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SAP047 - Climaventures: Harnessing the Domestic Private Sector Ecosystem for Climate Action in Pakistan
... particularly droughts and floods. The country’s Nationally Determined Contribution outlines an ambitious target for renewable energy, while its National Adaptation Plan focuses on agriculture, water resources, ... fund a venture accelerator to offer grants and expert guidance to up to 100 start-ups at the ideation stage. GCF will ...
Project > Private sector Pakistan 
FP265 - Climate-resilient landscapes for sustainable livelihoods in northern Ghana
This project aims to boost climate resilience for smallholder farmers in northern Ghana by enhancing food ... insecurity, water scarcity, crop losses, and infrastructure damage. These climatic impacts jeopardise rural livelihoods, ... and adaptive practices to support long-term adoption. FP265 Ghana 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 1046 Climate-resilient landscapes ...
Project > Public sector Ghana 
SAP051 - Increasing resilience to the health risks of climate change in the Federated States of Micronesia
... identified as the most pressing climate-health sensitive challenge facing the country. This project will enhance the ... climate-health policies and systems for effective adaptation; early warning systems to support timely responses ... processes are institutionalised in FSM so that effective adaptation responses can be made to these climate-related ...
Project > Public sector Micronesia (Federated States of) 
FP296 - Navis Decarbonization Fund I
... cannot achieve them without additional financial support. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in particular, are ... for deploying local climate solutions, but they are critically underserved by traditional capital markets due to ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries 
African Union calls for an ambitious and successful GCF replenishment
... for Africa’s climate action, such as climate financing, adaptation, and capacity building. Members of CAHOSCC ... for the Green Climate Fund’s activities in Africa and called for an ambitious and successful GCF replenishment. The ... commitment to tackle climate change both on mitigation and adaptation. The statement also emphasised the importance of ...
Article > Press release 
Postcard from Katowice: Saturday, December 8
... have arrived, but negotiations continued throughout Saturday in Katowice. Progress is being made, but not quickly enough to achieve the Presidency's goal of closing all the 'non-Paris Agreement' items by today. Those items include the annual guidance to the Green ...
Article > Press release 
IIU hosts Conference of International Investigators
... GCF the inaugural conference host in the region. IIU was mandated by the GCF Board to participate in the global network ... the CII in 2017. The CII is a community of professional bodies discussing integrity issues, sharing leading practices, and addressing global challenges in the fight against fraud and corruption. The ...
Article > Press release 
GCF at the mid-year UN Climate Change Conference
... as an operating entity of the financial mechanism to the UNFCCC. GCF will be providing updates in relation to its work on issues including support ... project preparation facility , and adaptation planning , all of which are key to GCF’s success in increasing the ...
Article > Press release 
Javier Manzanares appointed as GCF Deputy Executive Director
... contribution to global efforts on climate change. Across all of our activities, from readiness funding to support ... to be efficient and effective so we can deliver on our mandate.' Prior to his appointment at GCF Javier was Director ... & Technology (China), and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at INHA University in South Korea. Songdo Javier ...
Article > Press release 
Mainstreaming climate action: Howard Bamsey outlines GCF’s transformative efforts
... funds to incentivise climate mainstreaming in and among all of our partners' work," stated Mr Bamsey. Mr Bamsey ... questions of their finance partners on mainstreaming. Finally, he explained that GCF's project development processes ...
Article > Press release France 
GCF hosts first regional workshop for Latin America
... and climate-resilient sustainable development. The three-day workshop, held in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa ... climate priorities and projects. Sessions provided guidance on how to access the GCF and the support modalities ... to kick-start National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Appropriated Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in energy ...
Article > Press release Honduras 
Acumen and GCF sign agreement to implement its first approved project proposal, bringing household solar energy to East Africa
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Acumen Fund today signed a Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) enabling the ... at a later stage, not only meeting the objectives of the UNFCCC but also serving SE4ALL (Sustainable Energy For All) ... of CO2 emission by displacing the use of kerosene and diesel.’ Kenya Rwanda Uganda New York Acumen and GCF sign ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries 
France and Canada convert their pledges into usable resources for GCF
The governments of France and Canada today signed agreements with the Green Climate Fund to ... and cities have made pledges to GCF. The Fund encourages all contributors to rapidly convert their pledges into ... key operating entity under the financial mechanism of the UNFCCC. It is fully operational and has started to support ...
Article > Press release Canada France 
GCF/BM-2014/01 - Administrative Policies of the Fund
... the Board requested the Executive Director to promulgate all administrative guidelines and to submit the ... used by ADB”, the Fund’s basic salaries for internationally recruited staff will be maintained at the same levels ... of ADB. As ADB has no salary scale for staff who are locally recruited in the Republic of Korea, it is proposed to ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.02-12/02 - Additional Rules of Procedure of the Board
... what principles should be followed in voting if, despite all efforts, consensus cannot be reached. Questions were ... to this document. As suggested by Board members, the overall approach adopted has been to limit the content of the ...
