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IIU, CABEI sign agreement to enhance cooperation
... to Prohibited Practices . The recently signed MoU complements the Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) with CABEI, which contains a clause requiring the Accredited Entity to provide the IIU with reasonable ...
Article > Press release 
Gender is central to GCF, states Executive Director at women and climate finance event
... the gender dimension to climate finance, examining challenges of financing women-centred climate actions, as well ... with UN Women. Executive Director Bamsey also shared examples from GCF's project portfolio with particular gender ...
Article > Press release France 
GCF signs agreement with Micronesia Conservation Trust to bolster Pacific resilience
... planet,” said Mr Kostka during the signing of an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA). MCT is one of GCF’s direct access Accredited Entities forging low-emission and climate resilient ... keen to support societies that are highly vulnerable, such as the Pacific islands where MCT is focusing its ...
Article > Press release Micronesia (Federated States of) 
GCF Board meets in Egypt to develop project portfolio, consider new accreditations
... will consider a number of funding proposals from its Accredited Entities. GCF currently has a project portfolio of ... amounting to over USD 2.2 billion of committed GCF resources. The Board will also consider a range of policy ... of Board meetings are live-streamed on the GCF website . Egypt Cairo GCF Board meets in Egypt to develop ...
Article > Press release Egypt 
GCF helps Vanuatu smooth climate finance path
... disbursed USD 296,000 to Vanuatu to increase this vulnerable island country’s capacity to access climate finance. ... Small Island Developing State is one of the most vulnerable countries to disasters which can be exacerbated by ...
Article > Press release Vanuatu 
Caribbean countries convene in Belize for GCF regional dialogue
... meeting to advance collaboration with the Fund and accelerate access to its resources. Organized in partnership with the Government of ... She encouraged developing countries and GCF Accredited Entities to bring projects and programmes to the ...
Article > Press release Belize 
Green Climate Fund Board meeting kicks off in Songdo
... GCF’s proposal approval process; the process for the selection of the Permanent Trustee; GCF’s accreditation framework and policy; and updates on Readiness ... organizations, National Designated Authorities (NDAs), Accredited Entities, and GCF Delivery Partners. The Board ...
Article > Press release 
Samoa grants Privileges and Immunities status to GCF
... Green Climate Fund to provide the organisation with Privileges and Immunities. The agreement was signed on the ... Secretariat, Mr Javier Manzanares said the granting of Privileges and Immunities is highly important for the effective ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), governments recommended that Parties to the UNFCCC ...
Article > Press release Samoa 
GCF approves first grants for National Adaptation Planning in Liberia and Nepal
... 2.2 million with UNDP acting as its delivery partner to implement its NAPs activities, whilst Nepal will receive a ... and Javier Manzanares, Executive Director a.i., at a high-level event convened by the President of COP22, H.E. ... the decision to expedite support for the formulation and implementation of National Adaptation Plans in June this year, ...
Article > Press release Liberia Nepal 
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 ...
Article > Press release 
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 ... following an extensive global recruitment process to select a new head of the Secretariat. Mr. Bamsey, an ... in international climate change, environment and sustainable development, both in the diplomatic service and academia. ...
Article > Press release 
Board to consider committing USD 788 million in project proposals and recruiting new ED at B.14 meeting
... 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 ... date, the Fund has mobilised more than USD 10 billion in resources and committed USD 424 million in projects and ... a permanent Executive Director is complete. Songdo Baton passes in GCF Secretariat Leadership ...
Article > Press release 
Request for Proposals: GCF Funding Modalities
... financial institutions that will undertake the design, implementation and management of strong, high-impact projects ... of USD 200 million for around 10 pilots, including at least four in LDCs, SIDS and 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 ... measure by early 2018. The policy is based upon the principles of maximizing access to information, subject only to ... 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
... tenure, Ms. Cheikhrouhou set in motion the Fund’s first resource mobilization process that resulted in more than USD 10 billion equivalent in pledges from 43 countries. Ahead of the adoption of the Paris ...
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 ...
Article > Press release 
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 ... calling for the Green Climate Fund to receive sufficient resources to support both adaptation efforts and clean ...
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 from developed countries, ... visit to the Republic of Korea today. Speaking at a roundtable on climate and green growth at Ehwa Women’s University, ... days of climate discussions in China. He noted Korea’s role in hosting the Green Climate Fund, identifying the ...
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 ... some of the USD 10 billion that have been raised as new resources for mitigation and adaptation investments to date. ... 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 ... On this occasion, Executive Director Héla Cheikhrouhou called for the Paris Agreement to ensure that the Financial ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is scaled up substantially and on an ongoing basis. ...
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 ... together high-level representatives from governments, GCF accredited entities, UN agencies, financial institutions, ... role of GCF in identifying key areas to mobilise action, resources, and investments to better serve the climate agenda ...
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 ... of Belize to the United Nations, Mr Mohamed Nasr, Minister Plenipotentiary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt, and Ms ...
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 ... the United Nations system. GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec and the Maldives Environment Minister Hussain ... 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 ... weather events, increase food security, inhibit the release of new diseases and generate employment. Learn more ...
Article > Story Colombia 
Where do we stand with NDCs: Enhancing action on climate change in 2020
... temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Through their decision 1/CP.21 (Paris, 2015), ... to prepare new/updated NDCs and communicate these to the UNFCCC secretariat by 2020. This represents a major ...
Event > Upcoming engagement 
GCF Programming Manual
... 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 
Introduction to Simplified Approval Process and the Private Sector
... participants with an understanding on how countries, GCF accredited entities and partners proposing private sector ... the Fiji Development Bank in Fiji. Participants will be able to ask questions, share their views, comments and ... Evaluation Unit (IEU), contribute to expanding the knowledge base of how SAP can more efficiently serve green ...
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 ... course of 3 days, participants will share best practices, lessons learned and experiences within their organizations. ...
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