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Visit the GCF Dome in Marrakech!
... Partners and Friends, If you are at COP 22 in Marrakech, please come and visit the ‘GCF Dome’ at the conference ... Green Climate Fund is at the twenty-second session of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties in Morocco, and is ... GCF’s activities at COP 22 are being posted on the GCF website and Twitter (@GCF_News). Come by and see us at the GCF ...
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GCF Board selects Howard Bamsey as Executive Director of the Secretariat
The Board of the Green Climate Fund has selected Mr. Howard Bamsey as the Executive Director of the Fund’s Secretariat. The decision was taken by consensus during the Board’s ... following an extensive global recruitment process to select a new head of the Secretariat. Mr. Bamsey, an ...
Article > Press release 
Board to consider committing USD 788 million in project proposals and recruiting new ED at B.14 meeting
... the next three days, the 24 members of the Board will consider ten new project proposals. The project and programme ... totaling USD 787.8 million. The Board will also work to select a new Executive Director of the GCF Secretariat. The ... to the Acumen Fund, one of the 33 entities that have been accredited to GCF to date. This was a capital contribution to ...
Article > Press release 
Baton passes in GCF Secretariat Leadership
... by the GCF Board at its June meeting and takes up the role following the conclusion of the term of the current ... Hela Cheikhrouhou. The Green Climate Fund was established under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with the goal of supporting climate resilient and low ...
Article > Press release 
Request for Proposals: GCF Funding Modalities
... the GCF Board endorsed a Request for Proposals (RFP) to identify qualified financial institutions that will undertake the design, implementation and management of strong, high-impact projects ... African States. Countries are invited to work with both accredited direct access entities and potential entities to ...
Article > Press release 
New web features bring partners and projects in focus
... and project size. A new Project section provides a detailed overview of all projects approved by the GCF Board to ... projects and programes that the Board will approve in the future. Looking to the Fund’s partners, a new section for Accredited Entities provides a one-stop overview of the public ...
Article > Press release 
GCF introduces live web-streaming of Board meetings
... Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board will be live web-cast to enable the broader GCF stakeholder community to follow the deliberations of ... The link to the web-cast will be available on the GCF website ahead of the meeting and communicated through a ...
Article > Press release 
Héla Cheikhrouhou to leave GCF after her three years as Executive Director
... process that resulted in more than USD 10 billion equivalent in pledges from 43 countries. Ahead of the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement in December 2015, she worked with the GCF Board to secure the ... in funding for its first round of eight projects and programmes, signalling the end of the Fund’s launch phase and ...
Article > Press release 
COP 21 Side Event – The Green Climate Fund: ‘Looking Beyond Paris’
... are high. The Fund is charged with playing a decisive role in channeling and catalysing climate finance, thereby supporting the achievement of UNFCCC’s climate change objectives. So far, the Fund has ... development? GCF presents this side event to discuss the future direction of the Fund after the Paris Conference of ...
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President of Senegal calls for adequate resources for GCF
His Excellency Macky Sall, President of Senegal, today used his address to the plenary of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties to highlight the importance ...
Article > Press release Senegal 
Pres. Hollande calls for rich countries to step up efforts on climate finance during Korea visit
French President Francois Hollande has called for more climate finance ... visit to the Republic of Korea today. Speaking at a roundtable on climate and green growth at Ehwa Women’s University, ...
Article > Press release France Republic of Korea (the) 
Zambia Board meeting opens with funding proposals on the table
The eleventh meeting of the Green Climate Fund Board has opened ... the high expectations on the Fund from partners and stakeholders around the world. Nearly 300 participants are gathered ... Paris COP later this month. "We need to make the Fund a viable Partner to all countries, so that we can support the ...
Article > Press release Zambia 
Participation of the GCF Executive Director in the Climate Finance Ministerial meeting, Lima
... Green Climate Fund Executive Director addressed the High-Level Climate Finance Ministerial meeting at the 2015 Annual ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is scaled up substantially and on an ongoing basis. GCF’s Executive Director underscored the need for funding through the Financial ...
Article > Press release 
Strengthening synergies: the role of the Green Climate Fund in implementing the Paris Agreement and the 2030 agenda
... Climate Fund will be hosting an event on the Fund’s role in supporting the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the operationalisation of developing countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions ... together high-level representatives from governments, GCF accredited entities, UN agencies, financial institutions, ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF United States 
GCF aims to support increased climate ambition at climate negotiations
GCF is holding a side event during the UNFCCC climate talks on Friday to discuss how an ambitious replenishment of GCF will support increased commitments in the ...
