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Scaling up CoP event outlines COP26 outcomes and ways forward
To reflect upon COP26 outcomes and scale up climate ... discussions that reviewed COP26 proceedings and suggested ways forward to scale up climate finance and investments for ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process. Lord Nicholas Stern, Professor of Economics ...
Article > News update 
GCF focuses on getting funds flowing
... USD 1 million tranche of an approved USD 6.2 million grant to help Peru’s indigenous communities manage wetlands to ... GCF is preparing further disbursements in coming months to get funds flowing to the 43 projects it has already ... These legal agreements, currently numbering 18, open the way for GCF’s transfer of funds. The 16 FAAs signed during ...
Article > Press release 
GCF/B.08/05 - Relevant International Private Sector Best-Practice Fiduciary Principles and Standards and Environmental and Social Safeguards
This document presents the identification of relevant international private sector bestpractice fiduciary principles and standards and ESS, ...
Board document > Action item
GCF-EIF agreement opens way for start of Namibian nature-based climate solution
The Green Climate Fund has come a step closer to helping Namibia’s Environmental Investment Fund (EIF) ... signed a Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) which opens the way for the implementation of a project in Namibia which ... way of building climate resilience across eight targeted landscapes in Namibia. Scientific studies show that ...
Article > Press release Namibia 
GCF/B.23/24 - Report of the twenty-third meeting of the Board, 6 – 8 July 2019
... the conduct of the major points of the meeting. GCF/B.23/24 26 Report of the twenty-third meeting of the Board, 6 – 8 ...
Board document > Meeting report
GCF publishes the tentative funding proposal schedule for B.26
The Green Climate Fund has published the tentative timeline for its twenty-sixth Board ... the decision by the Board at the twenty-third meeting to hold B.26 from 23 to 25 June 2020 in Songdo, Incheon, ... peoples, and (iii) to the Board and active observers by way of a notification via the Secretariat. The deadline for ...
Article > Press release 
Great Green Wall gets USD 82.8 million boost from GCF and IFAD
... been signed in the margins of the COP26 meeting in Glasgow to green-light a USD 82.8 million GCF investment in support ... signed the agreement for the “ Africa Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme: Building the resilience of ... weather information services.” FP162 Great Green Wall gets USD 82.8 million boost from GCF and IFAD ...
Article > Press release 
COP30 Official Side Event: GCF.10: A Decade of Impact
November 2025 marks a pivotal milestone: ten years since the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved ... first climate investments and nearly a decade since the Paris Agreement was adopted. The side event will commemorate ... is ready to enhance its efficiency and impact, leading the way into the next decade with renewed ambition to deliver ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Forests get a boost from new GCF policy on REDD+ results-based payments
... known as results-based payments. This is a highly efficient way of financing emissions reductions, as payment is made ... permanently integrates REDD+ results-based payments into GCF’s regular project activity cycle. This will ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The policy also complements GCF’s newly revamped ...
Article > News update 
Getting ready for Katowice
GCF will be attending COP24 in Katowice, Poland from 2-14 December. We look forward to ... 101' briefings. GCF was created by the parties to the UNFCCC, and reports on our progress each year at the annual ... impact in supporting developing country climate ambitions. Getting ready for Katowice ...
Article > News update 
GCF spearheads innovation drive for climate-resilient infrastructure at COP26
GCF is pioneering an innovative new approach to developing climate-resilient infrastructure, which is set ... and sea level rise. A pilot project launched by GCF together with the Government of Jamaica is testing the ... helps to provide a systematic and financially sound way forward for vulnerable countries to protect against ...
Article > Press release Ghana Jamaica 
Green Climate Fund: USD 1.26 billion for climate action in developing countries
... the 38th Board meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) took place between 5-7 March, the first Board meeting of the ... member, Daniel Machado da Fonseca, from Brazil, who passed away on 3 March. The GCF Board endorsed eleven climate ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and serves the 2015 Paris Agreement, supporting the ...
Article > Press release 
Climate finance should include the poor, Philippine officials tell visiting GCF group
... a key role in helping poor people who are most vulnerable to climate change, senior Philippine environment officials ... and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez, explore ways to ensure climate finance can target those most in need in this sprawling archipelago nation, ...
