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GCF sets the tentative funding proposal schedule for B.22
... The 22nd GCF Board meeting will tentatively be held on 26-28 February 2019, and the key dates are as follows: B.22 timeline (tentative): Deadline for disclosure of ESS reports for category A projects and I-1 ... for such disclosures shall be 120 days (A or I-1) or 30 days (B or I-2) in advance of the AE’s or GCF’s Board ...
Article > Press release 
GCF-1 Progress Report
... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement. From 2015 to 2019, during its ... climate finance, GCF works across several areas to ensure that funds for climate action reach those who need it ... The grant equivalent calculator tool, developed by the Office of Risk Management and Compliance of GCF, converts ...
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GCF scaling-up clean energy access through solar based mini-grids in Mali
... 80% of the population in the rural areas do not have access to electricity, while those with access are getting most of ... to clean energy to 50 localities in Mali, reaching 28,300 new households and reducing 821,000 tCO2eq of emissions ... ability to pay is a major barrier to commercial off-grid rural electrification activities in Sub Sahara ...
Article > Story Mali 
GCF and Korea Development Bank help climate innovators traverse “valley of death”
We need innovation to provide climate solutions. But too many great new ideas die in the so-called ‘valley of death’ ... to further these goals through its collaboration with the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee (TEC) and the Climate ...
Article > Press release 
Mitigation
... challenge Global emissions must be cut by 45 per cent by 2030 from 2010 levels if we are to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC. However, the current energy generation and ...
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Delivering at speed: 12 new projects ready for implementation
... GCF and Accredited Entity partners at a signing ceremony on 30 October, marking the most project agreements signed at a ... for 22 projects, bringing the year’s total to USD 3.26 billion. GCF’s portfolio currently comprises 336 ...
Article > News update 
SAP026 - Extended Community Climate Change Project-Drought (ECCCP-Drought)
... that have been steadily increasing over the past 30 years. The objective of the ECCCP-Drought project is to make the NWR region of Bangladesh less vulnerable to ... purposes to reduce the burden of women in the region. SAP026 Bangladesh 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 600 942 Extended Community ...
Project > Public sector Bangladesh 
FP062 - Poverty, Reforestation, Energy and Climate Change Project (PROEZA)
... sequestering carbon and supporting local households to diversity their agricultural production to enhance their resilience to the impacts of climate ... law enforcement. The project has an estimated lifespan of 30 years. FP062 Paraguay 1 2 3 4 1 2 142 450 650 923 ...
Project > Public sector Paraguay 
GCF engages Asian countries in dialogue on their climate investments
GCF’s first Structured Dialogue with Asia, opening today in Indonesia, will seek common cause amid diversity in bringing together representatives from 24 nations. Participants will ... such as the 13thUnited Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) in 2007 which launched the Bali Road Map , an early ...
Article > Press release Indonesia 
Grenada PM calls for decisive climate action at GCF Structured Dialogue with the Caribbean
... Mitchell of Grenada called on participants from the region to work together to address the risks of climate change and ... vanguard of this important institution,” he said while offering Grenada’s commitment to champion the ... six projects in the region valued at USD 449 million and 26 readiness grants valued at USD 18 million covering 14 of ...
Article > Press release 
Where do we stand with NDCs? Enhancing action on climate change in 2020
I would like to congratulate UNFCCC for this timely event on enhancing action on climate ... raising NDC ambitions and was supposed to culminate at COP 26 this November. However, the Covid-19 pandemic is ... resilient development. As leaders consider stimulus measures, we have a rare opportunity to leverage such measures ...
Article > Statement 
Where do we stand with NDCs? Enhancing action on climate change in 2020
I would like to congratulate UNFCCC for this timely event on enhancing action on climate ... raising NDC ambitions and was supposed to culminate at COP 26 this November. However, the Covid-19 pandemic is ... resilient development. As leaders consider stimulus measures, we have a rare opportunity to leverage such measures ...
Article > Speech
A ‘vaccine’ for tropical forests?
... earlier this year that he would be "donating $100 million towards a prize for best carbon capture technology”. Out ... central to the concepts of innovations announced in his offer. Ultra-large scale. Is 1.8 billion hectares large ... nervous system. When we are nervous, we get heated and our bodies find the way to cool down: We ...
Article > Insights 
GCF and Africa Finance Corporation drive low-emission development in Africa
... today of an agreement with the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC). The two organizations signed an Accreditation Master ... wind farm in Sub-Saharan Africa. The USD90 million, 26MW Cabeolica project provides over 20 percent of Cape Verde's power needs. Oliver Andrews, Chief Investment Officer of AFC, said during the AMA signing the consequences ...
Article > Press release 
Structured Dialogue with Asia 2018
The Structured Dialogue with Asia brought 26 countries from across the region to Da Nang in Viet Nam from May 17 to 20. The Dialogue ... these considerations in climate change investment plans ensures that actions will do no harm, and act to improve the ...