Board document > Action item
Canada announces contribution to Green Climate Fund
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) welcomes Canada’s announcement it will contribute CAD 300 million to ... announce contributions to GCF at the end of 2018. So far, all three countries have announced a doubling of their ... building activities (known as readiness support) helping 126 developing countries identify and address their most ...
Article > Press release Canada 
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 for climate ... currently receiving GCF climate finance. The three-day meeting at GCF headquarters in Songdo, the Republic of ... new climate finance proposals worth USD 484.6 million. If all projects are approved, this is expected to generate USD ...
Article > Press release 
Strategic frameworks support for Armenia through ARMSWISSBANK
... NDCs and Paris Agreement. The green finance roadmap shall provide a strategic framework to mainstream green ... The development of the Roadmap with concrete recommendations will be aimed at accelerating the transition from ... be to scale up green finance through summing up the recommendations from all activities and outcomes of the Project, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Armenia
Message from GCF on the COVID-19 pandemic
... than any in living memory, and GCF has not been spared. To date, three GCF staff members and one colleague from a ... well as those in other countries. Together, we are taking all necessary steps to limit the risks of exposure and ... ensuring continuity of our operations – in a more agile, adaptable and virtual way – so that we can deliver on our ...
Article > Press release Republic of Korea (the) 
Freetown WASH and Aquatic Environment Revamping Program
... Program. Climate variability and change pose significant challenges to the availability and quality of Sierra Leone’s ... water shortages in the dry season. Increased forest degradation coupled with increase in intensity of rainfall events increases runoff and sediment loads in the ...
Document > Concept note Sierra Leone
DCP Webinar - Consultations on the second phase of the Enhancing Direct Access (EDA) Pilot
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Enhancing Direct Access (EDA) pilot aims to increase access to climate finance by ... the front-line of mitigation and adaptation actions, especially at the local level. The ...
Event > Webinar 
Supporting the Productive Development Bank in Bolivia to meet GCF accreditation standards
... Bolivia has a clear need to respond to local development challenges, articulating public and private productive sectors ... of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, in its role of NDA, nominated the Productive Development Bank (PDB) to start ... of the Action Plan by aligning PDB to fiduciary standards, Environmental and Social Safeguards and Gender and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Generation of a Conceptual Framework for the National Climate Change Registry of Ecuador (RNCC) and Design of a Version V.0 of the Measuring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system as part of the RNCC
... the National Climate Change Strategy (ENCC) and the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), and is currently developing the National Adaptation Plan (PLANACC), the National Mitigation Plan (PLAMICC) and the National Climate Finance Strategy (ENFC). Ecuador recently adopted the environmental law and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ecuador
Strengthening Serbia’s capacities for strategic engagement of private sector into climate financing
... a result of climate change. As stated in the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) the most vulnerable ... forestry, as well as human health and biodiversity. In parallel Serbia committed itself to the GHG emission reduction ... EUR up to 2025. Thus, in order to reduce risks, losses and damages caused by extreme climate and weather events and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Serbia
GCF/B.32/05 - Update of the simplified approval process
This policy package has been prepared for agenda item 8(a) on policy consultations, in line with the B.31 decision by which the Board agreed and confirmed the dates and venue of B.32, noting that the first two days will ... received on versions of the Update of the SAP that were formally presented to the Board at B.28 and B.30. It takes into ...
Board document > Action item
Accelerate Morocco s readiness to implement the climate change policy at a large-scale level
... on the results of the first Readiness Support the Moroccan NDA received (“Readiness 1”). The finance strategy in ... des priorités nationales en termes d’ adaptation et d’ attenuation et liste des programmes ... communication plans and stakeholder mappings to involve all relevant actors. Thereby it will enable Morocco to ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Morocco
Republic of Nauru National Adaptation Planning – Phase One
... of Nauru. The geography, isolation, environmental degradation and limited natural resources make Nauru particularly ... change resilience and improving the quality of life for all Nauruans. Adaptation has been an important part of the ... Nauru’s first and second national communications to the UNFCCC in 2001 and 2015 respectively. Additionally, adaptation ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Nauru
Establishing an Evidence-Based National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process at National and Subnational Scales in Cambodia Phase 1
The overall objective of the project is to Strengthen institutional ... national, sectoral, and subnational climate change adaptation strategies and actions. It is envisaged that the ... three outcomes include: Evidence basis produced to design adaptation solutions for maximum impact; Adaptation planning ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cambodia
GCF Write Shop on Blue Co Caribbean
... Blue Co, an umbrella project which will lay the foundation for crowding in investments from all sources and at scale on the blue economy. Using a ... project will have three components: Designing or updating blue economy frameworks at national and regional ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Bahamas 
GCF’s second replenishment continues with first consultation meeting
... observers (GCF active observers and secretariats of the UNFCCC, Adaptation Fund and CIF) to discuss details of GCF’s second ... the climate crisis urgency, he added “We are one of the fastest climate funds in the world in terms of programming ...
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