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GCF Board meeting to be held next week
... for approval. These include projects in Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Philippines, Bolivia, ... host a reception during the meeting to thank him for his service to GCF. Other items on the agenda include reports on ... of the meeting’s agenda can be found on the GCF website . GCF Board members and their alternates are drawn ...
Article > News update 
The Green Climate Fund and Africa Finance Corporation sign project agreement for the Infrastructure Climate Resilient Fund (ICRF)
... Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) signed a project agreement to begin implementing the Infrastructure Climate Resilient Fund (ICRF) . ... in March 2023. With the signing of the FAA, AFC, as the Accredited Entity, can move from approval to implementation. ...
Article > News update AFC 
Annual Performance Reporting on GCF Funded Activities through the Updated PPMS
... to streamline interactions with key partners, including Accredited Entities (AEs), Delivery Partners (DPs), and ... and requests in real time. In this regard, we are pleased to cordially invite you, our partners and colleagues ... two sessions will be offered, including interpretation services in Spanish and French. Session 1 Date & Time: ...
Event > Webinar 
Scaling up climate financing in Nepal
... Mega Bank (NIMB) signed a grant agreement on 9 February 2026. The landmark partnership with one of Nepal’s largest ... will strengthen the bank’s institutional capacity to scale up financing for renewable energy, resilient ... GCF’s Director of the Department of Investment Services, commented that catalysing various climate finance ...
Article > News update Nepal NIMB 
Acumen Fund formalises relationship with GCF, its partner for East African distributed solar power
... investment fund, has become the first GCF private sector accredited entity to formalise its relationship with the Green ... from GCF. The Acumen Fund was founded in 2001 as a charitable venture capital fund, with the aim on the idea of ... serve low-income populations with high quality goods and services in the Agriculture, Education, Energy, and Health ...
Article > Press release Acumen 
Forests get a boost from new GCF policy on REDD+ results-based payments
... and forest degradation) is based on the principle that developing countries which reduce their emissions ... livelihoods, biodiversity and other ecological services. Why is the REDD+ results-based payments policy ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The policy also complements GCF’s newly revamped ...
Article > News update 
47 countries express interest in hosting a GCF regional presence
... it serves and deliver more financial support at scale, strengthen national institutions, and build more ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Proposed host cities must be classified as A or B per the International Civil Service Commission hardship classification . The Green ...
Article > Press release 
GCF joins UN bodies to help entrepreneurs embrace climate technology
... bodies, the Technology Executive Committee ( TEC ) of the UNFCCC and the Climate Technology Centre and Network ( CTCN ), in a dialogue of experts on Wednesday titled "Boosting climate technology incubators and accelerators ... including through an event webcast, at the UNFCCC website . Germany Bonn GCF joins UN bodies to help ...
Article > Press release Germany 
GCF ensures Indigenous Peoples play a key role in climate action
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) celebrates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on 9 August. As fears rise over climate change melting ... to a selected mountainous area, and then covering the site with mud, ash and charcoal before closing it off with ...
Article > Press release 
Project Preparation for Community-Based Interventions for Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change in Northern Pacific Small Island Vulnerable States (SIDS)
... change adaptation purposes. Additionally, there is little sharing of knowledge among local communities, states and countries managing ... and will co-finance project development alongside the PPF service. Climate Ready has committed approximately $30,000 ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries MCT
Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) for Reducing Community Vulnerability to Climate Change in Northern Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
... change adaptation purposes. Additionally, there is little sharing of knowledge among local communities, states and countries managing ... and will co-finance project development alongside the PPF service. Climate Ready has committed approximately $30,000 ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries MCT
Preparing for public and private investment in sustainable green infrastructure, green open spaces and urban agriculture for adaptation and mitigation to climate change in urban and peri-urban communities in Eswatini
... The country experiences natural hazards, such as violent storms and persistence drought, which is further exacerbating the country’s existing challenges of food insecurity, ability to attain development ... of knowledge and guidelines on advisory and extension services; Absence of an updated policy environment and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Eswatini FAO
FP012 - Africa Hydromet Program – Strengthening Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mali Country Project
... the adaptive capacity and climate resilience of vulnerable communities in Mali by developing hydro-meteorological weather warning services to support adaptation planning. Mali experiences ... rain-fed agriculture, and about 5.3 million people are directly exposed to drought or flooding. Early ...
Project > Public sector Mali WorldBank 
FP279 - Enhancing Climate Resilience in Flood-Prone Areas in Northwestern South Sudan (ECRF)
... and humanitarian crises, ranking among the most fragile states globally. The north-western states, especially ... capacity is weak, access to climate information and services is limited, and communities lack the resources to ... improving climate services, and supporting community-led adaptation and livelihoods. It adopts a comprehensive, ...
Project > Public sector South Sudan WFP 
SAP018 - Enhancing Climate Information Systems for Resilient Development in Liberia (Liberia CIS)
... to climate change through: improved hydrometeorological service generation and provision, in line with WMO ... and Hydrological Service, improved risk knowledge and awareness of both Government institutions and ... hazards through an enabling environment, appropriate legislation, agency coordination as well as implementing an ...
