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State of Palestine Country Programme
Climate change is the most prominent threat the world is facing, and it is ... impact on all aspects of life on this planet. In an effort to respond to climate change challenges, the international ... and additional source of funds, but it is not related to official development assistance. Consequently, it can help ...
Document > Country programme State of Palestine
Strengthening Carbon Capture Storage and Reporting Frameworks and Mechanisms
... record (UNEP 2022). Nevertheless, the gap between estimated total GHG emissions resulting from the full implementation ... NDCs and the total global GHG emissions from least-cost pathways will not limit global average temperature increase to ... to limit GHG emission in accordance with the goals of the UNFCCC. This includes augmenting public systems for capturing, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Suriname Trinidad and Tobago
Dialogue opens new opportunities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
The Green Climate Fund will seek to expand its portfolio of climate change projects and ... GCF regional Structured Dialogue today in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The four-day forum, being opened by Tajikistan’s ... Prime Minister Zokirzoda Mahmadtoir Zoir, will bring together representatives from 13 countries across the region ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries 
Strengthening Lesotho’s capacity to advance the National Adaptation Planning process
The Kingdom of Lesotho is a small, land-locked country in southern Africa that is ... droughts, heavy rainfall and snowfall events, and hailstorms. These extreme conditions are hindering national ... context, the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process was officially launched in October 2015 with a two-day, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Lesotho
Dialogue prioritises increased climate investment to address fragility and conflict
... and Yemen highlighted the need for increased accessibility to climate finance as the key to delivering more impact on ... climate finance for fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS). In 2025, GCF committed almost half a billion dollars ... to FCAS, to build long-term resilience, increasingly targeting the humanitarian-peace-development nexus, whilst ...
Article > News update Oman 
Strengthening partnerships key to enhanced climate action, GCF leader tells largest gathering of developing country partners
... increasing threats of climate change, GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec informed GCF’s largest gathering yet ... of climate finance strategically through partnerships which best match national needs, and called on global support for ... countries annually by 2020. “2020 is just a few months away, and I’m deeply concerned by the level of the ambition ...
Article > Press release 
Readiness Support for the Accreditation of Kasikornbank, Updating of Thailand’s Country Programme, Development of Climate Finance Strategy, and Design of Blended Circular Economy Financing Facility
Objectives This grant will contribute to ensuring private sector ... for the updated TCP. Improve the NOL procedure based on best practices and determine suitable system for Thailand, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Thailand
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
... United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), is an international access entity based in Austria. It is a ... and environmental sustainability. With a mandate to promote and accelerate inclusive and sustainable ... project concepts aligned with national priorities. Together with GCF, UNIDO intends to work on partnering with ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), International Austria
Response to allegations reported by Financial Times
... behaviour made in a Financial Times newspaper article published on 26 August. The GCF’s Secretariat strongly refutes claims ... of systematic staffing problems affecting GCF’s mission to empower developing countries in taking climate action. ...
Article > Statement 
GCF concludes Framework Agreements with UNDP, UNEP and GIZ to support country readiness
... Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, enabling the three organisations to serve as readiness support delivery partners ... "The finalization of this agreement means we can now get to work as a Green Climate Fund delivery partner,” ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries 
GCF encourages more high-quality and ambitious proposals
... the need for high-quality, ambitious funding proposals to scale up action under the Fund and incite the necessary ... Bodies of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), GCF Board Co-Chair, Mr. Zaheer Fakir (South Africa), ... Regarding the Fund’s USD 2.5 billion approvals target for 2016, delegates were informed that, as of this ...
Article > Press release 
GCF scaling-up clean energy access through solar based mini-grids in Mali
Mali is a landlocked country in the Sahel belt of West Africa ... 80% of the population in the rural areas do not have access to electricity, while those with access are getting most of the electricity from diesel generators. The ...
Article > Story Mali 
Completion of the accreditation of the Environment Protection Fund as DAE for Lao PDR
... the first support for its accreditation as first DAE to the GCF in Lao PDR. The delivery partner was GIZ. As part ... outcomes are (1) to fulfill the remaining gaps and (2) to get accredited from GCF to be the National Accredited Entity ... which are likely to be the key beneficiaries for the GFC support. The results of the readiness project will ensure ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Lao People's Democratic Republic (the)
Strengthening Togo’s Institutional Capacity for a Low-Carbon Transport System (STILTS)
This readiness intends to support Togo in addressing its key climate change needs by building ... the prevailing high-emitting transport system expected to get worse with population growth and the ongoing ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Togo
Independent Integrity Unit Statement on the Commemoration of International Anti-corruption Day
... Climate Fund (GCF) joins the wider international community to mark this important day of solidarity for the promotion ... for operational collaboration and the sharing of best practices. IIU takes a proactive approach to preventing ... directly to the GCF Board. It also receives a separate budgetary allocation from the GCF Board to finance its ...
