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Country commitments and ambitions
... ownership and a country-driven approach are core principles of GCF. One of our operational priorities is to ... Paris Agreement shows that countries are ready to work together in response. But the targets, priorities, and ... 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 ... follows the signing of a Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) between GCF and EBRD today. FAAs mark the last phase of legal ... 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
... 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 ... GCF for REDD+ activities that come under its Nationally Determined Contribution ( NDC ) as a signatory to the Paris ...
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 ... highlighted this vulnerability in his address to the meeting, stating: “Tajikistan is one of the most vulnerable ... 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 ... of Pacific Island representatives, led by President Waqa, met with GCF staff to learn more about climate finance ... 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
Uncertainty should 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 ...
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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 ... Instrument,” said Samoa’s Ambassador Aliioaiga Feturi Elisaia, representing Small Island Developing States ... the SAP will be targeted at Direct Access Entities. Both Accredited Entities (AEs), and National Designated Authorities ...
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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 the ... meeting focused on advancing the Initiative for Renewable Island Energy (IRIE), which was announced at the 22nd ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries 
GCF Regional workshop to help advance climate action in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
... and the different funding and support mechanisms available. Sessions are covering a range of topics instrumental to ... Designated Authorities (NDAs), the processes related to accreditation and the submission of funding proposals , as ... to learn about the role of the private sector, civil society and other stakeholders in supporting their climate ...
Article > Press release Georgia 
Tackling adversity with diversity key to climate response, says GCF workshop participant
... to a varied form of land use that includes a variety of different crops and livestock management, along with ... 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 ... their emissions, according to their individual National Determined Contributions (NDCs). REDD+ results-based finance ...
Article > Press release Indonesia 
Papua New Guinea zooms in on GCF at first national workshop
... 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 ... Counsellor Mr. Benedict David said. “With its population set to double to 20 million by 2050, the implications of ...
Article > Press release Papua New Guinea 
No objection letter template
... they are submitted to us by 30 June 2025 . Where feasible and non-disruptive, AEs are expected to engage with NDAs ... submitted to GCF must be accompanied by a no-objection letter (NOL) from the National Designated Authority ... 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 region to changing ... and climate change related issues. The Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) of Albania committed to reduce ... 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
... 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 developing country ...
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Strategic Plan
Overview The GCF’s Strategic Plans set out the Board’s long-term strategic vision for the ...
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GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference 2019
... Investment for Climate Conference ("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 ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the) 
GCF leadership dialogue in the margins of the 75th United Nations General Assembly
... for an inclusive, resilient recovery As the world grapples with the unprecedented humanitarian and economic ... by COVID-19, developing countries have been hit hardest while already facing the most extreme impacts of climate ... from developing and developed countries will come together, share ideas and collaborate to set developing ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
R2RP Readiness
... 160 km from the nearest landmass. Every year, between June and November, Barbados and the other countries in the region face the threat of hurricanes. In less than 12 hours, a small island in the Caribbean can lose ... GDP (e.g. Grenada in 2004 & Dominica in 2017) or become completely uninhabitable (Barbuda in 2017). While Barbados has ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Barbados
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 ... including the fragility of its ecosystems and low level of social-economic development. While the Government ... levels No comprehensive institutional framework in place yet for a coordinated and cross-sectoral approach to Climate ...
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 ... initiative provides a regional approach to enable a market for investments on adaptation, mitigation practices and ... 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% ... to the effects of climate change. This is of considerable concern due to the “key role of capitals in national ... of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) cities and metropolitan areas are centers of economic growth, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries UNEP
Increasing the ambition of the Nationally Determined Contributions and climate financing in the Central America
... El Salvador, Dominican Republic, and Guatemala in meeting their NDCs ambitions through strengthened national and ... 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
... are also being felt by the food and agriculture sector. While the supply of food has held up well to date, in many ... starting to disrupt the supply of agro-food products to markets and consumers, both within and across borders. The ... 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 Determined Contribution has as target to reduce absolute ... (GHG) emissions by 44.7% by 2030 compared to the emission level of 2014. The transport sector has the largest GHG ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Dominica
Developing a climate resilient health system in The Bahamas
... an active 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season (and beyond) while addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. Both COVID-19 and Hurricane Dorian have revealed the urgent need to strengthen the linkages and build ... health policy, 2) health workforce, 3) community/civil society engagement, 4) climate resilient health infrastructure, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bahamas CCCCC
Development of Guyana’s National Climate Finance Strategy, MRV System and Project Pipeline to Support NDC Implementation
... for increased climate finance in order to develop and implement projects to meet their national and international commitments with ... 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 ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Biennial Transparency Reports will be required from ... It is therefore important that action be taken to better understand interaction between institutions and to ...
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, ... State of Bolivia has presented its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) within the framework of the ... 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