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Developing and implementing the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process in Burundi
... Burundi will experience a shift in seasons and unpredictable weather patterns. This is projected to cause increased ... Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) submitted to the UNFCCC in 2006. It also developed a National Policy on Climate ... the NPCC, the Government presented their vision and principles. In 2013, the Government prepared a National Strategy ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Burundi
Partnering on climate action in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
... across eastern Europe and central Asia came together to accelerate their engagement with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) ... with finance to support their communities and their people in mitigation and adaptation to climate change should be ... entities and delivery partners, as well as international accredited entities and key international counterparts to ...
Article > News update North Macedonia 
Climate adaptation of agricultural value chains in the Norte Grande of Argentina: promoting the holistic management of agroecosystems
... play essential economic, social, and environmental roles. National Law 27,118 (2014) assigns cultural heritage ... Additionally, family agricultural systems play a crucial role in sustaining economically important agricultural chain ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Argentina
Strengthening National Fiduciary Capacity for GCF Accreditation of Eswatini Environment Authority
... only a small portion of the actual need, The costs of implementing the country’s Nationally Determined ... through supporting two national institutions to be accredited to GCF contribute to national climate action, ... agreements with national private companies and regional accredited entities for enhanced resources mobilization ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Eswatini
Strengthening Carbon Capture Storage and Reporting Frameworks and Mechanisms
... last decade were the highest on record (UNEP 2022). Nevertheless, the gap between estimated total GHG emissions ... to limit GHG emission in accordance with the goals of the UNFCCC. This includes augmenting public systems for capturing, ... enhance their capacity to meet and maintain the GCF’s accreditation standards (2) supporting relevant country ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Suriname Trinidad and Tobago
Enhancing The Capacity of The Bahamas for Direct Access to Climate Finance
The Bahamas is ranked as one of the top 10 most vulnerable countries in the world with regards to climate change and ... to advance its mitigation and adaptation projects. Those legislations, policies and plans that are relevant to this ... projects will be implemented as a result of the accreditation of Direct Access Entities in The Bahamas Bahamas ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bahamas
Enhancing Zambia’s Private Sector Access to Climate Finance and Participation in NDC Implementation
... of innovative financing instruments, as well as limited knowledge and understanding of these instruments in the context ... investments by the private sector and its capacity to leverage public financing. By all accounts, engaging the ... sector participation in the pursuit of Zambia’s implementation of its NDC and climate finance goals. The ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Zambia
Strengthening Adaptation Planning and Coordination in Namibia
... characteristics make it one of the most vulnerable developing countries to the impacts of climate change. ... water availability in Namibia, an already limited, unreliable and scarce resource. Key sectors such as human health, ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a Non-Annex I Party in 1995 and the Paris Agreement ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Namibia
Enhancing the institutional capacity of South Africa to coordinate green hydrogen activities of the Hydrogen Society Roadmap
... of South Africa’s emissions in 2017. South Africa’s electricity mix remains dominated by coal-fired power ... to 83.5% to system demand in 2020, followed by renewables (5.5%) and nuclear (5.2%). At same time, natural ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal South Africa
Strengthening the NDA’s institutional capacity, mechanism and Country Programming for strategic engagement with GCF
... of achieving a 15% of emission reduction by 2025, equivalent to an estimated mitigation level of 39,7 million tCO2e. ... capacity within NDA that enable them to fulfil their roles and responsibilities towards the GCF and enhance their ... Barrier 2: The country has no national direct access accredited entity to the GCF. Barrier 3: Absence of strategic ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Angola
Enabling the National Adaptation Plan Formulation and Implementation process and other adaptation planning processes in The Gambia
Republic of The Gambia (hereafter The Gambia) is a Least Developed Country (LDC) and among the most vulnerable countries to the effects of climate change. Studies indicate that The Gambia is vulnerable to climate change impacts and has a low adaptative ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Gambia
A Climate Resilient Leyte through Integrated River Basin Governance in Flood Risk Management
The Province of Leyte is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate variability and change, ... typhoons. This has caused alteration to the ecosystems coupled with malpractices from the community thus resulted to ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Philippines (the)
SIDS Prime Ministers supercharge GCF regional dialogue with the Caribbean
... Minister Terrance Drew and Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley kicked off the 2025 GCF Regional Dialogue with the ... comprising governments, National Designated Authorities, Accredited Entities, and other partners from the Caribbean ... to access GCF financing. “Our islands face escalating challenges from climate change, including rising sea levels, ...
