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... from the coast. This means the country is highly vulnerable to climate effects such as cyclones, erosion, flash ... availability and cause saline intrusion from rising sea levels. This project will strengthen the national governance ... integrating climate change into the country’s new water code. This will include integrating climate information into ...

The project will increase resilience of smallholder farmers in Belize to climate change impacts that have ... Specifically, the project will develop climate-proof selected value chains (six vegetables, one fruit, and bee keeping) of smallholder farmers, ...

GCF joined the UNFCCC in the Korea Global Adaptation Week to build momentum ... Center for Climate Change (KACCC). GCF played an active role in a series of events throughout the Korea Global ... emerging good practice guidance and methodologies, for the design of adaptation planning processes that catalyse action ...

New Executive Director Yannick Glemarec has committed the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to reinforcing its support for adaptation in developing countries at the opening of a major conference in ... by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Korea Environment Institute (KEI), the Korea ...

The Regional dialogue of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean took place on 18-20 ... organisations, delegates from NDAs of LAC Governments and Accredited Entities. The meeting focused on engaging key ... network of indigenous specialists in climate finance (REIFC). The network, comprised of 17 indigenous leaders from ...

The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has selected Yannick Glemarec to be its new Executive Director. The Board made the merit-based selection decision at its 22nd meeting at ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and serves the Paris Agreement. The Executive ...

To support the first GCF formal replenishment, the Fund appointed Johannes F. Linn, a renowned development economist and practitioner, as a global facilitator to help oversee and streamline the replenishment process. Mr. Linn is currently serving as a ...

... Fund signed a funding agreement with Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) today to make communities in northern ... (FAA) with KfW, Germany’s development bank and a GCF Accredited Entity, allows GCF to begin transferring grant ... Simiyu region, where rainfall has become more unpredictable, while droughts and floods have become more frequent. ...

Due to Burkina Faso’s dependence on fossil fuels, the country has one of the highest electricity tariff rates in West Africa. Moreover, only 3 ... Electrification Project is one such investment that welcomes private sector participation. Aptly named Yeleen – it ...

A recently signed implementation agreement opens up Green Climate Fund (GCF) ... of Namibian farmers in GCF’s first project approved under its Simplified Approval Process (SAP). Namibian Prime ... has approved four SAP projects, amid a strong pipeline of future SAPs. “It is great to see the hard work with local ...

... Katowice will try to give an overview of what the GCF delegation is up to on any given day. The Fund takes its ... level, the gathering of all the parties to the UNFCCC in one place for two weeks gives a great opportunity to ... operations. Bilateral meetings with developing countries, Accredited Entities, and other partners are being held to ...

... and the Least Developed Countries' constituency under the UNFCCC, held the Structured Dialogue with Least Developed ... that we will continue to work hard to become in a near future, a financing partner for all 47 countries in the ... Designated Authorities (NDAs) and Focal Points (FPs), Accredited Entities (AEs) and other stakeholders. They had an ...

... development. Whilst the last Board meeting proved challenging, we are hopeful that the next meeting in Bahrain ... of new project proposals, the Board will also discuss the accreditation of new project partners, as well as proposals to ... the new low-carbon and climate-resilient markets of the future. As a “country driven” organisation, attuned to ...

The Green Climate Fund signed an Accreditation Master Agreement today with the Prime Minister ... for the country’s Department of Environment. The milestone unlocks opportunities for the continued ... the importance of climate finance in safeguarding for future disasters. “GCF is supporting the efforts of SIDS - ...

... land-based pathways of climate action. The signing of the Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) in the margins of the ... GCF to finance IFAD climate projects that empower rural people in developing countries. AMAs act as legal frameworks ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with the goal of supporting global efforts to respond ...

... Dialogue for the Pacific begins today in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. The meeting takes place from ... representatives of National Designated Authorities, Accredited Entities, Delivery Partners, civil society ... of countries in the region to respond to the climate challenge. Projects in the region range from ensuring ...

The Green Climate Fund, the African Development Bank and Africa50 investment fund will ... resources about opportunities to make solar power available throughout the Sahel region, transforming African deserts into new sources of renewable energy. The Desert to Power programme, initiated by the ...

... Africa’s industrialisation in climate-sensitive ways while attending the African Development Bank’s annual meeting which opens today. The ... adaptation. AfDB is a key GCF partner. Approved as a GCF Accredited Entity in March 2016, AfDB is working on a series ...

The challenge of maintaining solid economic growth in Asia through climate resilient development will be a major feature of the Green Climate ... Designated Authorities ( NDAs ) and Focal Points, Accredited Entities , Readiness delivery partners, private ...

... Designated Authorities ( NDAs ) and Focal Points, Accredited Entities , Readiness delivery partners, private ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) will also host side events during the Dialogue ... Results of the Bamako event will inform and shape GCF’s future collaboration with African countries on how best to ...

... place on Wednesday, 14 March, in Bonn to discuss how to accelerate support for entrepreneurs in developing countries who ... speakers and more information about the event at the UNFCCC website . Germany Songdo Dialogue to Boost Climate Technology ...

... four-day event brings together about 150 GCF Partners to learn more about how to access the Fund's resources. They ... National Designated Authorities (NDAs) and Focal Points, Accredited Entities, Readiness delivery partners, private ... Latin America to withstand such wide-ranging disasters in future. Common with all GCF Structured Dialogues, the Bogota ...

... and of how public climate funds can successfully leverage private capital. The One Planet Summit takes place ... Fund (GCF) was created as an operating entity of the UNFCCC with the goal of supporting global efforts to respond ... that GCF funded activities are country-owned, and the Accredited Entities that carry out projects on the ground. The ...

Innovation in developing countries highlighted by moves to renewable energy in China and India raises hopes for a low-emissions future, according to Javier Manzanares, Green Climate Fund ...

The Green Climate Fund is helping to level the playing field of climate action with the launch today of its first gender guide to climate finance. GCF Executive Director Howard ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) set up the Fund in 2010. “The release of the manual ...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) will launch a guide on Tuesday strengthening the central role of gender consideration in its allocation of climate ... girls, men and boys from socially excluded and vulnerable communities at all stages of the climate finance project ...

... Climate Fund forum which wound up today in Tonga has added another building block to the Pacific region’s efforts ... Dialogue with the Pacific, a region particularly vulnerable to climate change, brought together a range of key GCF ... projects. Other key GCF partners attending included accredited entities, readiness delivery partners, and ...

... its national climate adaptation planning process. The release of funds to the West African country represents ... GCF’s first transfer of adaptation resources to a least developed country (LDC). Liberia will use the GCF funds to ... planning aims to enable policies, strategies, programmes and investment that reduces a country’s vulnerability ...

... said Andrej Lakic, with Montenegro’s Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism Department for International ... from 13 countries, representatives from eight GCF Accredited Entities, 10 National Designated Entities of the ...

Indonesia can learn from Mongolia’s placement of women-led small ... by women, we would benefit from bolstering their ability to deal with climate change,” said Alke Haesra, with PT ... buses in Indonesia. Stephanie Kwan, GCF’s Senior Accredited Entities Specialist, told workshop participants ...