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GCF’s first private sector conference boosts business role in climate finance
The Green Climate Fund will strive to drive momentum from its first conference focusing on the ... networks to unleash the trillions of dollars needed for climate finance. GCF’s Private Investment for Climate ... gathered in Incheon, the Republic of Korea, to explore ways of diverting private investment flows into funding ...
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GCF and Korean Government join forces to promote global Green New Deal
The head of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) on Thursday called for a global Green New Deal in which redirected financial ... and COVID-19 recovery measures must be mutually supportive to be effective,” said GCF Executive Director ... exploring how COVID-19 recovery efforts can be directed away from investments that are harming the ...
Article > Press release 
The global water crisis: A call to action for climate and water initiatives
... visible every day. Urgent and courageous steps are needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ... and a key player in adaptation and mitigation efforts. At World Water Week 2023 , global leaders and experts ... vision: Merging climate finance and water security One way to accelerate the implementation of the UN 2023 Water ...
Article > Insights 
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 ... between GCF and GEF shows how we are working together to synergise each other’s financing to maximise ...
Article > Press release Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) 
Climate finance drives down renewable price in Egypt by half
... cost of producing renewable energy in Egypt by using new ways to capture private finance flows. GCF has been working with ... supplies of solar and wind power to reach its 2020 target of using renewables to provide 20 percent of its power ...
Article > Press release Egypt EBRD 
GCF scopes forest funding path after workshop
GCF is currently exploring ways to help countries keep their forests intact while also ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Mr Velasco pointed to the key role REDD+ is now ...
Article > Press release Indonesia 
Global leaders highlight need to invest for COVID-climate recovery
Developing countries need green investment to recover from the COVID recession and meet the climate ... “But it must also put us on track to meet our climate targets.” “The important work of the Green Climate Fund is ... annual private sector-focused conference to explore new ways to collaborate with businesses to fund climate action ...
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Reduce Sao Tome and Principe’s vulnerability to climate change impacts by strengthening the Country’s capacity to implement an integrated approach to adaptation planning
Sao Tome and Principe (STP) is one of the most vulnerable ... STP, supported by key development partners, has come a long way to establish an institutional, legal and policy framework for climate change in the country, several challenges remain ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Sao Tome and Principe UNEP
GCF and KawiSafi Ventures Fund driving off-grid solar power in East Africa
Although the African continent is responsible for only three per cent of the world's human-induced ... greenhouse gas emissions each year, it is expected to suffer some of the most severe consequences of climate ... renewable off-grid energy as a faster, cheaper, and cleaner way to bring power to communities in East Africa. Rwanda has ...
Article > Story Kenya Rwanda Acumen 
Green Climate Fund and Somalia: Accelerated USD 100 million investment partnership
... The Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) Executive Director, Mafalda Duarte headed the first-ever GCF delegation to ... displacing more than six million people, pushing Somalis away from their homes into overcrowded towns and cities. ... to supporting the government with what it needs, so that together with the flourishing private sector and civil society ...
Article > Press release Somalia 
GCF workshop strengthens direct access to climate finance
The second GCF Empowering Direct Access workshop opens today to help developing countries progress innovative ... at GCF’s headquarters in Songdo, Republic of Korea, for the four-day workshop. They include Direct Access ... Empowering Direct Access workshop is to help GCF explore ways it can strengthen the role of these key, country-driven ...
Article > Press release 
Strong partnerships between countries and entities central to delivering GCF mandate
... countries are key partners in working with communities to turn the Fund’s mandate into concrete actions on the ... Entities attended the event, which provided an opportunity for exchange with the Board’s two Co-chairs, Mr. Ayman ... value of the work programme exercise and offered ideas on ways to increase exchanges among the Fund’s 48 entities, ...
Article > Press release 
Kyrgyzstan sees GCF partnership as key to its future
... of its development, one of the mountainous country’s top diplomats told the Fund’s Executive Director Howard ... is exploring opportunities with the Fund to come up with ways to deal with the onset of climate change, which Mr ... Preparatory Support Programme to assist Kyrgyzstan put together its adaptation plans, with a funding limit of USD 3 ...
Article > Press release Kyrgyzstan 
Co-Chairs' expectations for the 15th meeting of the GCF Board
... Climate Fund (B.15) will be held in Apia, Samoa, from 13 to 15 December 2016. It will be the first time the Board has ... be to consider applications for accredited entity status, ways to enable easier and faster access to resources for certain activities, and the budget and Work Plan for 2017. The Co-Chairs are confident that ...
Article > Press release 
Growing water awareness in tackling climate challenge
... is playing an increasingly key role in responding to climate change, the acting head of the Green Climate Fund ... showed just how important water has become in considering ways to reduce emissions and prepare countries for the future onset of climate change. “Climate ...
