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FP185 - Climate Change: The New Evolutionary Challenge for the Galapagos
... Extreme weather events, warming lands and ocean, and sea level rise threaten the archipelago’s farming and fishing ... and tourism sectors. To help establish a sustainable and self-sufficient island system, this project aims to ... and de-risk investments for decentralised renewable energy sources, reducing overall energy dependence on imported ...
Project > Public sector Ecuador 
FP058 - Responding to the increasing risk of drought: building gender-responsive resilience of the most vulnerable communities
... water supplies for year-round drinking water and small-scale irrigation to address risks of drought and other climate ... be introducing solar-powered water pumping and small-scale irrigation, the rehabilitation and management of degraded lands around the water sources, and creating an enabling environment by raising ...
Project > Public sector Ethiopia 
FP067 - Building climate resilience of vulnerable and food insecure communities through capacity strengthening and livelihood diversification in mountainous regions of Tajikistan
Building the adaptive capacity of vulnerable communities in Tajikistan affected by food insecurity. ... information to plan their agricultural production while they rely heavily on climate-sensitive sources of income. This initiative will introduce adaption ...
Project > Public sector Tajikistan 
SAP025 - Adaptation of agricultural production systems in Coastal Areas of Northwest Guinea-Bissau
... in the form of seawater intrusion that results from sea level rise, tidal surges, and other adverse weather ... severe threat on the country’s mangroves which is a major source of livelihood (mangrove rice) in addition to ... of livelihoods and food security of the most vulnerable people in Northwest and Northcentral coastal regions of ...
Project > Public sector Guinea-Bissau 
Mitigation
The challenge Global emissions must be cut by 45 per cent by 2030 ... end-use technologies in place are only capable of achieving less than half of the emissions reductions needed. Climate ... of carbon sinks. We can do this by transitioning to cleaner sources of energy such as solar and wind, increasing the ...
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Entity support for Honduras through UNEP
... of social and environmental safeguards frameworks applicable to current climate change projects and programs in ... Preparatory Support for Direct Access Entity on the accreditation gap assessment and action plan for CABEI and for ... country monitoring and reporting requirements, which in the future will inform a possible National Information System on ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Honduras
Readiness Support to Capacitate Rwanda’s Subnational Level Actors in Green Growth and Climate Resilience
... their functions and activities to inform sub-national level actors on green growth and climate resilience that ... development partners and stakeholders4, to serve as main source of climate data and information in Rwanda. The ... sector actions before approval and implementation. However, past joint sector reviews by the government has shown that ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Rwanda
Enhancing the resilience of health systems to climate change and emerging pandemics in the Republic of Marshall Islands
... (RMI), a small island developing state, is highly vulnerable to the health impacts of climate variability and change. ... percentage of the population using improved drinking-water sources (94.5%), the population using improved sanitation ... is still on-going as of November 2020, resulting in a bit less than 4000 Marshalese having got Dengue-like illnesses ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Marshall Islands
Preparation of Strategic Framework to Reduce Deforestation and Forest Degradation and enhance adaptive capacity in the Bahamas
... the last years, and it is expected to get worse in the future; for example, 80% of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas is within 1 meter ... hydrological records indicate sea level has risen over the past century by 0.3 m. Since 1992, hurricanes and tropical ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bahamas
Climate Resilient Systems for SADC Water Sector: SADC Hydrological Cycle Observation System (SADC-HYCOS IV Project)
... of a Funding Proposal for the proposed project titled: Climate Resilient Sytems for SADC Water Sector: SADC ... access to innovative blended finance and private sector sources such as pension funds, insurance, sovereign wealth ... guarantees, private equity and others. DBSA will be the Accredited Entity (AE) for the proposed project. Given the ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries
GCF ensures Indigenous Peoples play a key role in climate action
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) celebrates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous ... adaptive measure against climate change by improving the future supplies of water to nearby Pakistani villages. A GCF ... of Indigenous Peoples in GCF’s climate finance policies, passed away recently. He is dearly missed. GCF ensures ...
Article > Press release 
FP190 - Climate Investor Two
The water cycle is one of the most important parts of the global climate ... – when managed improperly untreated wastewater can be a source of carbon emissions; while coastal ecosystems can act as powerful ‘carbon ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries 
FP086 - Green Cities Facility
... and their often path-dependent development patterns. While this makes cities vulnerable to the impacts of climate ... efficient and reduce reliance on non-renewable energy sources, actively encourage waste reduction and management, ... Serbia North Macedonia Albania 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 111 169 216 263 338 551 552 553 570 571 877 937 988 Green Cities Facility ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries 
GCF’s first private sector conference boosts business role in climate finance
... the private sector to capitalise on business networks to unleash the trillions of dollars needed for climate finance. ... highlighted the urgent need to draw on the financial resources of private sector actors who manage more than USD 210 trillion but invest less than 5 percent in climate finance. He singled out the ...
