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International Tropical Timber Organization
The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) is an international access entity established as an intergovernmental organization responsible for implementing the International Tropical Timber ... 76 countries, including the European Union (EU-27), that together account for approximately 80 per cent of the ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), International Japan
Countries
... a National Designated Authority or Focal Point, paving the way towards unlocking GCF resources for climate solutions. Countries ...
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Green Climate Fund energy strategy accelerates low-carbon transition
... out how its energy strategy will support new COP29 pledges to accelerate the low-carbon transition, marking Energy Day ... sharing through communities of practice, promoting best practices, and supporting the development of climate ... solutions are designed to offer the most cost-effective pathways to clean energy transition, promoting the Just ...
Article > Press release 
GCF/B.23/12/Add.04 - Review of the initial modalities for the Private Sector Facility – Addendum IV: Review of the micro, small and medium‐sized enterprise pilot programme
... status, reflecting on lessons learned and proposing a way forward. GCF/B.23/12/Add.04 18 Review of the initial modalities for the Private Sector Facility – Addendum IV: Review of the micro, small and ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.11/18 - Policies addressing fraud, corruption and other prohibited practices, and policies addressing anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (status update)
... prohibited practices, along with a summary of international best practices and a recommendation for how to proceed with next steps. GCF/B.11/18 Policies addressing ...
Board document > Action item
Climate finance for sustaining peace and security
... mass displacement. A harrowing future awaits according to the latest IPCC report if we ignore the ultimate threat ... foster inclusive, peaceful, and sustainable development pathways. The mandate of the Green Climate Fund is to help ... on how climate finance investments in fragile states can best support inclusive, peaceful and sustainable ...
Article > Speech
Structured Dialogue with the Pacific 2018
... (FSM) and supported by the Government of Australia, brought together key stakeholders to strengthen the engagement of ... platform for countries and development partners to share best practices and lessons in: strengthening and ...
Event > Structured dialogue Micronesia (Federated States of) 
GCF Regional Programming Dialogue with Asia and the Pacific: enhancing regional access to climate finance
... Dialogue with Asia and the Pacific. GCF Executive Director, Mafalda Duarte (centre), with representatives of ... Pacific kicked off from 7-11 August. The Dialogue brought together participants from 23 regional governments ... Accredited Entities (IAE) along with GCF staff to discuss ways to accelerate access to climate finance in a region hit ...
Article > News update 
Ambition and coordination key to climate finance reform
... would improve the quantity, type, and delivery of finance to scale up the positive impacts on communities on the ... and see, but this does not mean that actors cannot work together and work better together,” Mr Magron said. “We ... us to be disciplined and focused and to find pragmatic ways to pool our resources so that they can be more ...
Article > News update 
Grenada PM calls for decisive climate action at GCF Structured Dialogue with the Caribbean
... Mitchell of Grenada called on participants from the region to work together to address the risks of climate change and called for ... and shift development on a low-carbon and sustainable pathway is required. GCF is fully committed to assisting the ...
Article > Press release 
GCF Readiness Programme marks milestone, hitting USD 10m in funds disbursed to 59 countries
More than USD 10 million to date has been disbursed through the Green Climate ... portfolio currently consists of 119 approved proposals for capacity building activities in some 88 developing ... in Vanuatu , which was used to inform the design of a USD 26.6 million CIS project that the GCF Board approved for ...
Article > Press release CABEI 
Strategic Regional Readiness to Enable Resilience of Mesoamerica’s 5 Great Forests and Communities
This proposal seeks funding to support the Governments of Central America to leverage ... change solutions (NBS) within Mesoamerica’s Five Great Forests, and other key forest areas in the region. Central ... as well as increased NDC ambitions for announcement in COP26 in Glasgow and beyond. The direct beneficiaries of the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
Making blended finance work for adaptation
... that adaptation costs in developing countries are five to ten times greater than current public adaptation finance flows. Working together, the public and private sectors have a critical role ... 56 million Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund, including USD 26 million in GCF financing. ARAF will benefit 10 million ...
Article > Speech
Strengthening the NDA’s climate change governance structure to increase the level of ambition of the climate change agenda and enhance access to climate finance
Although it maintains a minor greenhouse emission profile, Togo is considered among the most vulnerable to climatic ... national direct access entity. Furthermore, it is difficult for the country to (i) ensure high quality and consistent ... amounts of annual climate finance flow estimated at USD 26 million on average between 2013-2018. The situation has ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Togo CSE
Delivering at speed: 12 new projects ready for implementation
Project agreements were signed for 12 newly approved projects on the margins of the Green ... Accredited Entity partners at a signing ceremony on 30 October, marking the most project agreements signed at a ... for 22 projects, bringing the year’s total to USD 3.26 billion. GCF’s portfolio currently comprises 336 ...
Article > News update 
Republic of Congo signs P&I agreement with GCF
... of Congo signed a Privileges and Immunities agreement today during a visit to GCF by a Congolese delegation led by the Minister ... granting of Privileges and Immunities is highly important for the effective operationalisation of GCF's investments ...