Article > Press release 
GCF seeks guidance on its REDD+ role
... host three webinars on 15 March 2017 seeking feedback into its current development of a request for proposals for ... drive shifts to low-emission sustainable development pathways by slowing, halting and reversing forest carbon loss. ... to ask questions and provide feedback about how GCF can best target its upcoming request for proposals. GCF will ...
Article > Press release 
GCF readiness support turns focus to Africa and Middle East countries
The Green Climate Fund is expanding its readiness programme into the Africa and Middle East region with a three-day ... of the region and create a platform for the exchange of best practices between them. Some of the subject areas being ...
Article > Press release Egypt 
Strategic frameworks support for Armenia through ARMSWISSBANK
The proposed Readiness Project is aimed at designing Green Finance Roadmap, as key ... vision for green finance strategy contributing to implementation of Armenia’s NDCs and Paris Agreement. ... Project, including the current situational stock-taking, best practices review, legal framework analysis, “green ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Armenia
Building the Adaptive Capacity of Sugarcane Farmers in Northern Belize
Belize is strongly affected by the impacts of climate variability and change, continue to severe damage impact on the agricultural sector. ... applied simultaneously that will most likely produce the best results. A cost benefit analysis of said technologies ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Belize
Workshop on the draft of the Water Sector Guidelines for DAEs
Water is the primary medium through which climate change impacts ... of water projects spanning the full breadth of the water sector, with projects in water resources management, water ... and mitigation challenges. But they most also follow best practices in water management today. GCF has ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Increasing the Resilience of the Cook Islands through Enhancing a National Adaptation Programme
The Cook Islands has been implementing a multi-sector approach to ... (GCF). The Cook Islands Adaptation response is based on the best available science and information, but despite this, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cook Islands
Strengthening of the Niue NDA and Niue’s Access to Climate Finance
... support for Niue’s National Designated Authority (NDA) to strengthen Niue’s institutional mechanisms to fulfil ... particular to the GCF, and to meet its climate targets and ambitions. To do this the proposed project aims to ... submission of concept notes to the GCF; Document and share best practices and lessons learned from climate financing ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Niue
Meet iTAP webinar: Ecosystem Based Adaptation or “EBA”
... services as part of an overall adaptation strategy to help people to adapt to the adverse effects of climate ... key being a systemic ecosystem-wide approach. The webinar discussed design of EBA projects in the GCF context, ... the climate problem being tackled and how; and apply best practice, science and traditional knowledge to select ...
Event > Webinar 
Integrated Flood Management in the Upper Regions of the Belize River Watershed
... River Basin are affected by flood incidents caused by stormwater runoff. These incidences have become more intense ... and non-climatic related barriers continues to derail their best efforts. As a result, the proposed project seeks to ... Impact Assessment, Engineering Designs, and Detailed Budget Plan. Environmental, Social and Gender Studies. Risk ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Belize
Coral Reef Resiliency Program
The project’s goal is to implement ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) within ... assessments and cost-benefit analyses to identify the best adaptation solutions are needed. In parallel, detailed ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Fiji
Subnational LoCAL Performance-Based Climate Resilience Financing Mechanism in Jamaica (Ja-NAP Local)
The Government of Jamaica (GoJ) seeks readiness support to assist Parishes (i.e. local government entities 1 ), to ... to identify the climate change adaptation responses that best meet local needs, and typically are mandated to ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Jamaica
Scaling the Communal Reserve Co- management Model to Reduce Emissions and Build Resilience of Indigenous People in the Peruvian Amazon
... International (CI) and the Peruvian government seek to develop a GCF Funding Proposal (FP) based on the project ... achieves ownership by stakeholders at all levels, and best serves the priorities of the Government and the ... but realistic mitigation and adaptation indicators and targets; analyse the Project’s anticipated financial and ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Peru
Building Eritrea’s Capacity for Effective Engagement with the Green Climate Fund
The goal of this Readiness Proposal is to support Eritrea to catalyse ... development (LECRD), methodologies, lessons learned or best practices extracted from within the country and from ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Eritrea
GCF’s approach to Locally Led Climate Action: Scaling up support for locally driven solutions
Locally Led Climate Action (LLCA) is central to how the Green Climate Fund (GCF) delivers on ... civil society, and the private sector – who are best positioned to design and implement climate responses ...
Article > News update 
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