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Enhancing Angola’s Access to Climate Finance for Sustainable Transport and Sustainable Landscape (AFOLU) Sectors
Climate change poses a severe threat to Angola’s economy and its population. About 80% of the most frequent disasters recorded in Angola are directly associated with hydro-climatic events: water scarcity or excess....
Document > Approved readiness proposal Angola GGGI
GCF’s first private sector conference boosts business role in climate finance
... pathways. GCF Deputy Executive Javier Manzanares said the IPCC’s most recent report , which identifies the dangers of ... in the transport sector needs to be replicated urgently in all areas of the economy where climate effects will be felt. ... finance. This will need to be addressed quickly as the IPCC report has “made abundantly clear that we need to act ...
Article > Press release 
The Green, Inclusive Innovation Imperative
Your Excellencies, ladies, and gentlemen. On behalf of the Green Climate Fund, it ... does not always materialize on time to address societal challenges. It can create new unforeseen problems on its own, ... global development trends is recognized in the SDGs, the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement. A single institutional ...
Article > Statement 
Regional Project for Leapfrogging to Energy-Efficient and Climate Friendly Air Conditioners in Cuba, El Salvador and Honduras
... $ 6 billion USD savings in electricity costs. This is especially the case for Central American and Caribbean countries, ... 3.5 million units by 2030 - a 51% increase from 2020 installed stock. The growing demand for cooling products will ... standardization and quality institutions and procurement bodies –as well as importers/manufactures from the private ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries UNEP
The green innovation imperative
Your Excellencies, dear participants, ladies, and gentlemen. On behalf of the Green Climate Fund, it ... are materializing faster than expected. Since 2001, the IPCC has published an assessment of the impacts of different ... global development trends is recognized in the SDGs, the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement. A single institutional ...
Article > Speech
High-level dialogue on building a green, healthy and resilient future with forests
... restoration and sustainable forest management are critically underfinanced. From 2010-2017, USD billion in finance ... efforts to incorporate the value of forest in all strategy, policy and financial decision-making processes ... (IGREENFIN I) which is contributing to the Great Green Wall initiative in the Sahel. This USD 192 million programme ...
Article > Speech
Establishing an Evidence-Based National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process at National and Subnational Scales in Cambodia Phase 1
... to identify ways to improve adaptation planning itself at all levels (national to local). The proposed project builds ... and well-documented, including: Data and information challenges. Barriers to mainstreaming include: low capacity to ... climate change into language accessible to different audiences; and limited effective communications efforts for ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cambodia
Enabling Activities for the Formulation and Implementation of a Multisectoral National Adaptation Plan for Belize
... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement. Article 7.9 of the latter ... in country. At the national level, Belize’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and National Climate ... to meet obligations under the Paris Agreement and UNFCCC. However, the Government of Belize (GOB) is committed ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Belize PACT
Mayan youth promoting nature-based solutions for sustainable agriculture in Guatemalan highlands
... adapt to climate change. The changing climate is drastically affecting ecosystems in the Guatemalan highlands ... Two of them were able to continue their primary level studies; six are in secondary school; fifteen in high school ... of Natural Resources and the Environment in Guatemala (FCG) and Rafael Landívar University. It is being ...
Article > Story Guatemala IUCN 
Cook Islands: First and fastest Green Climate Fund country project
... Fund (GCF), focuses on improving health outcomes for all Cook Islanders and was developed by the government, with ... and Preparatory Support Programme objectives, but also embodies the GCF core principle of country ownership. This ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and serves the 2015 Paris Agreement, supporting the ...
Article > Press release Cook Islands 
Executive Director’s remarks
Greetings. We all know by now that the climate crisis has infected every ... 2–4 billion per year by 2030. Low-income countries and Small Island Developing States endure the harshest health ... 91 per cent of countries prioritised health in their Nationally Determined Contributions. However, climate-health is ...
Article > Speech
ED remarks, Interactive Dialogue 4: The Future Starts Now: enhancing the global system for current and future generations
... it's essential to build confidence that we can face the challenges ahead, particularly climate change, and that we can ... and it’s important to have hope. But, of course, as we all know, this progress, hard-won as it is, isn’t moving ... have not been able to adequately respond to 21st-century challenges. We must embrace reform of the entire climate ...
Article > Speech
Sacred plant helps forge a climate-friendly future in Paraguay
... South America and beyond. However, the leaves they traditionally harvested in the wild have become increasingly scarce, ... diseases and soil conservation are reliable and environmentally friendly. The yerba mate seedlings planted in May 2022 ... forest is our supermarket. It has everything we need: remedies, food, wild animals, fruit...," says Treli Gabriela ...
