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Pakistan visits GCF, prepares for readiness grant
... to obtain readiness support from the Fund by October. Delegation officials said Pakistan will use the support to ... Heading the delegation, Mr. Arif Ahmed Khan, Federal Secretary of the Ministry of Climate Change, provided an ... Specialists from GCF provided guidance on the Fund’s accreditation process and financing modalities, including its ...
Article > Press release Pakistan 
GCF readiness support turns focus to Africa and Middle East countries
... expanding its readiness programme into the Africa and Middle East region with a three-day workshop being held from 6 to 8 September at the Library of Alexandria in Egypt. The GCF Africa and Middle East Workshop — the fourth meeting of its kind held by the Fund this year — aims to ...
Article > Press release Egypt 
Structured Dialogue with Least Developed Countries
... Climate Fund (GCF), in collaboration with the Government of Ethiopia and the Least Developed Countries' constituency under the UNFCCC, ... in their engagement with GCF, in consultation with the accredited entities and the GCF Secretariat to ensure ...
Event > Structured dialogue Ethiopia 
GCF Global Programming Conference 2019
... world, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is playing a major role in helping developing countries raise and realise their ... will be called to raise their climate ambition targets or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), GCF ... GCF National Designated Authorities or focal points, Accredited Entities, and others to explore how the Fund can ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the) 
Forests: A cause of climate concern, and hope
... Guatemala Madagascar Mexico Morocco Paraguay Peru Rwanda Viet Nam FP001 FP011 FP013 FP019 FP022 FP026 FP048 FP050 FP062 FP073 FP076 Forests: A cause of climate ...
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Fourteenth meeting of the GCF Board (B.14)
The fourteenth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held ... of funding proposals Policies on the formal replenishment process Matters relating to accreditation: Strategy and policy on accreditation ...
Event > Board meeting 
Micro, Small, and Medium sized Enterprises Pilot Programme
... up to USD 200 million for the Programme. The GCF Secretariat will seek to allocate at least USD 100 million for developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, including least ...
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GCF Global NDA Conference 2018
The Green Climate Fund is pleased to host the Global NDA Conference on 8-9 and 12 ... communities face. The Global NDA Conference will bring together participants from all GCF National Designated ... for Climate Conference, please refer to the conference website . 1 / 100 Previous Next #2018NDAconference Republic of ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the) 
GCF to explore how to extend REDD+ coverage at Asia-Pacific Forestry Week
... to consult with a wide range of forestry experts to determine how to expand GCF’s engagement with REDD+ and ... an information session about forest-based climate finance. Leading environment officials from the governments of ... under the REDD+ financing umbrella. REDD+ refers to the UNFCCC-based accounting and funding mechanism that supports ...
Article > Press release 
Green Climate Fund Board begins 23rd meeting today
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board opens its 23rd meeting today at the GCF headquarters in Songdo, Republic of ... 101 approved projects. The Board will also consider accrediting four organisations to become GCF funding partners. ... Accredited Entities, which allow for finances to be channelled directly to developing countries rather than through ...
Article > Press release 
Canada announces contribution to Green Climate Fund
... to the announcement, GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec stated: “The Green Climate Fund welcomes the ... currency. Canada will host GCF’s second consultation meeting in Ottawa on 29-30 August. This will be followed by a ... building activities (known as readiness support) helping 126 developing countries identify and address their most ...
Article > Press release Canada 
GCF addresses climate farming challenges in expert panel
GCF co-organised a consultation and technical meeting on climate change, agriculture and food systems with ... consultation held at the sidelines of GCF’s second replenishment meeting in Ottawa, Canada. As part of the GCF replenishment and strategic programming, the event discussed ...
Article > Press release Canada 
GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference paves the way for more climate finance from the private sector
... for Climate Conference is designed to act as an ideas marketplace to explore how to redirect the huge amount of funds ... to hold this second annual private sector-focused forum reflects the Fund’s recognition that investments by ... bonds to fund climate-focused action, and expand the role of financial innovation to boost climate investments in ...
Article > Press release 
Agreement with Spanish global investor strengthens GCF’s private sector pull
... (COFIDES) is a joint state and privately-owned company accredited by GCF in October last year to finance climate ... signed an agreement on Wednesday which lays the legal groundwork for GCF to injects its own catalytic input ... COFIDES to help us redirect the world’s private sector assets, estimated at around USD 210 trillion, to fund ...
Article > Press release 
Last GCF Board meeting of 2019 begins today
The 24th Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting opens today to consider expanding the Fund’s support ... action partners. The Board will also decide whether to accredit seven new partners to propose and implement paradigm-shifting initiatives funded by GCF that ...
Article > Press release 
GCF's new e-learning platform to improve capacity building and knowledge sharing
Today, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) launched its first e-learning course to enable easier access to the Fund's ... (SAP). The SAP course is primarily designed for GCF's Accredited Entities, National Designated Authorities and Focal Points. It provides detailed information on the key elements required for SAP ...
Article > Press release 
Pledging Conference for GCF's First Replenishment
... change took an historic step forward with 27 countries pledging to replenish the Green Climate Fund (GCF) by USD 9.78 billion ... in 2014, even though some of those contributors have yet to pledge. Three-quarters of the countries increased ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF France 
Message from GCF on the COVID-19 pandemic
... been spared. To date, three GCF staff members and one colleague from a partner organisation have tested positive for ... where GCF is based, as well as those in other countries. Together, we are taking all necessary steps to limit the risks ... of exposure and transmission of COVID-19. These actions supplement a range of precautionary measures that GCF put in ...
Article > Press release Republic of Korea (the) 
Bolstering the resilience of poor, climate-vulnerable communities
... adaptation capacity of those most at risk, particularly female-led households, just as monsoon season threatens. “We were moving as quickly as possible to get the project up and running in time for the new flood ...
Article > Press release Bangladesh 
GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference 2018
... 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. ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
GCF and UNEP webinar on ‘Scaling-up GCF Projects on Energy-Efficient and Climate Friendly Cooling’
... 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 ...
Event > Webinar 
GCF Support to Climate Resilient Recovery
... 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 ...
Event > Webinar 
GCF’s flagship private sector conference opens today: investment solutions for climate-COVID crisis
... 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 ...
Article > Press release 
GCF accredits Macquarie to develop partnership in climate investments
... 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 ...
Article > Press release 
Updated GCF Project Preparation Facility Guidelines
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 ...
Event > Webinar 
FP146 - Bio-CLIMA: Integrated climate action to reduce deforestation and strengthen resilience in BOSAWÁS and Rio San Juan Biospheres
... 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 ...
Project > Public sector Nicaragua 
Twenty-eighth meeting of the GCF Board (B.28)
#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, ...
Event > Board meeting 
GCF Board meeting opens with USD 1.2 billion in climate finance on agenda
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 ...
Article > Press release 
International Financial Institutions Knowledge Management Community of Practice (COP) Spring Meeting
... 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 ...
Event > Webinar 
Workshop on the draft of the Water Sector Guidelines for DAEs
... 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 ...
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