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GCF/B.12/18 - Trustee arrangements, including the Review of the Interim Trustee and the initiation of a process to select the Trustee of the Green Climate Fund
This document presents an update on the steps towards selecting a Permanent Trustee and proposes a draft decision for consideration by the Board on the terms of reference of ... for the review of the Interim Trustee, following paragraph 26 of the Governing Instrument for the Green Climate Fund ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.27/10 - Guidelines to facilitate Board consideration of IRM reports on reconsideration requests, grievances or complaints
By Decision B.22/22 of 26 February 2019 the Board requested “the Head of the IRM, in consultation with the Ethics and Audit Committee, to consider options to facilitate the Board’s ... its findings and recommendations relating to requests for reconsideration of funding decisions and grievances or ...
Board document > Action item
Algeria outlines climate action ahead of COP 21
During a one-day visit to the Algerian capital, the Executive Director of the Green ... the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC. Upon invitation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ... on 25 October provided an opportunity to highlight the ways in which the Green Climate Fund can support the country ...
Article > Press release Algeria 
Green Climate Fund: USD 736 million for new projects and readiness strategy to accelerate climate action
... the three-day meeting, the Board approved 15 proposals totaling USD 736.4 million to fund new climate projects in ... vulnerable to the climate crisis. This decision paves the way for important partnerships with new Accredited Entities ... re-accreditation." Of the 15 new funding proposals, 12 target the most vulnerable – Least Developed Countries ...
Article > Press release 
Asian private sector ambition key to climate solution, Dialogue finds
Private sector ambitions driving the Asian economic powerhouse can be ... to fund low-carbon energy solutions. GCF brought together representatives from key organisations - including 23 ... to tell GCF how the Fund should deploy its resources to best fit national needs. During the Dialogue, 19 Asian ...
Article > Press release Indonesia 
Green Climate Fund says help is coming for Tonga
Green Climate Fund says help is coming for Tonga ...
Article > Article about GCF 
European Investment Bank
... entity whose main objective in developing countries is to provide finance and expertise for sound and sustainable ... the transition to a sustainable low-carbon future. EIB targets 25 per cent of its portfolio as climate action projects ... to support project development and implementation, as a way of strengthening country ownership. EIB seeks to support ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), International Luxembourg
Information requests and responses
... may be appealed before the Information Appeals Panel (IAP). To improve clarity and efficiency, the GCF has adjusted how ... opportunities 11 Jul 25 Aug Granted IDP500 Uganda's budget allocation under GCF multi-countries projects 10 Jul 12 ... Funded Activity Agreement for FP111, FP154, FP163, and IFC projects 26 Nov 11 Apr 2022 Partially granted IDP300 ...
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Initial Resource Mobilisation
... Amount confirmed 9300000000 At its 21st meeting in October 2018, the GCF Board launched the process for the Fund's first replenishment (GCF-1). Initial Resource ...
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An End of Year Message from GCF
... As we reach the end of this difficult year, I would like to send my heartfelt thanks to all our partners for your ... separated from family and friends and have adapted to new ways of working in this unique era. Despite the ... pledges are already confirmed. 2021 will see the delayed COP26 meeting, which will be a crucial marker for climate ...
Article > Statement 
GCF partners with Save the Children on major Vanuatu climate resilience project
... the Children Australia. The project will help communities to adapt to the impacts of climate change and to protect ... protect their livelihoods with a range of innovative and targeted adaptation measures. It will make a real difference in ... children in Vanuatu, climate change isn’t some far away prospect, it’s placing them in harm’s way on a daily ...
Article > News update Vanuatu 
GCF launches climate finance report during Seoul P4G summit
... can be aligned with sustainable development in order to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and deliver a ... on Climate Change (IPCC) and GCF experts, sets out a pathway for financial decision-makers to align finance with the ... development banks to set ambitious climate finance targets, he said “we are also working to increase private ...
Article > Press release 
On the frontlines of climate change: Financing the largest community-based adaptation project in Vanuatu
‘We women depend on fishing along the coastline to provide fish for our families but most of our catch now ... communities, you talk about remote, smaller islands that get their main source of water from the rain. And [the ... working with Save the Children Australia, with a USD 26.2 million grant from the Green Climate Fund (GCF), will ...
Article > Story Vanuatu 
Catalysing transformative climate resilient infrastructure through private investment
... of Fiji, Jamaica and Rwanda co-hosted a virtual briefing to over 100 representatives of governments and other ... Action reiterated the UN Secretary General’s call for COP26 to deliver breakthroughs on adaptation and resilience - ... countries and countries to integrate climate risk across budgetary and decision-making landscape. “These commitments ...
