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Structured Dialogue with Asia 2017
... aimed to develop a roadmap for priorities of the Fund in this region. The consultations took place in the context of the GCF Strategic Plan and recent Board decisions that provide support for the development of paradigm ... are being led by direct access entities. Over time, this percentage is expected to increase as more direct access ...
Event > Structured dialogue Indonesia 
Bonn side event links climate ambition to GCF replenishment
... side event during the current Bonn climate talks has emphasised the link between NDC implementation and replenishment. Developing country representatives highlighted the role of GCF in realising the existing National Determined Contributions (NDCs), ...
Article > Press release Germany 
GCF and World Bank partner to boost cookstove market in Bangladesh
... Bangladesh initiative designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation, while also lessening health risks for Bangladesh people. About 66 percent of the ... offer a great opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve people’s health, while this project ...
Article > Press release Bangladesh FP070 
Partner agreements after Board meeting sign of faster GCF financing
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has signed agreements with is partners to implement four new climate initiatives only ... The projects to strengthen climate action in Liberia, Uzbekistan, Jordan and Congo were given the green light during ... to set the parameters of implementation, reporting, disbursement and budgeting for each individual GCF climate ...
Article > Press release 
Thematic brief: Oceans
... regional stability and conserve global biodiversity. This generates vital ecosystem goods and services that support ... climate and temperature regulation, absorption of carbon emissions, fisheries, food security, coastal protection, tourism ...
Document > Thematic brief
Policies: Risk management framework
Risk management framework GCF’s risk management framework defines GCF’s approach to managing risk at both the institutional and funding proposal ... covering funding, non-financial, investment and compliance risks. It also contains GCF’s risk appetite, approach to ...
Basic page > Policy map
Adaptation planning support through GGGI
Rwanda is undergoing rapid urbanization as one of its main economic growth and transformation drivers, while risks from climate change continues to pose a challenge. ... interventions related to urban and the built environment. This National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Readiness project ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Rwanda
Postcard from Katowice: Wednesday, December 12
... and encouragement to greater ambition for the GCF replenishment from Germany and Norway in particular. GCF's second official side event of this year’s COP focused on the Fund's achievements to date, ...
Article > Press release 
Summary of outcomes of the 24th meeting of the GCF Board
... over the meeting as Co-Chairs. Representatives of the UNFCCC secretariat, the World Bank (GCF Trustee), and the Board’s independent Technical Advisory Panel and its Accreditation Panel were present, as ... approved by the Board. This document does not represent the official report of the meeting. Summary of outcomes of the ...
Document > Summary of outcomes of the meeting of the GCF Board
GCF-1 Progress Report
... years, in the face of COVID-19, political and economic crises, the need for urgent climate action has become ever ... period (referred to as ‘GCF-1’), ahead of its replenishment for the next four years. The GCF-1 Progress Report ... who was appointed as the incoming Executive Director will officially start her term in July 2023. GCF-1 Progress ...
Document > Annual report
Luxembourg and GCF meet to discuss climate finance mobilization
During COP 22, Luxembourg’s Environment Minister, Ms. Carole Dieschbourg, and the Green Climate Fund ... Executive Director a.i., Mr. Javier Manzanares, met to discuss the Fund’s progress over the past year, as well as ... to international climate finance, which is additional to Official Development Assistance, amounting to USD 230 per ...
Article > Press release Luxembourg 
Building the engagement of Burkina Faso with the GCF: Establishing and strengthening national institutions to engage with GCF and formulate a country programme
... plans, and priorities are already formulated in several official documents, such as the NAPA, NAP, INDCs, NAMAs plan ... in line with PNDES*. Altogether they constitute the basis for a country programme, cornerstone for the preparation, ... Fund, and engagement of stakeholders, including from administration, private sector, civil society, with equal ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Burkina Faso
GCF Global NDA Conference 2018
The Green Climate Fund is pleased to host the Global NDA Conference on 8-9 and 12 ... to exchange ideas, hear from technology investors, and discuss climate investment opportunities — all in an effort ... and development of project pipelines. Government officials will provide firsthand accounts of how GCF ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the) 
GCF’s PPMS Readiness Report Module Webinar
... funded activities and the Readiness Programme since its official launch in January 2021. In particular, the PPMS for ... Support Programme was soft-launched in July 2022 and the disbursement module was launched in October 2022. During this webinar, the GCF Secretariat will introduce the newly ...
Event > Webinar 
GCF's PPMS Webinar on APR submission for AEs for CY2022
Since its official launch in January 2021, the GCF Secretariat has ... to supporting AEs in submitting the CY2022 APRs as the submission deadlines are approaching. All the AEs and any other ... of the webinar will be held with interpretation to Spanish and French, as well as live captioning, allowing for ...
Event > Webinar 
Creating the enabling conditions for the implementation of the Loss & Damage (L&D) mechanism in Ecuador
... geographical location and socioeconomic conditions, Ecuador is highly vulnerable to external factors of various kinds, ... caused by these events in the past decades, there is no official economic quantification in Ecuador that enables the ... the national or international negotiations related to the UNFCCC Loss and Damage (L&D) mechanism. The main goal of ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ecuador
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
Climate finance forum shows Pacific potential
... identifying the way ahead for focusing climate finance in this vulnerable part of the world, particularly in building ... projects totalling more than USD 250 million in the Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, ... across the Pacific region, in addition to senior government officials, including representatives of GCF National ...
Article > Press release 
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 
Indigenous Peoples
Overview Indigenous Peoples are unique and a distinct stakeholder of GCF. The rights of Indigenous Peoples ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including in the Cancun Agreement. The preamble of the Paris Agreement also acknowledges that Parties should, when ...
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GCF-1
GCF's first replenishment GCF’s first replenishment (2020-2023) is an important element of the financial commitments needed to deliver the UNFCCC and its Paris Agreement. This first replenishment is ...
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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
ED lecture
It is an honor to deliver the Barbara Ward Lecture this year. Barbara was a woman ahead of her time, a visionary ... adaptation crisis is already upon is. Today, disasters push 26 million people into poverty each year . And today, low ...
Article > Speech
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 FP100 