Event > Structured dialogue Viet Nam 
FP044 - Tina River Hydropower Development Project
A hydropower facility to transit power system in Solomon Islands from diesel generated to clean and renewable energy. Universal grid-connected ... for supply to the capital. The Solomon Islands seeks to greatly increase access to reliable electricity supply, ...
Project > Public sector Solomon Islands 
Ulaanbaatar: Live Better, Breathe Easier
Walking into the house of Otgonkhuu on a particularly windy winter ... population. “There weren’t that many people living here 30 years ago. This ger district was also not as big,” he ... communities have been going on for many years in order to ensure their acceptance of the project which will be ...
Article > Story Mongolia 
SAP059 - Fueling Green Recovery in Armenia – advancing forest infrastructure and creating sustainable jobs for rural communities
... is experiencing climate change impacts intensifying pressures on its ecosystems and rural communities. Forests, ... logging, overgrazing and weak management, which is leading to declining carbon sequestration, increased soil erosion ... governance and enable future carbon market access. Together, these interventions will reduce climate risks, ...
Project > Public sector Armenia 
Country programming support and sustainable tourism planning for Cabo Verde
Cabo Verde’s growing vulnerability towards environmental instabilities as well as its high ... climate change, by proposing mitigation and adaptation measures to successfully achieve targets made in its Nationally ... Plan Options for Sustainable Tourism Development for 2018-2030 (GOPEDS-Tourism 2018-2030), identifying sectors that are ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cabo Verde
The Green Climate Fund Board selects Yannick Glemarec as new Executive Director
... action in developing countries. Yannick Glemarec brings 30 years of international experience in climate change, ... Executive Coordinator of the UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office in New York from 2013 to 2015. Previously, he served ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and serves the Paris Agreement. The Executive ...
Article > Press release 
Strengthening sectoral expertise and strategic framework to support the implementation of Climate Appropriate Portfolios of Tree Diversity (CAPTD) for productive and resilient landscapes and livelihoods in AFOLU across Burkina Faso (acronym R-CAPTD )
The specific readiness challenge is to build sectoral expertise, strategic framework, programme ... Contribution (NDC) and Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) targets by 2030, as well as associated targets of the National ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Burkina Faso
FP130 - Indonesia REDD-plus RBP for results period 2014-2016
... REDD+ results for 2014-2016, with a total volume of 27 million tonnes of carbon dioxide ... of the country’s social forestry programme. FP130 Indonesia 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 301 463 592 739 Indonesia REDD-plus RBP for results period ...
Project > Public sector Indonesia 
International Union for Conservation of Nature
... and small island developing States through its regional offices. Its overall programme of work focuses on valuing ... Currently, IUCN has a project portfolio amounting to USD 330 million in grants. It is estimated that half of this ... but also to contribute to enhancing their capacity to ensure that they have direct access to multilateral funding. ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), International Switzerland
FP258 - Multi-country Project Advancing Early Warnings for All (EW4All)
Worldwide, vulnerable communities face increasing risks due to the growing intensity, geographic extent and frequency of ... the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), International ... actors across the climate information and early warnings value chain. GCF's Project Preparation Facility (PPF) ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries 
Thematic brief: Agriculture and food security
... for past climates. Hence, farming and food systems need to be transformed across the globe to build resilience to ... food and nutritional security will be challenging, but it offers opportunities for enhancing climate resilience, ... loss; creating millions of new jobs by improving value chains in agriculture; improving nutrition; reducing ...
Document > Thematic brief
Green Climate Fund Board maintains climate momentum in midst of COVID-19 by approving USD 878.8 million of new funds
... Fund (GCF) continues empowering developing countries to take climate action in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic ... its allocation of USD 878.8 million in new financing at its 26th Board meeting, which wound up today. The 26th Board ... Based Payments for Results Period 2014-2016 with UNDP (FP130) USD 27.4 million for Improving Climate Resilience of ...
Article > Press release 
GCF boosts SIDS early warning systems to avert climate-related disasters
A GCF event at COP26 brought together a panel of international and national ... Island Developing States – Bridging the Capacity Gap by 2030” that GCF has become the largest financier of early ... rainfall in 24 hours than London receives in a year. The UNFCCC established GCF in 2010 to provide financial support ...
Article > News update 
Direct financing for communities and businesses to respond to climate change in the Cook Islands
The Cook Islands are expected to incur, on average, about USD 5 million per year (2% of ... The project will be driven by the new 2019 building code standard with mainstreamed resilience measures against cyclones, storm surge, floods and drought. ...
Document > Concept note Cook Islands
Work programme of the Secretariat for 2022 and administrative budget
... the programme as adopted by the Board in decision B.30/07, paragraph (b). The programme was sent to the Board for consideration at B.30 in document ... programme of the Secretariat and annual administrative budget of the GCF Secretariat, Board and Trustee”. All ...
Document > Work programme and budget