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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) ... private sector investment and ensure providing water for domestic, municipal, and industrial purposes. Donors, ...
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 ... and security. From altered weather patterns to soil degradation, biodiversity loss, and an increase in pests and ... technologies: seeding a climate resilient and food-secure future ...
Article > Story Multiple countries 
Innovating agriculture through the power of nature and tech
... growth in crop production and an expansion in overall land devoted to agriculture over the past few decades. But this Latin American nation of rich and fertile land faces growing environmental and climate change ... strategies and operations, and being better prepared for future challenges.” Mili Romano, Co-Founder and CEO of ...
Article > Story GIZ 
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 ... launched its Strategic Framework and Country Programme (SFCP), Readiness Needs Assessment, and Standard Operating ... and we are trying our best to ensure our survival in the future.” GCF’s Readiness Programme: helping countries ...
Article > News update Niue SPREP 
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 some of the ... the Mangroves for Climate Project, she is now able to see a future where the Mangroves thrive and the crabs return, and ...
Article > Story Ecuador 
EBRD and Green Climate Fund join forces to support major renewable energy project in Egypt
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are ... 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 ...
Article > Press release Egypt EBRD 
GCF's first REDD+ results-based payment boosts financial incentive to protect forests
The Green Climate Fund's recent decision to pay Brazil USD 96.5 million for keeping Amazon ... 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 ...
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 ... ambition for climate change not to put in danger the future of our planet." As highlighted in an OECD study ... 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 ... countries have submitted to the Fund to be considered for future funding approval. Emphasising the urgency of climate ... 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 our daily lives. ...
Article > Press release 
GCF launches Simplified Approvals Process for faster, simpler approval of small-scale projects
... and simplifies applications for certain small-scale projects of up to USD 10 million in GCF funding, and is ... he said at ‘ Direct Access Day ’ held at the 23rd UNFCCC Conference of the Parties in Bonn where the ... the SAP will be targeted at Direct Access Entities. Both Accredited Entities (AEs), and National Designated Authorities ...
Article > Press release 
GCF talks renewable energy with Alliance of Small Island States
The Green Climate Fund participated in the recent high-level meeting of 17 ministers of Energy and Environment that ... meeting focused on advancing the Initiative for Renewable Island Energy (IRIE), which was announced at the 22nd ... low emission renewable energy as part of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries 
Tackling adversity with diversity key to climate response, says GCF workshop participant
One of the best ways to deal with recurring droughts and floods in Argentina is to ... 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 ...
Article > Press release Argentina UCAR 
Deutsche Bank signs Accreditation Master Agreement with Green Climate Fund
Deutsche Bank today signed an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) with the Green Climate ... of the Green Climate Fund, Howard Bamsey. “We are pleased to sign this agreement in order to work with GCF to ... Green Climate Fund and its partners, and act as a prerequisite for the disbursement of GCF-approved climate projects. ...
Article > Press release DeutscheBank 
GCF scopes forest funding path after workshop
... ways to help countries keep their forests intact while also dealing with climate change following a ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Mr Velasco pointed to the key role REDD+ is now ...
Article > Press release Indonesia 
Papua New Guinea zooms in on GCF at first national workshop
... the Australian High Commission and GCF, the workshop provided a comprehensive overview of the Fund, including its ... investment framework and funding modalities. Sessions on accreditation and readiness support explained how developing ... can tap the Fund’s resources and build capacity to implement national climate change programmes. A panel ...
Article > Press release Papua New Guinea 
No objection letter template
Note: Transitionary measures until 30 June 2025 The decision to modify the no-objection procedure ( B.41/02 ) ... they are submitted to us by 30 June 2025 . Where feasible and non-disruptive, AEs are expected to engage with NDAs ... Facility (PPF) applications; access modalities: accredited entities or Project-specific Assessment Approach ...