Article > Press release Philippines (the) 
Long-term vision on complementary, coherence and collaboration between GCF and GEF
... Collaborating on climate finance is vital if we want to fulfil COP26 commitments and re- ignite momentum towards ... But we also need to lay the solid groundwork to chart our way towards this massive transition to low emission, ... scale and blended finance. As sister Funds under the UNFCCC, GCF and GEF are committed to the goal of the ...
Article > Speech
GCF briefs delegates as COP gets underway
GCF has published a series of ‘In Brief’ factsheets, as the ... the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change gets underway in Bonn, Germany. The factsheets provide an overview of ...
Article > Press release 
Green Climate Fund clears way for $2.5 bln funding challenge
The Green Climate Fund made progress in closing administrative and policy gaps at a meeting in South Korea this ... task of allocating $2.5 billion this year for projects to tackle climate change, experts said. Barcelona Green Climate Fund clears way for $2.5 bln funding challenge ...
Article > Article about GCF 
Climate impact potential: Challenges, lessons learnt and way forward
... concerns and difficulties in explaining the climate basis of proposed activities. This webinar is organized in response to these concerns and is designed to (1) understand the main ... Climate impact potential: Challenges, lessons learnt and way forward ...
Event > Webinar 
Executive Director Keynote Speech
As I was thinking about what to say today, I was taken back to my early days of climate ... working in international development, but I decided to target my work a little bit more in terms of development and ... vulnerable or mobilize the private sector in the required way. It requires deliberation. If we are not deliberate, ...
Article > Speech
GCF can plug the adaptation finance gap say leaders at COP26 side lines dialogue
Small island nations with only a little over a decade to prepare for accelerating global heating need large ... State’s (SIDS’) seashores are “daily eating away at our capacity to survive.” “it is critical that we ... GCF funding as a reliable partner in this journey.” The UNFCCC established GCF to support developing countries raise ...
Article > Press release 
Conference of the Parties (COP26)
Glasgow Conference of the Parties (COP26) ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
'Message getting through' that money for climate action matters: Green fund chief
When Mr. Manzanares came into to the UN News studios, he said the Fund’s investment message is getting through to UN Member States. Conor Lennon started ...
Article > Article about GCF 
African Infrastructure Gets Boost From $12 Billion Climate Fund
African Infrastructure Gets Boost From $12 Billion Climate Fund ...
Article > Article about GCF 
Getting Grenada Private Sector Ready for Grenada’s Climate Finance (GPS-4-GCF)
Limited access to climate finance, the unavailability of innovative ... sector and its capacity to leverage public financing. This readiness request seeks to enable the private sector in ... plans in at least two of the priority sectors. Grenada Getting Grenada Private Sector Ready for Grenada’s Climate ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Grenada
Cook Islands get major boost in fight against climate change
How GCF helps Small Island Developing States to access cash to address critical ... these countries are better able to access funding to get them off the ground and save lives. “The GCF ...
Article > Story Cook Islands 
Critical GCF Micronesia adaptation project gets underway in record time
... after Board approval, making this the fastest GCF project to be implemented so far. The Funding Proposal was submitted ... in 2021. Critical GCF Micronesia adaptation project gets underway in record time ...
Article > News update 
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. Board Policy on ethics and conflicts of interest for Board-appointed officials ...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Notification on official communications from the Green Climate Fund
... have received inquiries regarding communications purporting to be from the Green Climate Fund (GCF), relating to possible project funding decisions. Please note the following information: Our project ... defense sessions’. GCF/NOTIF/2019/7 Notification on official communications from the Green Climate Fund ...
Document > Notification
GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference paves the way for more climate finance from the private sector
Participants from over 100 countries have gathered to attend the Green Climate Fund’s second conference ... The three-day Private Investment for Climate Conference is designed to act as an ideas marketplace to explore how to ... The conference offers a unique opportunity to chart ways for institutional investors, including sovereign wealth ...
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 contributions to the Green Climate Fund were met ... The new pledges made at the UN Climate Summit have raised the replenishment total beyond USD 7.4 billion, with ... pledges with figures to be confirmed soon. Germany, Norway, France and United Kingdom have already announced a ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries 
Initial best-practice options for country coordination and multi-stakeholder engagement
Adopted by decision B.08/10 (d). Sets out best practice options for ... coordination and multi-stakeholder engagement. Initial best-practice options for country coordination and ...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines