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GCF hosts knowledge management spring meeting for IFIs
... Financial Institutions’ (IFIs) Community of Practice for Knowledge Management converged for their 2021 Spring ... 21-22 April. Representatives from 14 organizations delved into discussions on knowledge management metrics. Metrics are ... findability, reduction in time for design of new projects, best practice collection and contribution, and critical ...
Article > News update 
Zoom video conferencing
... through the GCF Apps Portal (Okta) or GCF’s Zoom page for work-related activities. Feature summary High quality ... available on Windows and Mac and mobile devices One touch to start or join meetings Unlimited cloud storage for ...
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IIU hosts Conference of International Investigators
... will host the 19th Conference of International Investigators (CII) from 8 to 12 October 2018 at Songdo Convensia, ... these investigative offices, facilitate the exchange of information, provide a platform for hands-on training, and socialise latest developments in the field. The 19th CII will be ...
Article > Press release 
17th GCF Board meeting to refine climate finance flow
The 17th meeting of the Green Climate Fund Board opens today, with a major goal to strengthen the Fund’s focus on targeting strong climate finance initiatives. The GCF Board's ... to strengthen the policies underpinning GCF’s support for projects that reduce emissions and boost the resilience ...
Article > Press release 
Ambassador Black-Layne signs Antigua and Barbuda’s grant agreement with GCF
... of Antigua and Barbuda, Ambassador Diann Black-Layne, today signed its readiness grant agreement with the Green ... Héla Cheikhrouhou took place on the sidelines of the latest climate change negotiation meeting in Bonn, Germany ... will put in place the preliminary infrastructure needed for GCF to extend its support to the two-island country’s ...
Article > Press release Antigua and Barbuda 
Rwanda secures GCF grant to accelerate access to climate finance
... focused on the Green Climate Fund’s Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme. Unique to the Fund, the programme ... strengthen their systems and prepare projects or programmes for funding by GCF. The Fund has earmarked an initial USD 15 ... to support these countries in such efforts. Rwanda is the latest developing country to have finalized a grant ...
Article > Press release Rwanda 
Structured Dialogue with Least Developed Countries
... and the Least Developed Countries' constituency under the UNFCCC, organised the GCF Structured Dialogue with Least ... Developed Countries (LDCs) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 19 to 22 November 2018. The forty-seven countries on the list ... and impactful programmes or projects. The event brought together GCF partners in the LDCs, including National ...
Event > Structured dialogue Ethiopia 
Country programme guidance
Green Climate Fund (GCF) Country Programmes are the cornerstone of each country’s pipeline development with GCF. It ... stage of the updated GCF project and programme cycle, and forms the basis for prioritising the further development of ... with long-term planning aligned with the goals of the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement to stabilise average global ...
Document > Publication, Guides
GCF Write Shop on Blue Co Caribbean
Blue Co is a proposed blended finance co-investment platform aimed at helping SIDS meet the Paris Agreement and SDG14 targets. In August 2022, Caribbean Heads of Government convened in the Bahamas requested GCF to help the region build a blue economy strategy. Building ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Bahamas 
GCF unveils new organisational structure to accelerate climate action
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) today unveiled the latest phase of its ambitious reform agenda to enhance efficiency and impact in supporting ...
Article > News update 
Cook Islands become first Pacific state to receive GCF readiness funding
... received financial resources from the Green Climate Fund to strengthen their capacity to access finance through GCF. ... Islands. “This is a fund that we have strongly advocated for. As a nation that is extremely vulnerable to the impacts ... such countries, including three LDCs in Africa. “This latest disbursement demonstrates how GCF is rolling out its ...
Article > Press release Cook Islands 
Vatican and R20 Austrian World Summit: Finance is key to tackling climate crisis
If the world is to win the race against climate change, finance must be used ... (GCF)." "GCF's mandate is to increase access to finance for developing countries to scale up their climate ... upon a common plan that accords with climate science, the latest in clean energy engineering, and above all the ethics ...
Article > Press release Austria 
GCF stresses need to highlight climate connection at Asia-Pacific Forestry Week
Green Climate Fund Deputy Executive Director Javier Manzanares called for enhanced efforts to link forest protection and climate ... warming to within 1.5 degrees Celsius, as indicated in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ...
Article > Press release 
The Green Climate Fund receives 2020 FutureEdge 50 Award from International Data Group, Inc. (IDG)
... 50 Award from IDG’s CIO. This prestigious honour is bestowed upon worldwide organisations pushing the edge with new ... technologies to advance their business results and impact for the future. GCF received the award in recognition of its ...
Article > Press release 
GCF launches newly revised Readiness Guidebook and templates
... Proposal templates as part of the Fund’s ongoing efforts to streamline and enhance the Readiness Programme. Reflecting the latest developments, operational improvements and lessons ...
Article > News update 
Local Governments and Climate Change-III (LGCC3)
... in the most vulnerable districts lack the adaptive capacity to overcome these challenges, while local governments lack ... adaptation investments integrated into the planning and budgetary cycles of local and district government plans. ... the Nationally Determined Contribution 2020 (NDC) to the UNFCCC and SDGs numbers 1, 11 and 13. Proposed interventions ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Cambodia NCDD
FP007 - Supporting vulnerable communities in Maldives to manage climate change-induced water shortages
The project aimed to provide safe freshwater access to 105,000 people across 111 islands1 in the Maldives, ... water supply systems and improve groundwater quality for long-term resilience. In terms of achievement , the ...
Project > Public sector Maldives UNDP 
FP086 - Green Cities Facility
Enabling the transition of cities to low-carbon, climate-resilient urban development. Urban areas account for approximately 70 percent of the global energy ... Serbia North Macedonia Albania 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 111 169 216 263 338 551 552 553 570 571 877 937 988 Green Cities Facility ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries EBRD 
Traditional Savanna Fire Management Readiness Proposal to facilitate Emissions Reductions in the AFOLU sector in Belize
Challenges and Gaps that the Proposal is Designed to Resolve Belize, through national commitments and ... Change in Belize (2014), Belize identified AFOLU (including forest fires) as an important threat that would be ... the sharing of knowledge (Outcome 5.2). This approach targets stakeholders representing each of government, research ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Belize ISFMI Pty Ltd
GCF signs off on project to improve climate-resilient agriculture in Namibia
Green Climate Fund resources will now start flowing to help poor farmers in northern Namibia tackle climate ... Investment Fund (EIF) marks the last stage of approval before GCF resources are disbursed to begin climate finance ... the 15th GCF Board meeting held in Samoa. “We can now get started on helping many of the communities in three ...
Article > Press release Namibia EIF 
Bolstering the resilience of poor, climate-vulnerable communities
A new Green Climate Fund (GCF) project to increase the resilience of marginalised communities in ... threatens. “We were moving as quickly as possible to get the project up and running in time for the new flood season, which runs from June through ...
Article > Press release Bangladesh PKSF 
GCF Board meeting to be held next week
The thirty-fifth meeting of the GCF Board is set to get underway in Songdo, Incheon, Republic of Korea from ...
Article > News update 
Readiness implementation: Putting learning at the center
With the recently approved Revised Readiness Strategy for the period 2024-2027 and building on over 8 years of ... sharing amongst Readiness Partners and the GCF Secretariat to catalyze transformational Climate Action is even more ... GIZ shall co-convene a virtual learning meeting bringing together Delivery Partners, NDAs, DAES, experts and GCF staff ...
Event > Webinar 
Addressing the climate crisis: scaling up existing climate innovation and investment
... and Gentlemen, Good afternoon. At the onset, I would like to thank the organizers for the opportunity to address this ... as ambitious country commitments to net zero emission targets have put the Paris Agreement’s goals within reach. ... of new technological solutions. While there are pathways to scale up existing technologies and to develop new ...
Article > Speech
Sustainability guidance note: Designing and ensuring meaningful stakeholder engagement on GCF-financed projects
... of the Revised Environmental and Social Policy that applies to all activities financed by the GCF, and to both private ... and constructive processes to ensure that people are well informed, their ideas are advanced, and their concerns are ... impacts. This guidance note offers practical steps for getting started, and for developing tools and approaches ...
Document > Guides
Executive Director's opening remarks at the High-level Pledging Conference for GCF's second replenishment (GCF-2)
Excellencies, colleagues, and friends, Welcome to GCF’s second replenishment Pledging Conference. Let me begin by congratulating Germany for demonstrating remarkable leadership in climate finance. ... place is something I will certainly not forget and treasure. Vielen Dank! Please join me in giving them ...
Article > Speech 
Postcard from Katowice: Friday, December 14
This is the final GCF postcard from Katowice, but it may not be the final day of the COP. We are ... the daily postcard you will remember that this was targeted for completion by last Saturday, but it’s now part of the ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries IDB 
GCF wins innovation prize
... been recognised with a global innovation award. The concept for GCF’s Knowledge Management System has won one of the ... organizations, products and people developing new ideas to improve people’s lives. GCF’s knowledge management ... Knowledge Management System concept won the award for the way it combines elements of technology (IT systems), ...
Article > Press release 
Postcard from Katowice: Thursday, December 6
... the first week of the COP, negotiating texts are starting to be slimmed down, reducing in size and removing the ... an operating entity of the financial mechanism to the UNFCCC, GCF will certainly play a key role - whichever way the text is eventually agreed. Katowice Postcard from ...
Article > Press release 
GCF signs agreement with Micronesia Conservation Trust to bolster Pacific resilience
... take greater control of their destinies, the Executive Director of the Micronesia Conservation Trust (MCT), William ... MCT is one of GCF’s direct access Accredited Entities forging low-emission and climate resilient paths in Small Island Developing States. AMAs open the way for GCF to consider climate change projects which ...
Article > Press release Micronesia (Federated States of) MCT 