Project > Public sector Liberia AfDB 
SAP048 - Strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities within high climatic and disaster risk areas in Togo.
... floods. The frequency and intensity of these climate challenges are expected to rise. This project—the first single-country project in Togo in the GCF portfolio—aims to ... (CIEWS) through enhanced people-centred climate information services, impact-based multi-hazard early warning systems, ...
Project > Public sector Togo BOAD 
Tackling adversity with diversity key to climate response, says GCF workshop participant
... is increasingly necessary in Argentina, following a prevalence of extreme weather events during the past few years ... gathered at the workshop to inform its collaboration with Accredited Entities, the Fund’s instigators of action, to ... management in local communities, the valuing of ecosystem services to avoid deforestation, and applying organic ...
Article > Press release Argentina UCAR 
R2RP Readiness
... countries in the region face the threat of hurricanes. In less than 12 hours, a small island in the Caribbean can lose ... vulnerability of Barbados’ housing stock and essential services (e.g. the electrical grid) to extreme wind events ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Barbados
Increasing resilience through Nature based Solutions in Latin American cities (Nature4Cities Latam)
... centres. Climate change makes regional cities more vulnerable: according to the Climate Change Vulnerability Index, 48% ... ensuring the delivery of sustainable infrastructure services and contributing to flexible planning in line with ... NbS. The project will support 4 LAC countries through examples in 6 selected secondary cities to identify and address ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries UNEP
Strengthening Lesotho’s capacity to advance the National Adaptation Planning process
The Kingdom of Lesotho is a small, land-locked country in southern Africa ... hindering national development, disrupting critical public services and detrimentally affecting rural livelihoods. The ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Lesotho UNEP
National Framework for Leapfrogging to Energy- Efficient and Climate Friendly Air Conditioners and Refrigerators in The Gambia
Despite the rising electricity demand, only 56% of The Gambian population has access to electricity as of 20171. The Gambia’s electricity ... to the productivity and life of people and is an essential service in the health sector and a key aspect of food ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Gambia UNEP
Re-Gain: Scaling solutions for food loss in Africa
... food could be used to feed approximately 1.6 billion people every year3 . In addition, food loss has a high carbon ... and associated market and health risks. Food losses lead to less food being available per unit per person. This is ... used/preserved for carbon sequestration and other ecosystem services (mitigation) Improved food security and increased ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries
Agreement between the Republic of Korea and the Green Climate Fund concerning the Headquarters of the Green Climate Fund
... of this Headquarters Agreement are to set out the legal status of the Fund and of the persons associated with ... a manner consistent with the Governing Instrument, to enable the Fund to fully discharge its responsibilities. The parties acknowledge that they will exercise their rights and obligations ...
Document > Agreement
FP231 - Accelerating Solar Action Program (ASAP)
The Accelerating Solar Action Programme (ASAP) supports Ghana’s ... Ghana's installed solar capacity currently represents less than one per cent of the energy mix. ASAP's ... and the Energy Commission of Ghana. Better access to credit, robust demand from borrowers, decreased cost of ...
Project > Private sector Ghana Ecobank 
FP271 - India Green Finance Facility (IGFF)
... significant progress and achieved rapid growth in renewable energy capacity. The country risks remaining locked into ... Key activities include providing DFIs with concessional credit lines for on-lending to public and private sector ... there will be a focus on ensuring climate finance principles and gender-responsive approaches are embedded into ...
Project > Public sector India ADB 
FP284 - Amazonia Viva Program
... global climate regulator. It is home to 47 million people, including 2.2 million Indigenous Peoples. The region is threatened by rising temperatures, ... measures to overcome gender-specific obstacles in access to credit. FP284 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Brazil ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries WorldBank 
FP292 - Scaling climate-smart solutions for hardest-to-reach MSMEs and farmers in Kenya (CST Facility)
... need. The project aims to establish and demonstrate a scalable, de-risked local currency lending facility enabling Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), serving as both Accredited Entity and Executing Entity, to sustainably expand ... the programme seeks to overcome structural financial and credit risk barriers that currently prevent lending to ...
Project > Private sector Kenya KCB 
FP293 - Food Securities Fund Accountable Cocoa and Coffee Tranche (FSF ACCT)
... finance remains structurally underprovided, as commercial lenders rarely extend unsecured credit in rural emerging markets, while cooperatives and ... leaving a persistent gap. The FSF ACCT programme scales sustainability-linked working capital and technical ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries Clarmondial 
FP301 - Responsible Commodities Facility - Deforestation and Conversion Free: Finance for soy production in the Cerrado, Brazil (RCF-DCF Project)
... half of the Cerrado’s native vegetation has already been cleared, leading to loss of biodiversity, degraded water ... to mobilise larger pools of capital. Through customised credit lines, farmers will be enabled to forgo converting ... attempt to use a scalable payment-for-ecosystem-services model for farmers in a region facing acute ...
Project > Private sector Brazil SIM 