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Disasters spur climate action coherence in Caribbean
... Recent meetings with GCF partners in Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Barbados, Grenada and Haiti have shown that ... accentuates the need to focus on boosting resilience at all levels. “We need to build resilience to climate change ... Caribbean and for capacity building and pre-feasibility studies for the proposed First Climate Resilient-Smart City in ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries 
GCF discusses progress at Marrakech climate talks
... Change in Marrakech to present the progress it has made to date in supporting low-emission and climate-resilient ... and truly transformational; one that has the backing of all countries, as much as by civil society and the private ... “At B.11, the Board approved USD 168m; at B.13 – USD 265m; and at B.14 – USD 745m.” The GCF Board will ...
Article > Press release 
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Algeria through National Agency on Climate Change
... of climate change is in Algeria an important and new challenge. A large part of Algeria belongs to the ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and fully subscribes to commitments relating to the ... to climate change, particularly in the search for ways of adaptation and mitigation. With no historical responsibility ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Algeria
Green Climate Fund Board approves USD 267 million for climate action, agrees decision-making procedures
... agreed procedures for adopting decisions in the event that all efforts at reaching consensus have been exhausted. The Board allocated USD 266.9 million in GCF resources for climate action in ... 111 projects in 99 developing countries. Responding to a mandate within its Governing Instrument, the twenty-four member ...
Article > Press release 
UN Climate Summit paves the way for an ambitious and successful replenishment of the Green Climate Fund
Calls from UN Secretary-General António Guterres to double ... its commitment to GBP 1.4 billion (USD 1.851 billion) Canada pledged to commit CAD 300 million (USD 225.5 million) The ... building activities (known as readiness support) helping 126 developing countries identify and address their most ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries 
Climate investments critical for post-COVID recovery: GCF conference highlights mobilisation of private capital to green developing economies
... Climate Conference have flagged the pandemic as a wake-up call for efforts to shift portfolios towards climate-friendly investments. The three-day virtual event, which concluded today, stressed the private sector’s critical role in ...
Article > Press release 
Strengthening Adaptation Planning processes and capacity for successful implementation of adaptation actions in the Agricultural and Water sectors of Trinidad and Tobago
Like many other Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean, the southerly located twin-island state of Trinidad and Tobago is already experiencing the adverse effects ... the adoption of effective and integrated climate change adaptation measures in the two sectors. A coherent approach ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Trinidad and Tobago
Climate crisis in the Himalayas: addressing the threat of melting glaciers in Northern Pakistan
... harvesting, and ice stupas for water conservation in the valleys of the north. The goal is twofold: to safeguard local ... the affected regions. They include gabion walls, check dams, and irrigation channels, all designed to divert and ... the area, ensuring that no one is left behind. By Jin Hee Dieu, in collaboration with UNDP Pakistan FP018 Climate ...
Article > Story Pakistan FP018 
Green Climate Fund approves funding to Climate Asset Management to develop strategy for scaling regenerative practices at a landscape level in Sub-Saharan Africa
... technical assistance facility aimed at enhancing climate adaptation and food security for smallholder farmers across landscapes in Sub-Saharan Africa ... landscapes: Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia; with Laudes Foundation providing ...
Article > Press release 
Caribbean countries launch landmark platform to scale up climate investment
... of resilience across the Caribbean region was announced today. The landmark Regional Platform for catalyzing ... too long, the Caribbean has been sounding the alarm and calling for greater action to build the resilience of our ... and our countries from the impacts of the Climate Crisis. Today, we take another step in this regard, with the launch of ...
Article > Press release Barbados 
Adaptation Fund, Green Climate Fund Convene First Community of Practice Meeting of Direct Access Entities to Climate Finance
... countries that are vulnerable to climate change, the Adaptation Fund (AF), Green Climate Fund (GCF), African ... Access project implemented by SANBI that is helping small-scale farmers adapt to climate change in the uMngeni ... Both AF and GCF also have processes in place to ‘fast-track’ each other’s implementing entities to help ...
Article > Press release United States 
IFAD and GCF scale-up action to improve life for millions of people and restore ecosystems in Africa’s Great Green Wall
... climate-impacted parts of the Sahel have cause for hope today because of their governments’ support for accelerating Africa’s Great Green Wall (GGW), an area covering 11 countries from Senegal and ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). “The GGW Up of the GCF and IFAD is a ...
Article > Press release 
Financing climate ambition in the context of COVID-19
... of Climate Business, International Finance Corporation (IFC)] At the onset I would like to thank the governments of ... of a better expression to describe the situation we face today. Worldwide millions of jobs have been lost to the ... be taking in the coming months will have consequences for all the generations to come. And these consequences will be ...
