the ... helps to provide a systematic and financially sound way forward for vulnerable countries to protect against ...
Article > Press release Ghana Jamaica 
GCF can plug the adaptation finance gap say leaders at COP26 side lines dialogue
Small island nations with only a little over a decade to prepare for accelerating global heating need large ... State’s (SIDS’) seashores are “daily eating away at our capacity to survive.” “it is critical that we mobilise all resources together,” stated the Prime Minister, adding that many ...
Article > Press release 
Twenty-sixth meeting of the GCF Board (B.26)
#GCFB26 Opening of the meeting Adoption of the agenda and ... Consideration of funding proposals Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme – Annual Report 2019 and Work Programme and Budget 2020-2021 Review of the Multilateral Organisation ...
Event > Board meeting 
Long-term vision on complementary, coherence and collaboration between GCF and GEF
... Collaborating on climate finance is vital if we want to fulfil COP26 commitments and re- ignite momentum towards ... climate action. However, there is a lot left to be done to get back on track to reach the Paris Agreement goals. ... But we also need to lay the solid groundwork to chart our way towards this massive transition to low emission, ...
Article > Speech
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 ... GCF is preparing further disbursements in coming months to get funds flowing to the 43 projects it has already ... These legal agreements, currently numbering 18, open the way for GCF’s transfer of funds. The 16 FAAs signed during ...
Article > Press release 
GCF-EIF agreement opens way for start of Namibian nature-based climate solution
The Green Climate Fund has come a step closer to helping Namibia’s Environmental Investment Fund (EIF) ... signed a Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) which opens the way for the implementation of a project in Namibia which ... way of building climate resilience across eight targeted landscapes in Namibia. Scientific studies show that ...
Article > Press release Namibia 
GCF/B.37/26 - Report of the thirty-seventh meeting of the Board, 23 – 26 October 2023
GCF/B.37/26 Report of the thirty-seventh meeting of the Board, 23 – 26 October 2023 ...
Board document > Meeting report
Green Climate Fund begins 26th Board meeting tomorrow
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board convenes tomorrow a virtual, four-day meeting to consider expanding ... the current 103 countries receiving climate finance. The 26th GCF Board meeting will consider 15 initiatives to ... translates to a total of USD 2.2 billon when accounting for co-financing with GCF funding partners. If approved, ...
Article > Press release 
GCF/B.19/44 - Report of the nineteenth meeting of the Board, 26 February – 1 March 2018
GCF/B.19/44 Report of the nineteenth meeting of the Board, 26 February – 1 March 2018 ...
Board document > Meeting report
GCF/B.19/43 - Decisions of the Board – nineteenth meeting of the Board, 26 February – 1 March 2018
... Decisions of the Board – nineteenth meeting of the Board, 26 February – 1 March 2018 ...
Board document > Compendium of decisions
GCF/B.09/23 - Decisions of the Board – Ninth Meeting of the Board, 24 - 26 March 2015
... Decisions of the Board – Ninth Meeting of the Board, 24 - 26 March 2015 ...
Board document > Compendium of decisions
GCF/B.09/24 - Report of the Ninth Meeting of the Board, 24–26 March 2015
GCF/B.09/24 Report of the Ninth Meeting of the Board, 24–26 March 2015 ...
Board document > Meeting report
GCF/B.37/25 - Decisions of the Board – thirty-seventh meeting of the Board, 23 – 26 October 2023
... the Board – thirty-seventh meeting of the Board, 23 – 26 October 2023 ...
Board document > Compendium of decisions
GCF/B.04/17 - Decisions of the Board - Fourth Meeting of the Board, 26-28 June 2013
... Decisions of the Board - Fourth Meeting of the Board, 26-28 June 2013 ...
Board document > Compendium of decisions
GCF/B.04/18 - Report of the Fourth Meeting of the Board, 26-28 June 2013
GCF/B.04/18 Report of the Fourth Meeting of the Board, 26-28 June 2013 ...
Board document > Meeting report
Great Green Wall gets USD 82.8 million boost from GCF and IFAD
A project agreement has been signed in the margins of the COP26 meeting in Glasgow to green-light a USD 82.8 million GCF investment in support ... weather information services.” FP162 Great Green Wall gets USD 82.8 million boost from GCF and IFAD ...
Article > Press release 
Catalysing climate investments in developing countries in the context of COVID-19
Distinguished guests, We are not on track to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goals. UNEP’s latest ... that NDCs to reduce emissions as they stood just before COP26 opened are not enough to achieve the Paris Agreement ... today. GCF’s approach is based on four complementary pathways. We are helping nurture a supportive regulatory ...
Article > Speech
Zambia shows leadership potential in milestone visit to GCF HQ
Zambia highlighted the major steps it is taking to deal with climate change as part of the largest official delegation to visit GCF’s headquarters in Korea on 9 February. Welcoming ... with GCF. Senior Zambian officials detailed a number of ways their country is addressing climate change, including: ...
Article > Press release Zambia 
Global fund for coral reefs- reef-based climate resilience finance
Oceans and the Blue Economy have an enormous role to play in preserving and enhancing sustainable economic ... investments and financial instruments. Only in this way can we resolve the climate finance paradox in order to ... mobilising finance at scale in a programme specifically targeting coral reef protection. GCF’s first at-scale private ...
Article > Speech
GCF/B.08/05 - Relevant International Private Sector Best-Practice Fiduciary Principles and Standards and Environmental and Social Safeguards
... the identification of relevant international private sector bestpractice fiduciary principles and standards and ESS, ... the Fund’s initial fiduciary standards and interim ESS for consideration by the Board. GCF/B.08/05 Relevant ...
Board document > Action item
Defining and measuring systemic resilience
... guests, ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for the opportunity to speak at this important event. Over the past week, we ... design to crowd-in public and private investments. GCF, together with the Government of Jamaica and the CCRI, is ... CRRI for being steadfast partners in delivering innovative ways to de-risk investments and mobilise finance at scale, ...
Article > Speech
GCF/B.41/Inf.12/Add.01 - Summary of advice of the fifth meeting of the Indigenous Peoples Advisory Group, 26–29 August 2024, Songdo, Incheon, Republic of Korea
The following document contains the outcomes of the fifth formal meeting of the GCF Indigenous Peoples Advisory Group (IPAG-4) held 26–29 August 2024, in Songdo, Incheon, Republic of Korea. ... the fifth meeting of the Indigenous Peoples Advisory Group, 26–29 August 2024, Songdo, Incheon, Republic of Korea ...
Board document > Information
GCF forum at COP26 finds big investment rise needed to decarbonise energy paths
... International Energy Agency (IEA) Deputy Executive Director Mary Warlick issued this stark call for an urgent ... the crucial place of climate finance in ongoing COP26 negotiations, representatives from developing countries ... national decarbonisation in a USD 1.9 billion initiative, together with the Central American Bank for Economic ...
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