Article > News update 
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
Chile has developed a robust legal framework to address the climate crisis through the ... of the Framework Law on Climate Change (LMCC). This legislation mandates the government—across central, regional, and local levels—to create a variety of essential instruments, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chile
National Adaptation Plan on Water Resources (NAP WR) in Paraguay
... management in Paraguay faces significant risks and challenges derived from climate change, which are further ... of water-related disasters. To address these challenges, the water sector faces five priority barriers ... including vulnerable communities, women, Indigenous Peoples, the private sector, and civil society; iv) Lack of ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Paraguay
Strengthen the Belize National Protected Area System (BNPAS) to provide Resilience, and Reduce Vulnerability of Community against Climate Change
... of climate change, especially in high-risk areas. Coupled with improving the livelihoods of the most vulnerable populations, improved management of PAs can be sustained ... or the private sectors, when there is harmony between people and the environment. Belize is ranked 9th in the list of ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Belize
Recognising women’s leadership in climate action and gender equality
In Fianarantsoa, Madagascar, women are leading efforts in their communities to restore degraded ... household responsibilities, and taking on leadership roles within their communities. On International Women’s ... Evaluation Unit. Written by Jin Hee Dieu Madagascar FP026 Recognising women’s leadership in climate action and ...
Article > Story Madagascar 
Cirkula: the innovative app tackling food waste in Peru
Peru is celebrated worldwide for its rich gastronomy, yet it faces ... environmental impact of food waste is enormous.” Michelle Gomberoff, Co-Founder and CEO of Cirkula Cirkula, an ... solving one of the world's most pressing environmental challenges. Michelle Gomberoff, Cirkula Co-Founder and CEO, ...
Article > Story Peru 
GCF Regional Programming Dialogue with Asia and the Pacific: enhancing regional access to climate finance
... (DAEs) and several representatives of International Accredited Entities (IAE) along with GCF staff to discuss ways to accelerate access to climate finance in a region hit hard by the ... and further updates, please visit the official GCF website or contact the GCF Regional Desk for Asia Pacific. ...
Article > News update 
The global water crisis: A call to action for climate and water initiatives
... with the impacts of climate change becoming more visible every day. Urgent and courageous steps are needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement. The ... policymakers, and academia also hold pivotal roles in accelerating SDGs' success. GCF's goal is to deploy ...
Article > Insights 
Mobilising financing for agricultural technologies: seeding a climate resilient and food-secure future
Over the last 100 years, agriculture has scaled up like never before to feed the world’s growing ... receives only 5 per cent of all climate finance – with less than USD 500 million of private investment. As the ...
Article > Story Multiple countries 
Niue launches community of practice to accelerate climate action in the Pacific
... (NDAs) and regional and national organisations accredited by GCF. Complementing existing structures, this unprecedented community ... launched its Strategic Framework and Country Programme (SFCP), Readiness Needs Assessment, and Standard Operating ...
Article > News update Niue 
Ecuador’s bold bet on mangroves: A climate solution rooted in community and capital
... of the Pacific, where land blurs into water and roots tangle beneath the tide, Ecuador’s mangrove forests stand as ... the past two decades, these vital ecosystems have been depleted and decimated, largely due to urbanisation and ... traditional crabbers in the region, she has watched helplessly as once-thriving mangrove forests are cleared—often ...
Article > Story Ecuador 
GCF signs six new project agreements after 36th Board meeting
... increasing speed in moving projects from approval to implementation on the ground. The projects will increase ... present an opportunity to directly support indigenous peoples and local communities who are intimately connected with ... and awareness about the impacts of climate change. SAP026: Extended Community Climate Change Project-Drought ...
Article > News update 
Country commitments and ambitions
... ownership and a country-driven approach are core principles of GCF. One of our operational priorities is to ... to be determined by each country. GCF has built this principle of country ownership into all its activities to ensure ...
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EBRD and Green Climate Fund join forces to support major renewable energy project in Egypt
... up to make a major contribution to a USD$ 1 billion renewable energy project in Egypt. The funding supports the ... arrangements to implement projects between GCF and its Accredited Entities, such as the EBRD. GCF currently has 54 Accredited Entities, which propose climate finance projects ...
Article > Press release Egypt 
GCF's first REDD+ results-based payment boosts financial incentive to protect forests
... point in helping turn REDD+ from a topic of years of UNFCCC negotiations into payments for achievement of past ... like Brazil to halt deforestation can, and should, be acknowledged," said Mr Chang. Brazil will reinvest the USD 96.5 ... to prevent illegal deforestation. REDD+ refers to the UNFCCC-based accounting and funding mechanism that supports ...
Article > Press release Brazil 
Structured Dialogue with Eastern Europe and Central Asia connects climate ambition to climate finance
“Without financing, ideas, however noble they may be, will remain on paper." These were impactful ... host country of the event, is particularly susceptible to the impacts of climate change. Deputy Prime Minister ... The Dialogue was successful in clarifying the process for accreditation, as well as highlighting the different options ...
Article > Press release Tajikistan 
Nauru President praises GCF move to streamlined approval
... Pacific Island states. “This will solve a lot of our problems,” said President Waqa, the incoming chair of the Pacific Islands Forum , during a high-level visit by Pacific Island state representatives to the ... Nationally Determined Contributions . The delegation visited GCF as part of its participation in the Korea Pacific ...
Article > Press release Nauru 
Focus on adaptation planning at COP 23, surge in requests for GCF support
... not be a pretext for putting off preventative action, a leading UN figure in adaptation said during a seminar ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). “We are dealing with uncertainty all the time in ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at a technical seminar about strengthening the quality ...
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