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African countries propose ambitious GCF pipeline at Cape Town Dialogue
... Climate Fund Structured Dialogue with Africa concluded this week after three days of focused deliberations on helping ... climate-resilient projects that were discussed between 24-26 October. Project concepts covered mitigation and ... National Designated Authorities (NDAs) or focal points, UNFCCC Focal Points, and officials from national ministries of ...
Article > Press release South Africa 
Keynote for P4G Seoul 2021
This week’s P4G Summit is an important opportunity to build momentum to deliver global climate change ambitions whilst also realising the Sustainable Development Goals. The ambition is ... trillion of negative-yielding debt in OECD countries and $26 trillion of low carbon, climate resilient investment ...
Article > Speech
Agence Française de Developpement
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is a public international financial institution established several decades ago. The mandate of AFD is to ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), International France
Addressing the climate crisis: scaling up existing climate innovation and investment
... to thank the organizers for the opportunity to address this prestigious forum. Today my remarks will focus on the ... and build global momentum in the leadup to the pivotal COP26 in Glasgow at the end of the year. A key challenge is to ... live in countries where wind and solar power offer the cheapest new electrical generating capacity. Over the past ...
Article > Speech
Eighth meeting of the GCF Board (B.08)
... accreditation approach Assessment, including gap analysis, of institutions accredited by other relevant funds ... and social safeguards Application documents for submissions of applications for accreditation Initial results ... No-objection procedure Best practices for the establishment and composition of National Designated Authorities ...
Event > Board meeting
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 ... Nevertheless, despite these goals, the potential of emissions reductions Traditional Fire Management (ER TFM) to address land sector issues arising from frequent wildfires in this region ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Belize
Advancing Lao PDR’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) through Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments for Disaster Risk Management in human settlements
This NAP Readiness proposal was developed by UN-Habitat Office ... requested by the NDA, Climate Change Department (DCC), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), to ... capacity on climate change-related planning for government officials across the country. The immediate beneficiaries of ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Lao People's Democratic Republic (the)
Enhanced actions to respond to climate change through sustainable waste management in Coastal Cities in Cambodia
As Cambodia is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, it is imperative to improve its water management, especially ... The direct beneficiaries of this proposal will be technical officials from the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cambodia
Lao PDR connecting climate resilience and green growth
The Lao People’s Democratic Republic is embarking on a green growth strategy to ensure its socio-economic development is sustainable and anchored in protecting the environment ... the hour-long discussion, the delegation engaged with GCF officials to better understand how the Fund works and ...
Article > Press release Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) 
New Executive Director takes office at the Green Climate Fund
Howard Bamsey has officially begun his duties as new Executive Director of the ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by financing climate mitigation and adaptation ...
Article > Press release 
Algeria outlines climate action ahead of COP 21
During a one-day visit to the Algerian capital, the Executive Director of the ... Fund, Héla Cheikhrouhou, interacted with government officials to learn first hand about the country’s climate ... the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC. Upon invitation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ...
Article > Press release Algeria 
GCF to explore how to extend REDD+ coverage at Asia-Pacific Forestry Week
... about forest-based climate finance. Leading environment officials from the governments of Indonesia, Bhutan, ... gas reduction and environmental protection during the discussion panel. This year marks an important milestone for ... 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
... who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. This worldwide pandemic is more devastating than any in living memory, and GCF has ... Climate Fund is working hand-in-hand with public health officials, medical experts and the authorities of the ...
Article > Press release Republic of Korea (the) 
Brazilian Platform of sustainability: traceability and certification for cattle and soybeans supply chain in the Amazon
... climate change and reduction of greenhouse gasses (GHG) emissions, but fails to implement it on a large scale, keep ... by those initiatives in a coordinated manner. The country is responsible for a significant share of globalGHG ... and soybeans supply chains in the “Legal Amazon”, the official designation by the Brazilian Bureau of Geography ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Brazil
Generation of a Conceptual Framework for the National Climate Change Registry of Ecuador (RNCC) and Design of a Version V.0 of the Measuring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system as part of the RNCC
... framework on climate change and made several instruments official, including the National Climate Change Strategy ... and the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), and is currently developing the National Adaptation Plan ... Plan (PLAMICC) and the National Climate Finance Strategy (ENFC). Ecuador recently adopted the environmental law and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ecuador
GCF’s PPMS disbursement module webinar
Following its official launch in January 2021, the GCF Secretariat is expanding the portfolio performance management system ... contains any number of modules including those for submissions for Annual Performance Reports, inception reports, ...