Article > News update Congo 
Brussels Capital Region pledges €500,000 to GCF
... of the Brussels Capital Region, pledged EUR 500,000 to the Green Climate Fund today. "Climate financing is a fundamental element for reaching an ambitious agreement,” stated Ms. Fremault. ... which is new and additional funding,” she said when visiting the GCF stand on the occasion of the 21st ...
Article > Press release 
GCF deepens country engagement with Tonga
A series of strategic engagements with Tonga was held recent by GCF, including high-level ... workshops, meetings with Accredited Entities and field visits to potential projects. These engagements were meant to help ...
Article > News update 
Approved projects
... shifts in both mitigation and adaptation. The Fund aims for a 50:50 balance between mitigation and adaptation investments over time. It also aims for a floor of 50 percent of the adaptation allocation for ... States. For more detailed data about our projects please visit the GCF Open Data Library . Approved projects ...
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GCF publishes tentative timelines for B.31 and B.32
At its thirtieth meeting, the GCF Board decided to hold its thirty-first meeting of the Board (B.31) from 7 ... peoples, and (iii) to the Board and active observers by way of a notification via the Secretariat. The deadline for ... with Accredited Entities for updates, with a target date for the final version to be released in mid-January ...
Article > News update 
GCF publishes revised timeline for B.32 and tentative timeline for B.33
At its thirty-first meeting, the GCF Board decided to hold its thirty-second meeting (B.32) from 16 to 19 May ... peoples, and (iii) to the Board and active observers by way of a notification via the Secretariat. The deadline for ... period 2020-2023 (GCF-1) and set new portfolio targets under the Fund’s investment framework . During this ...
Article > News update 
GCF publishes timelines for B.36
At its thirty-fifth meeting, the GCF Board confirmed to hold its thirty-sixth meeting (B.36) from 10 to 13 July ... authority, GCF investment criteria, GCF-1 portfolio targets and the Secretariat’s annual work programme. In light ... peoples, and (iii) to the Board and active observers by way of a notification via the Secretariat. The deadline for ...
Article > News update 
GCF publishes timelines for B.37
At its thirty-sixth meeting, the GCF Board confirmed to hold its thirty-seventh meeting (B.37) from 23 to 25 ... authority, GCF investment criteria, GCF-1 portfolio targets and the Secretariat’s annual work programme. In light ... peoples, and (iii) to the Board and active observers by way of a notification via the Secretariat. The deadline for ...
Article > News update 
GCF/B.06/07 - Country Ownership
At its October 2013 meeting, the Board considered a number of ... decided to request the Secretariat to revise this document for consideration at its February 2014 meeting. Taking into ... a no‐objection procedure for approval by the Board, best practices for the establishment and composition of ...
Board document > Action item
COP27 summit host Egypt is first country to adopt Climate Investment Plan in partnership with Green Climate Fund
... have announced that Egypt will be the first country to adopt a Climate Investment Plan – a move which could ... planning approach. The shift allows countries to move away from implementing their national climate plans - such as ... seeing how we can engage more and more the private sector together with governments, to finance climate change projects ...
Article > Press release Egypt 
Building climate resilient economies: water solutions in Grenada’s agriculture and tourism sectors
... patterns droughts, and the intrusion of saltwater into groundwater sources due to sea level rise, exacerbating ... the True Blue Bay resort installed a 13,400-gallon tank. Together, these installations are generating estimated annual ... opportunity given by the challenge fund for tourism as a way to inspire sustainable hotel operations nationwide. ...
Article > Story Grenada FP059 
Climate costs will rise sharply if we miss 1.5 degree target, GCF conference hears
... is a moral obligation, while inadequate action leading to global temperatures over 1.5 degrees Celsius will come ... on Monday added a sense of urgency to discussions on how best to open up new low-emissions and climate resilient pathways of development. Bill Hare, Chief Executive Officer of ...
Article > Press release 
GCF project seed funding to help grow agricultural resilience in Morocco
... uncertain future, placing livelihoods under threat. Working to change course is Morocco’s Agency for Agricultural ... and plan the most appropriate technologies to use, and best way to design and implement the project. The Fund’s PPF ...
Article > Story Morocco ADA_Morocco 
Saving the cryosphere requires innovative financing
... Assembly set the stage for a transformative decade—2025 to 2034—as the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences . ... policymakers, financers and communities worldwide to work together and explore, understand, and address risks posed by a ... within green finance portfolios. Recommendations and way forward Bridging the financing gap requires a ...
Article > Insights 
Efforts to save the Amazon offer triple win: Improving human, environmental, and economic health and wellbeing
... people front and centre. This is especially true for the custodians of natural ecosystems, which are vital in winning ... has not altered his aspirations, but he has changed the way he treats the land. The initiative provides financial ... to sustainable production—demonstrating that one of the best ways to protect ecosystems, and thereby reign in global ...
Article > Story Ecuador UNDP FP019 