Article > Press release Hungary 
Head of GCF addresses Asia-Pacific leaders: ‘Climate change action is an enabler of the SDGs’
The Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund, Héla Cheikhrouhou, today ... stated Ms. Cheikhrouhou. “We need to change the way we make our daily investment and consumption ... Countries (LDCs). “Work with us,” she urged. “Together we can start to turn the ambitious targets of the ...
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GCF agreement with FAO helps climate proof agriculture in Latin America
Efforts to enhance Latin American farmers’ climate ... the Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) on Saturday opens the way for the transfer of USD 25.1 million in GCF funds to the Poverty, Reforestation, Energy and Climate Change ...
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GCF to explore how to extend REDD+ coverage at Asia-Pacific Forestry Week
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) will search for ways to expand the Fund’s use of climate finance to protect and ... under the REDD+ financing umbrella. REDD+ refers to the UNFCCC-based accounting and funding mechanism that supports ...
Article > Press release 
Message from GCF on the COVID-19 pandemic
... than any in living memory, and GCF has not been spared. To date, three GCF staff members and one colleague from a ... where GCF is based, as well as those in other countries. Together, we are taking all necessary steps to limit the risks ... our operations – in a more agile, adaptable and virtual way – so that we can deliver on our critical mandate to ...
Article > Press release Republic of Korea (the) 
Strengthening the resilience of ecosystems and populations in four regional hubs in northern Mauritania
... urbanisation context. Driven by a complex set of factors, this is expanding regional hubs, which are becoming ... that basis, substantive investment are made in a systemic way on the ground to increase resilience, including land ... project also seeks to strengthen the enabling environment for mainstreaming climate change in key national policies, ...
Document > Concept note Mauritania UNEP
GCF leadership forum helps turn COVID-19 recovery into cause for climate hope
... states, government ministers and UN representatives called today for global solidarity to scale up action to address ... most important part of the human condition is to be able always to keep awareness that we can only survive as a species ... inspired countries to build financial solutions that are targeted to produce positive effects in the way we contribute ...
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International day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
November 25 is the international day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. So what have ... incidence of violence against women gone down, is the world today better than it was last year, yesterday? Unfortunately ... for us, even if we had been making some progress in some ways, COVID and its aftermath has drawn us back. As UNWOMEN ...
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Update of the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (NAP) in Chile
Chile is considered by the UNFCCC criteria as a highly vulnerable country to climate change and is making an effort to tackle these circumstances in a systematic way, even in a context of limited financial and human ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chile FAO
Establishing an Evidence-Based National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process at National and Subnational Scales in Cambodia Phase 1
The overall objective of the project is to Strengthen institutional and scientific capacity in ... the first phase only, although details and proposed budget for the second phase have been included for reference. ... adaptation. Overall, all Cambodians will benefit in some way from improved adaptation planning capabilities in the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cambodia
GCF’s second replenishment continues with first consultation meeting
... convened representatives of potential and existing contributor countries, Board members, the GCF Trustee, and observers (GCF active observers and secretariats of the UNFCCC, Adaptation Fund and CIF) to discuss details of GCF’s ... in the second replenishment period is to explore new ways of programming for smaller scale projects so that we ...
Article > News update 
Capacity Building to prepare for the implementation of Carbon Markets and Article 6 in Latin America
According to the World Bank, carbon pricing is an effective way to ... carbon pricing can create strong economic incentives for the changes needed in investment, production, and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries UNEP
Strategic Readiness to support the Updated NDC and its Climate Action for Georgia: Transforming Agriculture Sector through Low-Emissions and Climate-Resilient Pathways
... institutional capacity building and financial resources to implement their policies and plan future actions at all ... from national level to cities and municipalities, all the way to providing national vision and implementation support ... it is critical to support NDA in developing a Roadmap for the Low-carbon Development of the Agriculture Sector in ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Georgia FAO
Enabling the National Adaptation Plan Formulation and Implementation process and other adaptation planning processes in The Gambia
... Country (LDC) and among the most vulnerable countries to the effects of climate change. Studies indicate that The ... change impacts and has a low adaptative capacity. Therefore, increasing the resilience of the country to climate ... climate change adaptation in a more coherent and efficient way. This is what the National Adaptation Planning (NAP) ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Gambia UNEP
Concept note screening
... project proposal. They are an optional step, but provide a way for a project proposer to receive early feedback from GCF, indicating whether the ...
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Improving resilience in the Republic of North Macedonia by integrating adaptation into planning processes
The primary objective of this proposal is to increase the resilience of the Republic of North ... development. This advancement process will target key institutions from the national to the municipal ... the identification of three primary gaps standing in the way of achieving the project objective. The gaps are (i) ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal North Macedonia UNDP