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Where do we stand with NDCs? Enhancing action on climate change in 2020
I would like to congratulate UNFCCC for this timely event on enhancing action on climate change ... raising NDC ambitions and was supposed to culminate at COP 26 this November. However, the Covid-19 pandemic is ...
Article > Speech
GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference 2021
Join us for the 4th annual GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference (GPIC). A timely forerunner to COP26, GPIC 2021 will convene global leaders, executives, ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Record finance and increased impact: GCF delivers for ‘implementation COP’ as it marks 10 years of climate action
... the year where we have programmed the most ever – USD 3.26 billion in new climate finance. But impact is equally ... in terms of what have we learned and what do we take going forward,” continued Duarte. “We are very committed to ... the Paris Agreement. Reem Alabali Radovan, German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, told the meeting ...
Article > Press release 
GCF Board opens B.19 meeting, elects Lennart Båge and Paul Oquist as new Co-Chairs
... agenda, the Board has decided to convert today's planned informal meeting into a formal Board session. The B.19 Board meeting will therefore take place from Monday 26 February until Thursday 1 March, and will be presided by ... developing countries on the Executive Committee of the UNFCCC Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage. Dr. ...
Article > Press release 
Great Green Wall in the Spotlight at COP
Attention and support for the Great Green Wall , an African-led initiative to restore land and ecosystems in Africa, were reinforced at COP26. As a funder of several projects in the Sahel region ...
Article > News update 
GCF targets private investment shift at inaugural climate conference
... the Republic of Korea. The two-day Private Investment for Climate Conference addresses the need to capture the ... zero' around 2050. GCF is hosting the Private Investment for Climate Conference to explore how businesses can help to ... that climate action could yield an economic gain of USD 26 trillion through to 2030 compared with business-as-usual. ...
Article > Press release 
GCF, UN Environment launch project to fortify the Gambia against droughts, floods
... agricultural landscapes and degraded ecosystems - including forests, mangroves and savannahs - using climate-resilient ... in a country like the Gambia, which relies on agriculture for about 40 percent of its national exports and 26 percent of its GDP. The geographic nature of this ...
Article > Press release Gambia UNEP 
GCF and Africa Finance Corporation drive low-emission development in Africa
... today of an agreement with the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC). The two organizations signed an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA), a prerequisite for all GCF Accredited Entities to implement GCF-approved ... wind farm in Sub-Saharan Africa. The USD90 million, 26MW Cabeolica project provides over 20 percent of Cape ...
Article > Press release AFC 
Strengthening institutional capacities and coordination mechanisms for accelerating and scaling up the mobilization of climate finance in Mozambique
Mozambique submitted its updated NDC during COP26 in Glasgow. It has been estimated that the country will need at least USD 11 billion for the implementation of its NDC during the first ... 5-10% of the financial needs have been mobilized. Therefore, additional efforts are urgently required to accelerate ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Mozambique
GCF and Acumen sign agreement to promote resilient agriculture in East and West Africa
... projects in East and West Africa. GCF has committed USD 26 million to Acumen aimed at ensuring long-term sustainable ... increases in agriculture productivity and incomes for smallholder farmers. GCF Private Sector Facility Deputy ... parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and given the mandate to fund climate action to limit ...
Article > Press release Acumen 
GCF heralds innovative ‘Bhutan for Life’ partnership at launch ceremony
... comprise 51 percent of the country’s territory. Bhutan for Life is the Green Climate Fund’s first project with ... the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). GCF’s contribution of USD 26.6 million was approved by its Board last month to support ... will provide funding to prevent threats to Bhutan’s forests, preserving their role as a carbon sink. Bhutan for ...
Article > Press release Bhutan WWF 
Structured Dialogue with Asia 2018
The Structured Dialogue with Asia brought 26 countries from across the region to Da Nang in Viet Nam ... from May 17 to 20. The Dialogue provided an important platform for diverse stakeholders – including government ministers, ...
Event > Structured dialogue Viet Nam 
A sliver of hope from the middle of the Pacific Ocean
... the heart of Funafuti. GCF’s mandate is to support transformative climate action. On the ground in the middle of the ... a country whose total land mass across nine islands is only 26 square kilometres. The new land is the largest safe zone ... on the new seafront with Dr. Arthur Webb, the Pacific’s foremost authority on adaptation in atoll nations. He is ...
Article > Insights 
GCF.10: 10 years of climate impact
... Impact Report: Overview" is now out! Follow GCF at COP30: visit the website Raising Ambition, Empowering Action In ... 2015, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved USD 6.2 million for its first project in Peru’s Amazon basin. Since then, ... on GCF’s journey and impact as the world’s climate fund for developing countries and reinforces GCF’s commitment ...
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GCF/B.22/Inf.08 - Board decisions proposed between the twenty-first and twenty-second meetings of the Board
This document provides information on decisions proposed between the twenty-first and ...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.20/Inf.08 - Report on the activities of the Secretariat
... provides an update on the activities of the Secretariat for the period 1 January to 30 April 2018. It summarizes ... 2018 work programme, as well as tracking key performance indicators identified in the work programme results ...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.20/11 - Consolidated country and entity work programmes
... with GCF. The Board is requested to take note of the information provided in this document and to adopt the ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.19/22/Rev.02 - Consideration of funding proposals
This document presents the funding proposals to the Board for consideration at its nineteenth meeting. It also ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.19/22/Add.28/Rev.02 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum XXVIII: Secretariat's review
... the public sector funding proposals (FP059-FP077) submitted for the Board’s consideration at its nineteenth meeting. ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.19/02 - Guidance from the twenty-third session of the Conference of the Parties: Co-Chairs’ proposal
This document presents the proposed actions to be undertaken by the Board in 2018 in response to guidance received from the Parties during the twenty-third session of the Conference of the Parties.
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.16/Inf.15 - Update on progress in addressing guidance from the twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties
... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at its twenty-second session, in particular UNFCCC decision 10/CP.22 titled “Report of the Green Climate ...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.14/Inf.11 - Relationship with United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change thematic bodies
This document provides a concept for the first annual meeting with the thematic bodies of UNFCCC, which will be held during the first week of the twenty ...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.02-12/03 - Work Plan of the Board until the End of 2013
This document sets out the Board’s work plan for the period until the end of 2013 (referred to ... on the provisions contained in the Governing Instrument for the Green Climate Fund and relevant guidance from the ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.05/19 - Draft Report of the Board of the Green Climate Fund to the COP
The following draft report is a working draft for consideration by the Board, to be revised to reflect ... A more complete draft of this document will be prepared for consideration by the current Co-Chairs after the October ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.10/08 - Fourth Report of the Green Climate Fund to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It covers the activities undertaken by the Fund ...
Board document > Information
Low-Carbon Public Transport in Windhoek
This concept note provides basic information on the project/programme "Low-Carbon Public ...
Document > Concept note Namibia
Local Governments and Climate Change (LGCC)
This concept note provides basic information on the project/programme "Local Governments and ...
Document > Concept note Cambodia
Decisions made for information disclosure request IDP015
... this request has been partially granted. Decisions made for information disclosure request IDP015 ...
Document > Information disclosure decision
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Mauritania through Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development
With this request for the standardised readiness package for activity 1 and 2, Mauritania expects to establish a NDA ... NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Mauritania through Ministry of Environment and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Mauritania
Scaling up hydropower sector climate resilience
This document presents funding proposal "FP040: Scaling up hydropower sector climate resilience," as approved by the Board of the Green Climate Fund at B.16.
Document > Approved funding proposal Tajikistan EBRD FP040