Article > Story Paraguay FAO 
Ecuador’s bold bet on mangroves: A climate solution rooted in community and capital
... this damage. With a budget of USD 45.9 million and a radically inclusive approach, the “Mangroves for Climate” ... mangroves, improve local economies, and reduce emissions—all at once. Where past conservation efforts focused on ... than impose external solutions, the project champions locally led climate adaptation. It trains residents as forest ...
Article > Story Ecuador 
GCF private sector conference makes business case to lower planet's climate costs
... Executive Director Yannick Glemarec articulated his call for enhanced business action to tackle the climate ... through market barriers which currently mean that only a small fraction of more than USD 210 trillion of private sector ... climate change,” said Mr Glemarec. “Because ultimately all investment will be impacted by climate risk.” While ...
Article > Press release 
GCF, CABEI, and the European Union unite to finance Costa Rica’s GAM electric train
... interest rates and grace periods, this initiative is a fiscally responsible project that saves Costa Rica resources and ... completely new terminals, and nine overpasses, which will allow for continuous, high-quality service, with buses ... paper. Today it is a concrete and viable decision, financially backed by three international entities that believe in ...
Article > News update Costa Rica CABEI 
Green Climate Fund approves first 8 investments
... projects include national, regional, and international bodies accredited to the Fund, from both the public and ... explained. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has repeatedly identified the financing shortfall in ... by making its first funding decisions ahead of the UNFCCC Paris climate conference. With climate finance being a ...
Article > Press release Zambia 
Cook Islands launches its first GCF country programme
... with climate threats and the proposed solutions involving all development partners set a great example for other ...
Article > Press release Cook Islands 
GCF affirms partnership with the Caribbean Development Bank
... use of GCF resources. The agreement is a prerequisite for all Accredited Entities to implement GCF-approved projects. ...
Article > Press release CDB 
GCF Structured Dialogue focus turns to Asia
The challenge of maintaining solid economic growth in Asia through ... of Indigenous Peoples and the safeguards that underpin all of the Fund's activities. Structured Dialogues, which ...
Article > Press release Viet Nam 
GCF strengthens partnership with Inter-American Development Bank
... Accreditation Master Agreements (AMA) is a prerequisite for all GCF Accredited Entities to implement GCF-approved ... for accelerating the implementation of countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ). “We look forward ...
Article > Press release IDB 
New GCF manual puts gender at centre of climate response
... the central role of gender consideration in its allocation of climate finance. “Mainstreaming Gender in ... the inclusion of women, girls, men and boys from socially excluded and vulnerable communities at all stages of the climate finance project cycle. GCF is the ...
Article > Press release 
GCF enhances Asian coverage by bolstering ties with ADB
... an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA), a prerequisite for all GCF Accredited Entities in order to implement ... “The vital importance of Asia in meeting the climate challenge, along with GCF’s mandate to pursue transformative ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to deliver equal amounts of funding to mitigation and ...
Article > Press release ADB 
Words do make a difference, says South African climate finance partner
... head of GCF’s Country Programming Division, added that all GCF funding proposals must start with country strategies ...
Article > Press release South Africa SANBI 
Sweden deepens ties with GCF as Parliamentarians visit the Fund
... and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) including, for instance, to enhance renewable energy ... investment opportunities offered by Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). Isabella Lövin, ... climate change – by strengthening mutual confidence among all the parties involved and catalysing new capital that can ...
Article > Press release Sweden 
Strengthening Adaptation Planning in Tonga
... In December 2015, Tonga submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution, INDCs to the UNFCCC Secretariat and ratified the Paris Agreement in ... capacity, strengthen resilience and gender response in all climate financing programs, and reduce vulnerability to ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Tonga
Support The Union of Comoros to increase access to Climate Finance under the Green Climate Fund (GCF): enhancing decision-making process through better mainstreaming sciencebased Information
The Union of Comoros is a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) severely affected by the ... and increasing its level of ambition. One of the main challenges is its low institutional capacity to generate ... Programme, NDC and NAP. (Refer to the problem statement, challenges, gaps and barriers below). In addition, critical ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Comoros (the)
Green Climate Fund joins the Collaborative Partnership on Forests
... Climate Fund. The CPF's vision is a world in which by 2030 all types of forests and forest landscapes are sustainably ...
Article > News update 
The Green Climate Fund welcomes Austria’s contribution for its second replenishment (GCF-2)
... report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that urges for more ambitious climate action to avert ... and its disastrous effects are a major threat for humanity all over the world. This is especially true for developing countries in the Global South. We ...
Article > Press release Austria 
Developing key legislation, regulation, policies and concept notes for climate action in Namibia
... in the region. Namibia submitted its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the UNFCCC in July 2021 with an ambitious target of cutting ... for some sector targets related to Green Hydrogen. Specifically for the energy sector the country needs a detailed ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Namibia EIF