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Green Climate Fund and Meridiam unveil ambition and opportunities for impactful climate investments
... a joint Investor Forum in Paris in early October to identify opportunities to mobilise and scale up capital for more ambitious climate action in ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It serves the 2015 Paris Agreement, supporting the ...
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Green Climate Fund approves funding to Climate Asset Management to develop strategy for scaling regenerative practices at a landscape level in Sub-Saharan Africa
GCF grant to enable design of a blended finance and technical assistance ... landscapes in Sub-Saharan Africa Collaborating with six countries committed to scaling regenerative and agroecological ...
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Green Climate Fund to Support Development of Conservation International Initiative to Transform Water Security in Bogotá
The government of Colombia, Conservation International and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) announced support for the development of a project to transform water security in the ... project aims to reduce climate risk for half a million people from highly vulnerable rural communities and 250,000 ...
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Climate-smart farming boosts forests and food security in Madagascar
In Madagascar — one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries — a devastating drought , punctuated by intense cyclones , has ... International. Edited by: Zeenia Dastur, GCF Madagascar FP026 Climate-smart farming boosts forests and food security in ...
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Pioneering Barbados water project kick starts
... Barbados today announced that a groundbreaking project that leverages an innovative financing model to scale up climate action and simultaneously avoid ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It serves the 2015 Paris Agreement, supporting the ...
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Caribbean countries launch landmark platform to scale up climate investment
The creation of a platform to accelerate the mobilisation of finance for the boosting of resilience across the Caribbean region was announced today. The ... Resilience and Climate Action in the Caribbean aims to identify and deliver country-focused game-changing investment ...
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GCF convenes Regional Dialogue and Direct Access Entities Workshop in Latin America to accelerate climate action
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) concluded a week of climate action in Santo Domingo, hosting ... Direct Access Entities (DAEs), international Accredited Entities (AEs), civil society, and private sector ... Dialogue (15–17 September), where participants tackled some of Latin America’s most pressing climate finance ...
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GCF portfolio hits USD 20 billion for climate action, Board selects host countries for new regional offices
... support of the GCF’s reform agenda, the Board also selected host cities for regional offices, marking the first ... (National Designated Authorities) and project partners (Accredited Entities), ensure readiness support is aligned with ... about the projects can be accessed on the GCF website . The following 10 entities, six of which are DAEs, ...
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Private sector financing
... The climate crisis is too big, too serious and too urgent to rely on the resources of public institutions alone. ... 210 trillion in assets but only a very minor part of it is dedicated to climate investments. As more governments put in ... green growth ambitions, the private sector has an unparalleled opportunity to deliver the investment needed to spur ...
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Workshop forges direct links to country-led climate action
... 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 ... institutions nominated by the national governments of developing countries. The overarching purpose of the past ...
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Adaptation Fund, Green Climate Fund Convene First Community of Practice Meeting of Direct Access Entities to Climate Finance
In an effort to accelerate and enhance Direct Access to climate finance for developing countries that are vulnerable to climate change, ... joining forces to facilitate a meeting of more than 30 accredited implementing entities from both AF and GCF in ...
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Cook Islands get major boost in fight against climate change
... spread across 15 islands. The country is extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Rising sea levels, ... and meet its climate adaptation needs, including the accreditation of the country’s Ministry of Finance and ... and Prepatory Support programme by visiting our website, including learning more about what support is ...
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Unlocking capital for climate action
... (GPIC) has wrapped up in Incheon, Republic of Korea, with leading figures from the public and private sectors pledging ... 15-16 and heard from Chief Executives and business leaders, entrepreneurs, institutional funders, donors, ... GPIC, GPC convened representatives from countries, accredited entities, the public and private sectors and ...
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GCF and partners sign project agreements for four transformative climate projects
Four key agreements for climate projects (Funding Activity Agreement; FAA) ... GCF’s 34th Board meeting (17-20 October 2022) . They include climate resilience projects in the Maldives, Barbados, and Guinea-Bissau and GCF’s first at-scale private sector programme in the water sector. FP192 ...
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Human progress or biodiversity – A question of either…or?
... its climate investments are working for both vulnerable communities and ecosystems. In short, how do we make sure that the development co-benefits of climate action also protect ... Advisors, GCF launched the Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR) , that is aimed at crowding in private sector ...
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GCF Board approves nearly USD 600m in new climate projects after selecting Mafalda Duarte as new Executive Director
... climate finance for developing nations, as well as the selection of a new Executive Director. Mafalda Duarte has ... including co-financing. The Board also approved the accreditation of The Nature Conservancy based in the United ... the meeting is available on the Board section of the GCF website. Funding Activity Agreements were signed for: FP199 : ...
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The Government of Barbados forms a coalition of multilateral banks and organizations to develop resilient infrastructure and to drive new social and nature capital investments, building on its Resilience and Sustainability Facility at the IMF
... an integrated package of innovative initiatives to accelerate its transition to net zero, boost resilience, ... workers, and draw in private sector investment while prudently managing public debt levels. These initiatives build ... the new Bank at its meeting next month.” Makhtar Diop, IFC Managing Director, said, “Barbados is redoubling ...
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41 funders, partners endorse new guiding principles for financing climate and health solutions to protect health
A consortium of multilateral development banks and funders, countries, and philanthropies today published the Guiding Principles for Financing Climate and Health Solutions (“Guiding ... during the 28th session of Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC (COP28) in Dubai. The Guiding Principles establish a ...
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Green Climate Fund announces support for adaptation, endorsement of COP initiatives
... the impact of its adaptation investments in support of new pledges, marking Food, Water, and Agriculture Day at COP29. ... most climate-vulnerable countries, including small island developing states (SIDS), least developed countries (LDCs) ... with a huge network of organisations, including 138 Accredited Entities, two-thirds of which are regional or ...
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Multilateralism must be at the core of our climate response
At the November 14th side event, “Catalyzing climate impact” organised by the ... year. With increased focus on the need to align the multiple sources of climate finance for maximum impact and ... and are responding to the calls for greater alignment of accreditation and access requirements, and flexibility in the ...
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Terms and conditions
Terms and conditions for the use of the Green Climate Fund's Website The website of the Green Climate Fund (“the ... Korea. GCF maintains the website as part of efforts to provide broad public access to information. The information ...
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Fourteen new Country Platforms announced in collaboration with GCF to drive country-led climate solutions
... global support and investments with national priorities, 14 developing countries and regions announced plans to develop ... Programme . At a moment when climate impacts are accelerating and global finance is falling short, this ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and serves the 2015 Paris Agreement. To fulfil its ...
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Committees, panels and groups
... panels and groups Committees assist the Board in its decision-making, and exercise any delegated authority under the overall authority and direction ... ad hoc should have a clearly defined timeline and end date, related to the execution of its functions and ...
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