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NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Albania through UNEP
Albania is considered the most vulnerable country in the South East Europe ... updated in the draft Third National Communication to the UNFCCC, to be submitted in 2016. The National Adaptation Plan ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Albania UNEP
Strengthening partnerships key to enhanced climate action, GCF leader tells largest gathering of developing country partners
... Fund (GCF) will “refine and sharpen” its support for developing nations’ climate ambition amid alarming signs ... threats of climate change, GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec informed GCF’s largest gathering yet of its partners today. “July 2019 was the warmest month on Earth since at least 1850,” he told 125 ...
Article > Press release 
GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference 2019
... ("GPIC") is a global marketplace and ecosystem where leading private sector actors including project sponsors, ... institutional investors, financial institutions, climate leaders, and the public sector come together to accelerate ... a roadmap leading to a zero-carbon and climate-resilient future. GCF and other actors in the climate finance space ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the) 
Reduce Sao Tome and Principe’s vulnerability to climate change impacts by strengthening the Country’s capacity to implement an integrated approach to adaptation planning
Sao Tome and Principe (STP) is one of the most vulnerable countries to the effects of Climate Change due to its ... of its ecosystems and low level of social-economic development. While the Government of STP, supported by key ... intervals and mainstream adaptation into existing and future polices, programmes and activities across levels and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Sao Tome and Principe UNEP
IGREENFIN project and GCF Umbrella Program for the Great Green Wall Initiative
... approved during the GCF Board #24 in 2019, will be scaled up and replicated in all African countries of the Great ... supporttheestablishmentofgreenlinesofcreditand the capacity building of both supply (banks) and ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries IFAD
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% of the capital cities in LAC show “extreme ... assessments, capacities and alternatives to financing schemes to accelerate adoption of these strategies. This will be ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries UNEP
Increasing the ambition of the Nationally Determined Contributions and climate financing in the Central America
... and regional coordination, enabling conditions and stakeholder engagement. The current ambition levels of national climate commitments are insufficient if ... Central America is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change. The region is already exposed ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries UNEP
Post COVID-19 Green Recovery for Food, Health, and Water Security strengthened by financial and technological innovations in Latin-American countries
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis that is already having ... are also being felt by the food and agriculture sector. While the supply of food has held up well to date, in many ... in the composition and – for some commodities – the level of demand. As the Economic Commission for Latin ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
Low Carbon Transport Dominica
The Commonwealth of Dominica is a SIDS vulnerable to climate change and heavily dependent on imported fossil fuels. The Nationally ... low carbon options creates a sustainable impact also for future endeavors in this area. Deliverables include a ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Dominica
Developing a climate resilient health system in The Bahamas
This readiness project is very timely, as the COVID-19 pandemic comes on the heels of Hurricane Dorian (the country’s worst ... an active 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season (and beyond) while addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. Both COVID-19 and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bahamas CCCCC
Development of Guyana’s National Climate Finance Strategy, MRV System and Project Pipeline to Support NDC Implementation
Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) was launched in 2009 and later ... for increased climate finance in order to develop and implement projects to meet their national and international ... Change (OECC) to improve the quality of Guyana’s UNFCCC reporting obligations. the improvement of National GHGs ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Guyana GGGI
Institutionalizing a common framework for climate finance MRV to enhance complementarity and coherence for climate action in CARICOM States
... in low carbon-climate resilient sectors, is a challenge which the Caribbean region is working assiduously to overcome. This challenge is evident across economic sectors. Climate change threats, ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Biennial Transparency Reports will be required from ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries CDB
Capacity Building to Monitor the Agriculture, Forest and Other Land-Use Sector in the National Determined Contributions, and enhancement of Climate Finance Access in the Plurinational State of Bolivia
The Plurinational State of Bolivia is highly vulnerable to climate change, generating and exacerbating droughts, ... of Bolivia's compliance towards the commitments to the UNFCCC. It is also in charge of the review of Bolivia's NDCs ... funding management. A list of national entities to be accredited to the GCF will also be formulated. Strategic ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bolivia (Plurinational State of) FAO