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... entrepreneurship of businesses in tackling the climate challenge, and comes on the heels of a  seminal UN report ... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will set the scene in the morning by quantifying the urgency of climate action evidenced by the release on Monday of the IPCC report Global Warming of 1.5°C. ...

... cooling. The webinar presented how countries can scale up efforts on energy-efficient and climate friendly ... and Adaptation of the GCF. The Cool Coalition Secretariat, the International Energy Agency (IEA), United For ... aim to assist National Designated Authorities (NDAs) and Accredited Entities (AEs) in the development of ...

... they submit their expression of interest to the Secretariat by 28 February 2021. Countries may choose one option ... the three expected outputs proposed in the following table. The budget allocation to the option(s) chosen by countries will be ...

... Investment for Climate Conference opens today to accelerate the unlocking of untapped business finances to ... three-day, virtual conference brings global and national leaders together with leading business executives to generate new ...

... first Australia-based global private sector partner. The Accreditation Master Agreement with Macquarie Alternative Assets Management Limited (MAAML) allows GCF to draw on the ... operates in 31 markets around the world and is a global leader in green finance and infrastructure. The agreement ...

The webinar seeks to provide detailed guidance regarding the Project Preparation Facility ... been integrated in  the updated PPF Guidelines now available online .  The webinar programme will cover the following ...

The impacts of a drastically warming planet are already being felt in Mongolia, ... and livestock production are facing mounting challenges due to a declining rate of precipitation coupled ... livestock policy.  FP141 Mongolia 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 264 452 656 827 Improving Adaptive Capacity and Risk ...

... has reduced 18.73 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂eq) in emissions through reducing ... Based Payments will be reinvested to deepen implementation of Argentina’s ambitious National Action ...

... projected to experience a further temperature increase of between 0.5 and 2.0 °C from 2011 to 2040. This alarming ... and will build the resilience of the most vulnerable farmers in Northeast Brazil, by transforming family ... youth, and traditional communities to scale up other tested adaptation and mitigation measures in ...

... has reduced 14.08 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂eq) in emissions, through reducing ... Costa Rica’s Forestry Law, to be complemented by the country’s longstanding Payments for ... national programme.   FP144 Costa Rica 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 266 419 509 682 762 Costa Rica REDD-plus Results-Based ...

Guatemala is one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change in Latin ... of droughts and floods has increased dramatically, leading to significant economic losses in the country.  ... to diversify agricultural crop productivity, while the setting up of 13 hydro-meteorological ...

... rates of any region in the country due to unsustainable management of ecosystems, demographic pressure, and a ... Nicaragua, the CR, and to channel investments into sustainable land-use management and forest management. It supports ... activities will reinforce interventions consisting of targeted investments for sustainable landscape restoration and ...

#GCFB28 Opening of the meeting Adoption of the agenda and organization of work ... of the independent Technical Advisory Panel Updated accreditation framework Performance review of the GCF for the ... Consideration of funding proposals Consideration of accreditation proposals Revised Policy on Sexual Exploitation, ...

The GCF Board begins a four-day meeting today with USD 1.2 billion for proposed climate ... Ten of the 15 proposals wholly or partly target the least developed countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing ... include the results management framework, the updated accreditation framework, and evaluations by the Independent ...

... to host the International Financial Institutions (IFI) Knowledge Management Community of Practice (COP) Spring Meeting, to be held on 21-22 April 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EST / ... at the 2020 Annual International Financial Institutions Knowledge Management COP Annual Workshop, held on 2-4 December ...

... extreme weather events are more frequent. This poses challenges to livestock production and managing the country’s vast pasturelands, which are already fragile due to decades of unsustainable herding practices. This project addresses Mongolia’s ...

... private and public sectors, the programme will support at least 20 high-impact, low-emission sub-projects in the region. FP156 Cambodia Indonesia Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) Malaysia Philippines (the) 1 ...

... affected by tropical storms and it is highly vulnerable to extreme weather events. Due to its long coastline, 57 ... lives in coastal municipalities which are highly vulnerable to flooding caused by intense storms and rising sea ... of over 1.3 million vulnerable people living in the target coastal communities by employing an ecosystem-based ...

While raising livestock forms the cultural and economic ... into wildlife areas to search for water and fodder. This leads to increasing contact between domestic cattle and wild buffalo with infectious ...

Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles, located in the Southwest Indian Ocean region, are highly vulnerable to climate change. Tropical cyclones are the most ... 1 2 438 Building Regional Resilience through Strengthened Meteorological, Hydrological and Climate Services in the ...

The Sahel region of Western Africa is exceptionally vulnerable to climate change with worsening impacts of rising ... the region. The programme will build, strengthen and scale up the resilience and adaptive capacities of smallholder ... Mali Mauritania Niger (the) Senegal Gambia 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 626 The Africa Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme: ...

... projected to rise by approximately 2.4°C to 4.7°C – setting a major challenge for India. This programme is India’s first of its ... across the energy value chain. This includes renewable energy generation, energy efficient technologies, low ...

... of Micronesia (FSM) is one of the most highly vulnerable Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific. ... security - primarily because of crop loss, degraded arable land, price/supply shocks, and forced migration of ... to focus on increasing the resilience of FSM's most vulnerable communities to climate change-induced food insecurity. ...

Timor-Leste suffers from high rates of deforestation and forest degradation. This is coupled with increased vulnerability to climate impacts that pose a significant challenge to vulnerable communities' livelihoods. This project ...

Mexico’s mountain ranges, valleys and coastal plains form a set of 757 watersheds. Increased vulnerability to landslides, ... In the lower part of these basins, important human settlements have become significantly exposed to the effects of ...

... change impacts the livelihoods and well-being of societies. Since 2015, GCF has appraised and financed a wide ... but it appears that many Direct Access Entities remain unclear as to the GCF requirements for financing. The ... Project submissions must align with GCF’s mandate to tackle the most serious climate adaptation and mitigation ...

... That was the message from GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec, speaking to the Leaders' Summit on Climate hosted by President Biden. GCF ... its USD 30 billion climate portfolio, split equally between adaptation and mitigation projects. ‘Plain vanilla ...

#GCFB29 Opening of the meeting Adoption of the agenda and organization of work ... the activities of the Secretariat Mapping eligibility and selection criteria (for information) Reports from Board ... tracking tool Consideration of funding proposals Updated accreditation framework, including the project-specific ...

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process as a way to facilitate adaptation planning in least developed countries (LDCs) and other developing ... countries. Of the remaining 51 eligible countries that are yet to submit an adaptation planning proposal, eight are the ...

... the portfolio imbalance and intends to raise the profile of DAEs in the Pacific by providing support to entities ... event will provide a series of informative and interactive plenary and working group sessions that will: Provide ... and lessons learned from direct and international accredited entities in programming in the Pacific; Provide ...