Event > Webinar 
Enhancing Country Capacity for Accessing and Implementing Climate Finance Interventions in Nepal
The proposed project is expected to address and overcome the hierarchical disconnect between the federal government and local ... and understanding of provincial and local government officials in Nepal on climate finance opportunities and how ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Nepal
Strengthening Nigeria’s Capacity to engage in Climate Action for a low-emissions and climate resilient development pathway.
... change challenges; in the north drought and desertification is advancing southwards with resultant communal clashes ... gully erosion causing frequent landslides with attendant displacement of communities and forced migration; in the ... coordinate and effectively engage with the GCF (Following official and informal conversations with people that have ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Nigeria
Postcard from Katowice: Wednesday, December 5
... has been busy today, and the Fund also hosted its first official side event of COP24. But these events are only part of the reason that GCF is in Poland, so today's Postcard from Katowice will try to ... level, the gathering of all the parties to the UNFCCC in one place for two weeks gives a great opportunity to ...
Article > Press release 
Samoan and Australian ministers welcome delegates to the GCF’s first Pacific Board meeting
Samoa’s Minister for Finance, the Hon Sili Epa Tuioti, and Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Senator ... for climate finance in the region. Speaking at the official welcome reception held at Samoa’s Robert Louis ...
Article > Press release Samoa 
Structured Dialogue with the Caribbean 2018
... the Caribbean, held on 6-9 November, brought together Ministers and senior government officials, GCF representatives, Accredited Entities, ... vulnerability to devastating impacts of climate change. This year’s event sought to further advance these ...
Event > Structured dialogue Grenada 
Addressing pre-accreditation gaps for the Environmental Management Authority of Trinidad & Tobago
... and Regional Access Entities; however, by establishing a national Direct Access Entity (DAE) the country will be able to exercise ownership of climate change funding and better integrate ... the EMA with the GCF accreditation requirements so that an official accreditation request can be made by 2022. The ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Trinidad and Tobago
Rwanda Cooling Initiative: Enabling Deployment of Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Cooling
... refrigeration in the Republic of Rwanda (hereafter Rwanda) is projected to increase substantially as the population and ... cooling storage). The growing demand for cooling will raise consumption of electricity, straining Rwanda’s ... the capacities of stakeholders (particularly national officials with regulatory oversight of cooling products, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Rwanda
Resilient Puna: Nature-based climate solutions for sustainable high Andean communities and ecosystems in Peru
Peruvian ́s Ministry of Agriculture (MIDAGRI) has appointed GIZ as the ... development obtained in 2021. Additionally, the project is reflected in the GCF country program and the CN has been officially endorsed by the NDA on January 2022 To date, GIZ ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Peru
mproving Technical Capacity and Enabling Conditions to Mobilize Public Climate Finance for Nature-based Solutions Projects, Accelerating the Implementation of Chile's Climate Change Framework Law
... developed a robust legal framework to address the climate crisis through the enactment of the Framework Law on Climate ... within the national, subnational and local government, officials to design and assess public NbS investment ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chile
Vietnam Development Bank
... (VDB), a national direct access entity based in Viet Nam, is a state-owned development bank mandated to execute the ... conforming to the regulations of the government. With a mission and related functions focused on fund mobilization, ... for small-and medium-size enterprises’ loans and on-lends official development assistance for over 400 projects. With ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), Direct (National) Viet Nam
Africa Finance Corporation
The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) is a regional entity established through a public–private ... in the region. With the view of achieving its mandate, AFC has established strategic partnerships with other ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), Direct (Regional) Nigeria
European Investment Bank
... European Investment Bank (EIB) headquartered in Luxembourg, is an international financial entity whose main objective in developing countries is to provide finance and expertise for sound and sustainable investment projects, in both ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), International Luxembourg
Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
As of 5 November 2022 Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) is no longer a GCF Accredited Entity. For historical purposes, the documents and/or projects associated with KfW are listed on this page. The Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), International Germany
Ministry of Finance of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation of the Federal ... Republic of Ethiopia (MOFEC), formerly known as the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, is a national entity located in Ethiopia. Its mandate is to ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), Direct (National) Ethiopia