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Investment decisions and the climate challenge
... This group now accounts for 13 per cent of consumers globally, including 20 per cent in Germany, 16 per cent in ... an additional USD 140 to 300 billion is needed annually to adapt to the impacts of climate change. But there are several ... Wall initiative to reverse land degradation in Africa. Ladies and gentlemen, transitioning to low emission, ...
Article > Speech
GCF approves USD 686 million for climate action and decides to establish regional presence
... action at the local level.” GCF Executive Director Mafalda Duarte said: “If climate action is local ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Fund serves the 2015 Paris Agreement, supporting ... to climate change, with Conservation International FP260: Enhancing the resilience of Serbian forests to ensure ...
Article > Press release 
Project safeguards
Overview GCF ensures that the climate finance it allocates does not harm local communities or ecosystems. GCF standards include equitably managing environmental and social ...
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Policies: Project approval
... for Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+) funding proposals ...
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Accreditation process
... to pre-screening, application, screening and review, and finally, Board approval. Each step is designed to strengthen ...
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The positives of preparing for disaster
... using climate information systems, which consist of data collection points that are mapped and analysed, to ... monitoring and information sharing. This is timely as studies indicate extreme weather events are expected to occur ... manifest in a variety of forms – ranging from the abnormally powerful hurricanes that smashed into the Caribbean in ...
Article > Story Multiple countries FP002 
FP007 - Supporting vulnerable communities in Maldives to manage climate change-induced water shortages
... These shortages are exacerbated by climate-induced challenges such as variable rainfall and rising sea levels, ... including the Water and Sanitation Act. The project adapted to government policy shifts from centralized to ... Geographical Information System (GIS), groundwater studies, and monitoring systems are now overseen by the Water ...
Project > Public sector Maldives 
FP086 - Green Cities Facility
... important role in taking on climate change mitigation and adaptation actions. Green Cities minimise environmental ... transitioning to a path of low-carbon development can be challenging as municipalities face financial constraints for ... 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 
Eighth meeting of the GCF Board (B.08)
... the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from Tuesday, 14 October to Friday, 17 October, in Bridgetown, ... at scale Working with local private entities, including small and medium-sized enterprises Initial resource ... Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change thematic bodies, such as the Adaptation Committee and the Technology ...
Event > Board meeting
Traditional Savanna Fire Management Readiness Proposal to facilitate Emissions Reductions in the AFOLU sector in Belize
Challenges and Gaps that the Proposal is Designed to Resolve ... sector as important to its climate change mitigation and adaptation response. Indeed, in the National Climate Change ... specifically has been established through international studies. Nevertheless, Belize has not yet developed a high ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Belize
"GCF has a huge role to play"
... in Pohnpei, and very happy that we have such a strong audience of representatives from the region as we chart a path ... climate fund helping developing countries respond to challenge of climate change. Our role is to support countries ... you as you face this real and growing threat. Being here today at the Structured Dialogue, we heard some of the key ...
Article > Press release Micronesia (Federated States of) 
Ministers call for successful GCF replenishment at HLPF
... meet their commitments under the Paris Agreement and called for an ambitious GCF replenishment. The event, titled ... Fund in Implementing the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda”, brought together a number of political leaders and ... of the International Development Finance Club (IDFC), with which GCF recently signed a partnership agreement, ...
Article > Press release Norway Rwanda 
GCF and Korean Government join forces to promote global Green New Deal
The head of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) on Thursday called for a global Green New Deal in which redirected ... the internationally agreed 1.5 temperature limit much faster than previously predicted,” he added. A number of ...
Article > Press release 
GCF commits to support climate resilient transformation at Climate Adaptation Summit
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is heeding calls to help developing countries bolster their defences against the increasingly damaging effects of climate change, while overcoming ... Yannick Glemarec brought to the recently concluded Climate Adaptation Summit 2021 . “As they grapple with the ...
Article > Press release 
GCF signs partnership agreement with BNP Paribas to accelerate climate action
... Master Agreement (AMA), a requirement for all GCF Accredited Entities, enables BNP Paribas ... countries in the implementation of mitigation and adaptation projects to reduce and control the risks ... clé du secteur bancaire international devenu chef de file dans le domaine du financement durable. L’Accord ...
Article > Press release 
Food Security and Adaptation Priorities in the Agricultural Sector in Tunisia
The Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for Tunisia indicates ... and research and development as some of the areas of adaptation in need of the most financial support. In ... and ecosystems to CC. The project aims to generate adaptation options in the agriculture sector (water, land, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Tunisia
Empowering farmers and protecting forests in Eastern Madagascar
... 0.01% of the world’s annual carbon dioxide emissions, Madagascar is facing the brunt of climate change. Extended droughts, lesser incidences of rainfall, and aggressive cyclones devastate the population’s ... Madagascar By Brylle James Galang Madagascar FP026 Empowering farmers and protecting forests in Eastern ...
Article > Story Madagascar FP026 