Article > Press release 
Energy transition accelerates with GCF support
GCF releases USD 86.7 million for Kazakhstan project with EBRD, ... economy. Kazakhstan’s ambitious plans for a lower carbon future is based on an estimation by its government that when ... to 2040 as they become, for many countries, the least-cost source of new generation. The challenges will be ...
Article > Press release Egypt Kazakhstan 
Empowering farmers and protecting forests in Eastern Madagascar
... is facing the brunt of climate change. Extended droughts, lesser incidences of rainfall, and aggressive cyclones ... yields and incomes, smallholder farmers turn to alternative sources of revenue and food to survive. Madagascar’s rich ... Madagascar By Brylle James Galang Madagascar FP026 Empowering farmers and protecting forests in Eastern ...
Article > Story Madagascar 
Ocean20: A new self-funded marine resource management framework
... and fisheries management in Indonesia. The model, called Blue Halo S Initiative, is the first ever integrated ... S initiative, the economic benefits of sustainable marine resources development are reinvested in environmental ... for marine ecosystems in other regions of the world in the future, too.” Bali, Indonesia Ocean20: A new self-funded ...
Article > Press release 
GCF’s 2024-2027 Strategic Plan sets out greater ambitions and results for critical global climate action
... programming period 2020-2023 (GCF-1) and is undergoing replenishment for its next programming period (GCF-2), the ... of catalytic impact through its key assets – financial resources, partnerships, convening power, people and ... engaging Board members, developing countries, Accredited Entities, observers, and other Fund stakeholders in ...
Article > News update 
Climate-smart farming boosts forests and food security in Madagascar
... effectiveness of sustainable agricultural practices. Researchers surveyed more than 1,600 participating farmers to ... it takes much longer to see results like this. In the past, many of the farmers surveyed had resorted to cutting ... International. Edited by: Zeenia Dastur, GCF Madagascar FP026 Climate-smart farming boosts forests and food security in ...
Article > Story Madagascar 
Adaptation planning vital in helping countries weather change
... World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Extreme weather killed several hundred people, impacted the lives of millions, ... to take preventative action. Recognising this, during the past few years, adaptation has become recognised as equally ... plan and attract larger scale finance for more resilient futures by strengthening their own adaptation planning ...
Article > Press release 
FP271 - India Green Finance Facility (IGFF)
... energy supply heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Over the past decade, India has made significant progress and achieved rapid growth in renewable energy capacity. The country risks remaining locked into ... Key activities include providing DFIs with concessional credit lines for on-lending to public and private sector ...
Project > Public sector India 
FP284 - Amazonia Viva Program
... global climate regulator. It is home to 47 million people, including 2.2 million Indigenous Peoples. The region is ... limited infrastructure, and a high dependence on natural resources. This combination leaves Indigenous Peoples and ... measures to overcome gender-specific obstacles in access to credit. FP284 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Brazil ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries 
FP292 - Scaling climate-smart solutions for hardest-to-reach MSMEs and farmers in Kenya (CST Facility)
... need. The project aims to establish and demonstrate a scalable, de-risked local currency lending facility enabling Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), serving as both Accredited Entity and Executing Entity, to sustainably expand ... in Kenya, where approximately 90 per cent of programme resources will be directed. The programme is aligned with ...
Project > Private sector Kenya 
FP301 - Responsible Commodities Facility - Deforestation and Conversion Free: Finance for soy production in the Cerrado, Brazil (RCF-DCF Project)
... half of the Cerrado’s native vegetation has already been cleared, leading to loss of biodiversity, degraded water ... million impact fund alongside additional co-investment vehicles designed to mobilise larger pools of capital. Through customised credit lines, farmers will be enabled to forgo converting ...
Project > Private sector Brazil 
Strengthening ECOWAS institutional capacities and Member States' access to climate finance to support the implementation of the agriculture sectoral priorities of the ECOWAS Regional Climate Strategy
... Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau Mali Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo Strengthening ECOWAS institutional capacities and ... Member States' access to climate finance to support the implementation of the agriculture sectoral priorities of the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
Workshop forges direct links to country-led climate action
... today of the Empowering Direct Access workshop. During the past four days, almost a hundred participants from various ... have met at GCF HQ in Songdo, the Republic of Korea, to learn more about how the Fund works and to articulate the ... require. Direct Access Entities are special types of Accredited Entity – organisations which the Fund nominates ...
Article > Press release 
Accreditation
Overview Access to GCF resources is through entities accredited by the GCF Board ... designed to assess whether they are capable of strong financial management and of safeguarding funded ...
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Policy on ethics and conflicts of interest for the Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund Secretariat
Adopted by decision B.10/13 (c). Sets out the ethics and conflicts of interest policies for the Executive Director.
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Policy on ethics and conflicts of interest for Board-appointed officials
Adopted by decision B.13/27 (a). Sets out the ethics and conflicts of interest policies for the Board-appointed officials.
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Indigenous peoples policy
... to incorporating the circumstances of indigenous peoples into decision-making while working towards climate change mitigation and adaptation. ...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines