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Cooperation for climate action
Overview GCF is committed to ensuring that our activities complement ... supporting the climate ambitions of developing countries. This commitment is set out in our Governing Instrument (para ... is available here . On 3 November 2021 - Finance Day at COP26, GCF adopted a joint statement with the Adaptation Fund, ...
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Decision on appeal no IDP/2024/C004
Decision on appeal no IDP/2024/C004 ...
Document > Information disclosure decision
GCF/B.17/13 - Pilot Programme for REDD+ Results-based Payments
As per decision B.14/03, paragraph (b), this document presents a draft request for proposals for REDD+ ...
Board document > Action item
Meet the iTAP: Nature-based Solutions across the GCF’s portfolio
In this Meet the iTAP session, iTAP's Chair Caroline Petersen ... some trends over time. The session included a Q&A discussion, allowing participants to actively engage and ...
Event > Webinar 
Advancing Lao PDR’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) through Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments for Disaster Risk Management in human settlements
This NAP Readiness proposal was developed by UN-Habitat Office ... requested by the NDA, Climate Change Department (DCC), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), to ... capacity on climate change-related planning for government officials across the country. The immediate beneficiaries of ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Lao People's Democratic Republic (the)
Enhanced actions to respond to climate change through sustainable waste management in Coastal Cities in Cambodia
As Cambodia is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, it is imperative to improve its water management, especially ... The direct beneficiaries of this proposal will be technical officials from the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cambodia
Call for Submissions on the GCF 3rd Updated Strategic Plan for 2028-2031
... programming focus, and institutional evolution, it is committed to ensuring that its future strategic direction ... society organisations, the private sector, parties to the UNFCCC and other climate finance partners—to participate in ... process, they must be submitted by 23:59 UTC on May 20, 2026, in a Word/PDF format to strategy@gcfund.org . While the ...
Document > Call for input
Committees, panels and groups
Committees, panels and groups Committees assist the Board in its decision-making, and exercise any delegated authority under the overall authority and ...
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The Climate Finance Opportunity in Developing Countries: How the Green Climate Fund Delivers Climate Action
There is a shrinking window of opportunity to address the climate crisis. Average global temperature is currently estimated to ... lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP26 in November. This virtual round table discussed the ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
GCF sets funding proposal schedule for B.21 [Updated]
The Green Climate Fund has revised the timeline for its twenty-first Board meeting as per the confirmed meeting date. The timeline lists key dates leading to the Board meeting, where the 24 ... projects – 14 September 2018 Publishing deadline – 26 September 2018 B.21 – 17-20 October 2018 For any ...
Article > Press release 
GCF sets funding proposal schedule for B.20 [Updated]
The Green Climate Fund has revised the timeline for its twentieth Board meeting as per the confirmed meeting date. The timeline lists key dates leading to the Board meeting, where the 24 ... 2 March 2018 Deadline to submit to GCF (public sector) – 26 February 2018 Deadline to submit to GCF (private sector) ...
Article > Press release Republic of Korea (the) 
GCF Board holds its first meeting for 2022
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board is set to convene today its first meeting of the year. The ... balanced financial support for measures that reduce emissions and enhance climate resilience. Other orders of ... and Board committees, panels and groups; guidance from COP26 ; status of GCF resources, pipeline and portfolio ...
Article > Press release 
Mobilising financing for agricultural technologies: seeding a climate resilient and food-secure future
... never before to feed the world’s growing population. This growth comes with an increase of climate risks and stressors that can adversely impact food production ... just the location of them, but the severity of them. That frees farmers up to not have to go out and scout.” ...
Article > Story Multiple countries 
GCF lays climate finance groundwork in Africa and the Pacific
The Green Climate Fund’s latest expansion of assistance to countries preparing to implement climate finance is targeting Africa and the Pacific. GCF has provided USD ... the Pacific Community ( SPC ), an organization governed by 26 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) that coordinates ...
Article > Press release Mauritania Rwanda MOE_Rwanda 
GCF/B.10/09 - Selection Process and Terms of Reference of the Heads of the Accountability Units: Recommendations of the Appointment Committee
At the ninth meeting of the Board on 24-26 March 2015 in Songdo, Republic of Korea, the Board established the Appointment Committee as a committee of the Board ... 2 (g) and 30 of the Rules of Procedure of the Board. In decision B.09/14, paragraph (c), the Board requested the ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.23/Inf.07 - Report on the execution of the 2019 administrative budget of the GCF
This document reports on the execution of the GCF 2019 administrative budget and multiyear budgets approved for the ... total expenditure was USD 21.1 million for annual budgets (26 per cent of the approved budget) and USD 0.4 million for ...