Article > Press release Germany 
The Maldives and GCF strengthen legal partnership
... with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) granting the Fund privileges and immunities in line with those of other ... to other international organisations, such as multilateral development banks. Mr Glemarec welcomed the signing, noting ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), governments recommended that Parties to the UNFCCC ...
Article > Press release Maldives 
On World Environment Day, women are bringing new life to Colombia’s wetlands
Local women are leading the restoration of north Colombian wetlands to reverse degradation from decades of unsustainable farming. Bringing life back to this vital ecosystem in ...
Article > Story Colombia 
Where do we stand with NDCs: Enhancing action on climate change in 2020
Decision 1/CMA.2 (Madrid, 2019) re-emphasized with serious ... temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature ... to prepare new/updated NDCs and communicate these to the UNFCCC secretariat by 2020. This represents a major ...
Event > Upcoming engagement 
GCF Programming Manual
... the GCF Programming Manual , the webinar will allow stakeholders to have an in-depth overview and seek clarifications on ... origination, development, appraisal, approval and implementation. The GCF Programming Manual provides an overview ... including national designated authorities and accredited entities. It also offers guidance on how to prepare ...
Event > Webinar 
International Financial Institutions Knowledge Management Workshop
The Green Climate Fund (GCF)’s Head of Knowledge and Change Management, George Zedginidze, is the 2020 ... for the International Financial Institutions Knowledge Management Community of Practice. As such, GCF is ... experts working in the field of international financial development, with participants joining from organizations ...
Event > Webinar 
Introductory webinar on the GCF Sectoral Guide: Cities, Buildings and Urban Systems
In connection with the GCF Sectoral Guides Consultation launched on 9 November 2020, this webinar ... needs and evidence-based programming experiences in the relevant sector. It also aims to identify opportunities for ... in line with its investment criteria during its first replenishment period 2020-2023. The draft guide was developed ...
Event > Webinar 
Transformational Climate Financing for the Caribbean Regional Engagement
... as a virtual event on 1-5 March 2021. This event will provide a platform for engagement with National Designated Authorities, Accredited Entities, Delivery Partners and other relevant GCF Stakeholders to improve access to and ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Locally-led climate action with the GCF: the Enhancing Direct Access (EDA) Pilot
... by the International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) as part of the Gobeshona Global ... This session aims to engage partners involved in locally led climate action in an open discussion about the GCF’s ... insights and practical experience to help shape the future of the GCF’s EDA pilot. The programme includes a ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Introductory Webinar on GCF Country Programme Guidance
... recently published GCF Country Programme Guidance. National Designated Authorities, Accredited Entities and other stakeholders are invited to ... Session 1: 24 February 2021, 08.00 a.m. KST Applicable for participants based in Pacific, LAC countries ...
Event > Webinar 
B.29 Board meeting this week: USD 500 million in climate finance under consideration
... The agenda for this meeting, the second of the year, includes the consideration of new Funding Proposals. The project ... matters including the approval of new applicants to be accredited entities - the partners who undertake GCF projects. ... matters on the agenda, including an updated framework for accreditation, the integrated results management framework, ...
Article > Press release 
First Hydromet Gap Report calls for scaled-up action
... effective weather and climate services. It presents the challenges of the complex global and local undertaking required and proposes priority actions to scale up ...
Article > News update 
GCF Workshop on REDD+ Results-based Payments
... take place in Seoul, South Korea on 4 May 2022. Through decision B.18/07 in 2017, the Green Climate Fund Board ... the funds were exhausted in 2020, two years ahead of schedule. Based on recommendations by GCF Board members, ... of the RFP into a second phase. The GCF Secretariat compiled a range of inputs, resulting in a zero-draft set of ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
GCF Technical Programming Dialogue with the Caribbean
... Programming Dialogue will bring together National Designated Authorities, Direct Access Entities, and other ... to better understand what is meant by climate rationale and thereby enhance the quality of their projects and ... necessary support for National Designated Authorities and Accredited Entities in ensuring their projects and programmes ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Introductory webinar on the draft GCF Sectoral Guide: Energy Efficiency
In connection with the GCF Sectoral Guides Consultation launched on 6 May 2022, this webinar will ... needs and evidence-based programming experiences in the relevant sector. It also aims to identify opportunities for ... in line with its investment criteria during its first replenishment period 2020-2023. The draft guide was developed ...
Event > Webinar 
Introductory webinar on the draft GCF Sectoral Guide: Climate Information & Early Warning Systems
In connection with the GCF Sectoral Guides Consultation launched on 6 May 2022, this webinar will ... needs and evidence-based programming experiences in the relevant sector. It also aims to identify opportunities for ... in line with its investment criteria during its first replenishment period 2020-2023. The draft guide was developed ...
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