Article > Press release 
FP090 - Tonga Renewable Energy Project under the Pacific Islands Renewable Energy Investment Program
Shifting electricity production in Tonga to a low-carbon, climate resilient path. Tonga is the ... generation. The Government of Tonga has formulated targets to transform its energy sector by achieving a 50 ... infrastructure. This project aims to help Tonga move away from fossil fuels and shift to renewables. The project ...
Project > Public sector Tonga 
GCF/B.20/05 - Annual update on complementarity and coherence
... seventeenth meeting, the Board requested the Secretariat to present a report on the progress made and outputs from ... The Board requested that this report be presented for its consideration in 2018, and that the Secretariat ... The document provides input for a Board discussion on fund-to-fund arrangements with other climate funds, considering ...
Board document > Action item
Summary of outcomes of the 22nd meeting of the GCF Board
The 22nd meeting of the GCF Board (B.22) took place from 26-28 February 2019 in Songdo, Republic of Korea. Mr. ... Co-Chairs of the Board for 2019. Representatives from the UNFCCC Secretariat, the World Bank (acting as Interim Trustee ...
Document > Summary of outcomes of the meeting of the GCF Board
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Afghanistan through FAO
Afghanistan is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. A high proportion of the population rely on climate-sensitive sectors, particularly agriculture and animal husbandry. ... the productivity of these sectors. Climate change therefore poses a direct threat to marginalized, vulnerable ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Afghanistan
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Barbados through Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs
... assist the NDA in building the necessary capacity needed to handle large cross sectoral projects involving multiple stakeholders and interest ... assist in operationalizing the INDC and obtaining financing for national projects or programmes. The readiness support ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Barbados
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Chile through the Chilean Development Cooperation Agency
The objective of this grant is to enhance country ownership and climate finance access ... of the Green Climate Fund in Chile. In particular, it aims to develop the capacity of the National Designated Authority ... 1). Furthermore, it aims to develop a strategic framework for national engagement with the Fund, as well as a country ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chile
FP036 - Pacific Islands Renewable Energy Investment Program
... most isolated economies. They are the Cook Islands, Tonga, Republic of Marshall Islands, Federated States of ... diesel to often highly dispersed populations. All SIDS targeted in this programme recognize the benefits of shifting ... This will help spur private sector investment to pave the way towards Cook Islands’ national target of 100 percent ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries 
A ‘vaccine’ for tropical forests?
... earlier this year that he would be "donating $100 million towards a prize for best carbon capture technology”. Out of 600 thousand likes ... When we are nervous, we get heated and our bodies find the way to cool down: We sweat. Now imagine the tropical forests ...
Article > Insights 
GCF Regional Dialogue with the Pacific & Asian SIDS
The Regional Dialogue aims to bring together National Designated Authorities (NDAs), Accredited ... to facilitate peer-to-peer learning, share experiences and best practices, and identify and develop climate change ...
Event > Structured dialogue Cook Islands 
Australia and the GCF Secretariat co-host the Pacific Regional Workshop in Fiji
... Government of Australia and the GCF Secretariat are working together to co-host the second Green Climate Fund (GCF) ... The workshop will help Pacific island countries in two ways: to build their internal capacity to access GCF ...
Article > Press release Australia Fiji 
Funds flow in GCF’s first direct access project with Pacific Islands
... Programme (SPREP) improving Pacific islands’ ability to deal with climate-induced disasters. The signing of the ... the Fund’s contribution of nearly US 23 million to a USD 26.6 million adaptation project in Vanuatu , which topped ... as the most vulnerable nation. FAAs set the legal framework for GCF Accredited Entities to carry out GCF-approved ...
Article > Press release Vanuatu 
GCF/B.10/12 - Template for the Bilateral Agreement on Privileges and Immunities
At its meeting in Songdo from 24 to 26 March 2015, the Board considered a proposed “Template for the Bilateral Agreement on Privileges and Immunities” ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.34/Inf.16 - Diversification of financial instruments for addressing climate risk
At the twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ... explore diversifying its selection of financial instruments for addressing climate risk, including parametric insurance for climatic events” (decision 6/CP.26, para. 11). Through its decision B.32/08, the Board ...
Board document > Information
Invitation for the Thirty-first Round of Application for Accreditation as an Observer Organization to the Green Climate Fund
In line with the Governing Instrument for the Green Climate Fund (the GCF) and the Rules of ... with the Board, invite accredited observer organizations to the thirty-seventh meeting of the Board of the GCF, which is planned to take place from 23 October to 26 October 2023. Following the GCF’s Governing Instrument ...
Document > Notification
GCF/B.39/Inf.02 - Report on the execution of the 2024 administrative budget of GCF
... on the execution of the GCF 2024 administrative budget from 1 January to 30 April 2024 and other additional budgets approved by ... million against the annual budget of USD 125.4 million (26 per cent of the approved budget); USD 0. 8 million ...
Board document > Information