Board document > Information
GCF Webinar on Portfolio Performance Management System (PPMS)
On 26 January 2021 the GCF Secretariat launched the Portfolio ... Performance Management System (PPMS)– a centralised portfolio management system, which aims to increase the efficiency of monitoring and managing performance and risks in GCF projects. The digitalisation of programmatic ...
Event > Webinar 
Great Green Wall gets USD 82.8 million boost from GCF and IFAD
A project agreement has been signed in the margins of the COP26 meeting in Glasgow to green-light a USD 82.8 million GCF ... signed the agreement for the “ Africa Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme: Building the resilience of ...
Article > Press release IFAD 
GCF/B.34/Inf.14 - Report on the execution of the 2022 administrative budget of GCF
This document provides information on the execution of the GCF 2022 administrative budget for the period from 1 January to 31 August ... of USD 1.3 million for the second performance review (26 per cent of the approved budget). These figures do not ...
Board document > Information
Green Climate Fund strengthens regional private sector programming
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) started 2026 with another significant reform that will strengthen the ... team into the four Regional Departments that were established in 2024, enhancing the Fund’s ability to deliver at scale via stronger engagement with existing and potential new private sector partners in the ...
Article > Press release 
FP216 - Scaling up climate resilient flood risk management in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Climate change is showing its impact in Bosnia and Herzegovina through ... and significant shifts in seasons and rainfall patterns. This has led to a rise in destructive floods, causing damage ... to infrastructure, agriculture, and livelihoods. Currently, 26 per cent of the population in Bosnia and Herzegovina is ...
Project > Public sector Bosnia and Herzegovina UNDP 
Maya-K'iche' in Guatemalan highlands embrace nature-based solutions
... grew up in the highlands of Guatemala, where he lives with his extended family. At eleven years old, Cuterez Lares lost ... co-found Cooperativa Integral Agrícola Unión Chipaquense (COINACHI). Passionate about the organisation's mission, he ... their land. Acting as an open laboratory, the cooperative freely shares knowledge through hands-on technical advice. ...
Article > Story Guatemala IUCN 
European Investment Bank and Green Climate Fund sign partnership agreement
... Howard Bamsey stated the partnership between EIB and GCF is a crucial one, since it has the potential to finance ... with another partner, Conservation International, this initiative will enhance the resilience of smallholder ... of total lending (In 2016, climate action represented over 26 percent of the total lending, or EUR 19.5 billion). In ...
Article > Press release EIB 
GCF, UNDP and WHO join forces to ramp up climate health support for developing countries
... The latest IPCC report highlights that climate change is a serious threat to human well-being and planetary ... that protect or improve human health. Additionally, there is fragmentation of efforts towards financing this nexus. To ... countries to implement their health commitments made at COP26 and through the WHO's Alliance for Transformative Action ...
Article > News update 
Lao PDR connecting climate resilience and green growth
The Lao People’s Democratic Republic is embarking on a green growth strategy to ensure its socio-economic development is sustainable and anchored in protecting the environment ... the hour-long discussion, the delegation engaged with GCF officials to better understand how the Fund works and ...
Article > Press release Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) 
New Executive Director takes office at the Green Climate Fund
Howard Bamsey has officially begun his duties as new Executive Director of the ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by financing climate mitigation and adaptation ...
Article > Press release 
Algeria outlines climate action ahead of COP 21
During a one-day visit to the Algerian capital, the Executive Director of the ... Fund, Héla Cheikhrouhou, interacted with government officials to learn first hand about the country’s climate ... the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC. Upon invitation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ...
Article > Press release Algeria 
GCF to explore how to extend REDD+ coverage at Asia-Pacific Forestry Week
... about forest-based climate finance. Leading environment officials from the governments of Indonesia, Bhutan, ... gas reduction and environmental protection during the discussion panel. This year marks an important milestone for ... under the REDD+ financing umbrella. REDD+ refers to the UNFCCC-based accounting and funding mechanism that supports ...
Article > Press release 
Message from GCF on the COVID-19 pandemic
... who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. This worldwide pandemic is more devastating than any in living memory, and GCF has ... Climate Fund is working hand-in-hand with public health officials, medical experts and the authorities of the ...
Article > Press release Republic of Korea (the) 
Brazilian Platform of sustainability: traceability and certification for cattle and soybeans supply chain in the Amazon
... climate change and reduction of greenhouse gasses (GHG) emissions, but fails to implement it on a large scale, keep ... by those initiatives in a coordinated manner. The country is responsible for a significant share of globalGHG ... and soybeans supply chains in the “Legal Amazon”, the official designation by the Brazilian Bureau of Geography ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Brazil FAO