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GCF/B.44/16/Add.01 - Review of committees: Co-Chairs’ proposal for an updated structure for Board committees – Addendum I: Response matrix for comments received on the draft document
This document contains the response matrix for Board comments ...
Board document > Information
Adaptation planning support for Serbia through UNDP
... project, informed by a consultative process that was officially launched in June 2016, will enable the Republic ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Serbia
Letter of confirmation of leave template
This template enables countries to formally confirm that the ... will be on leave without pay and fully relieved of all official duties for the duration of the placement. Letter of ...
Document > Template
GCF approves 11 projects at its final Board meeting of the year
... projects and programmes valued at USD 392.86 million to assist developing countries respond to climate change. The 18th ... United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). FP050 – USD 26.56 million for the Bhutan for Life project in Bhutan with ... United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). FP052 – USD 26.91 million for the Sustainable and Climate Resilient ...
Article > Press release 
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 in ... raising NDC ambitions and was supposed to culminate at COP 26 this November. However, the Covid-19 pandemic is ...
Article > Statement 
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 in ... 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
... for Climate Conference (GPIC). A timely forerunner to COP26, GPIC 2021 will convene global leaders, executives, ... countries. As the world struggles to deal with the twin crises of global heating and COVID-19, the need to harness ... GCF Day 2, Closing Session: Reflections on the path to COP26 Speakers: Javier Manzanares, Deputy Executive Director, ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
GCF Board opens B.19 meeting, elects Lennart Båge and Paul Oquist as new Co-Chairs
... nineteenth meeting in Songdo, Republic of Korea. Paul Oquist has been elected as the developing country Co-Chair, ... 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
... land and ecosystems in Africa, were reinforced at COP26. As a funder of several projects in the Sahel region ... a panel at a side event of the World Leaders Summit. Organised by the One Planet Summit and the Pan African Agency of the Great Green Wall, this high-level event was moderated by the Prince of Wales and ...
Article > News update 
GCF targets private investment shift at inaugural climate conference
... and cities. It also finds global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would need to fall by about ... 2010 levels by 2030, reaching 'net zero' around 2050. GCF is hosting the Private Investment for Climate Conference 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
The Gambia's Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources ... launched on Tuesday will provide benefits across all of this West African country. "This timely assistance will ... for about 40 percent of its national exports and 26 percent of its GDP. The geographic nature of this ...
Article > Press release Gambia 
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 ... wind farm in Sub-Saharan Africa. The USD90 million, 26MW Cabeolica project provides over 20 percent of Cape ...
Article > Press release 
GCF upgrades climate support for vulnerable Pacific nations
The Green Climate Fund is improving its understanding of Pacific island needs to fortify their frontline place in the climate ... in 1947 as the South Pacific Commission, as many of its 26 members are Pacific SIDS. The vulnerability of SIDS to ...
Article > Press release 
GCF publishes the tentative funding proposal schedule for B.27
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has published the tentative timeline for its twenty-seventh Board meeting (B.27) following the decision (B.BM-2020/07) by the Board to hold B.27 during the ... It is also noted that the twenty-sixth Board meeting (B.26) will take place virtually from 18 to 21 August 2020. GCF ...
Article > Press release 
GCF publishes the tentative funding proposal schedule for B.29
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has published the tentative timeline for its twenty-ninth Board ... the twenty-eighth Board meeting (B.28). In the document, it is proposed that B.29 takes place on 28 June-1 July 2021 ... of ESS reports for category A and I-1 projects/programmes 26 February 2021* Submission to the independent Technical ...
Article > Press release 
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 ... a number of specific challenges and gaps continue to exist which will require further capacity support and ... the absence of a specific planning and coordination mechanism for driving the national climate finance agenda, the ...
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 ... institutional investors and the private sector . “This project will embolden local businesses and help scale up ... parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and given the mandate to fund climate action to limit ...
Article > Press release 
GCF heralds innovative ‘Bhutan for Life’ partnership at launch ceremony
... permanently preserve Bhutan’s protected areas, which 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 ...
Article > Press release Bhutan 
Structured Dialogue with Asia 2018
The Structured Dialogue with Asia brought 26 countries from across the region to Da Nang in Viet Nam ... for diverse stakeholders – including government ministers, GCF Accredited Entities and National Designated ... GCF. During the high-level interactions of the Dialogue, ministers from a number of Asian countries reaffirmed the need ...
Event > Structured dialogue Viet Nam 
A sliver of hope from the middle of the Pacific Ocean
Sixty metres from one side of the island to the other. Sixty metres from the ocean to the lagoon. Sixty metres from rising sea levels, more powerful and unpredictable storms, ... a country whose total land mass across nine islands is only 26 square kilometres. The new land is the largest safe zone ...
Article > Insights 
The International Development Finance Club and the Green Climate Fund join forces to support Public Development Banks in financing the green transition
Songdo, South Korea, Paris, France 6th November 2020 – The International Development Finance Club (IDFC), the international network of leading national and ... ambition and building momentum in the lead up to COP 26. The IDFC, a group of 26 national and regional PDBs ...
Article > Press release 
Agreement between the Republic of Korea and the Green Climate Fund concerning the Headquarters of the Green Climate Fund
The primary objectives of this Headquarters Agreement are to set out the legal status of ... of the persons associated with it, in addition to the provisions of the Governing Instrument, to allow the Fund to ... and to operate internationally, and to allow the officials of the Fund to independently exercise their ...
Document > Agreement
GCF at COP28: A wrap up of outcomes at COP28
This year’s COP ended on a dramatic note with an agreement ... all eyes will be on Azerbaijan, which was announced as the official host of COP29 from 11-22 November next year. ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), GCF takes guidance from the Conference of Parties ...
Article > News update 
Thirtieth meeting of the GCF Board (B.30)
... of the report of the twenty-ninth meeting of the Board Decisions proposed between the twenty-ninth and thirtieth ... pipeline and portfolio performance Programming and disbursement targets for 2022 Consideration of funding ... evaluation and performance-related pay for Board-appointed officials Matters related to climate rationale Independent ...
Event > Board meeting 
Thirty-first meeting of the GCF Board (B.31)
... of work Report of the thirtieth meeting of the Board Decisions proposed between Board meetings Report on the ... mandates and consultations Appointment of Board-appointed officials and performance-related matters Strategic planning ... performance Implementation of the 2022 programming and disbursement targets Foreign exchange buffer Matters related ...
Event > Board meeting 
Thirty-third meeting of the GCF Board (B.33)
... of work Report of the thirty-second meeting of the Board Decisions proposed between the thirty-second and thirty-third ... activities of the Co-Chairs Co-Chairs' proposal on the existing review of committees and panels Consideration of ... financial terms and conditions Selection of Board-appointed officials Selection of the heads of the independent units ...
Event > Board meeting 
Thirty-fifth meeting of the GCF Board (B.35)
... of work Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the Board Decisions proposed between the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth ... of the Board Report on the activities of the Secretariat Risk management framework Report on the activities of the ... Access Entity modality Appointment of Board-appointed officials Selection of the Executive Director of the GCF ...
Event > Board meeting 
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 twenty-second ... the Board as at 19 February 2019. GCF/B.22/Inf.08 Board decisions proposed between the twenty-first and twenty-second ...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.20/Inf.08 - Report on the activities of the Secretariat
This report provides an update on the activities of the ... results framework. The report includes an update on missions undertaken by the Secretariat during the reporting ...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.20/11 - Consolidated country and entity work programmes
This document presents the progress made on country and entity ... of country and entity programming with GCF. The Board is requested to take note of the information provided in this document and to adopt the decision presented in annex I ...
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