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GCF/B.42/Inf.05 - Reports from committees, panels and groups of the Board of the Green Climate Fund
... activities that have already been conducted or are planned to be undertaken by the following committees and panels of ... Fund during the reporting period from 1 January 2025 to 30 May 2025. (a) Accreditation Committee (b) Accreditation ... (c) Ad hoc Committee on Human Resources Matters (d) Budget Committee (e) Ethics and Audit Committee (f) Independent ...
Board document > Information
Making blended finance work for nature-based solutions
... that they are intimately linked. One effective solution is to use nature-based solutions which can address the climate ... degradation and biodiversity loss, as well as contribute to addressing a variety of social issues, such as water ... solutions have enormous potential, however they are greatly underfunded. Thus, there is an urgent need to ...
Document > Working paper
A Message from Mafalda Duarte, GCF’s Executive Director
It is with great honour and a profound sense of responsibility that I step into my new role today as Executive Director of the Green ... I can, and working with all stakeholders, to ensure GCF delivers unprecedented impact with speed, scale, ...
Article > Statement 
Luxembourg and GCF meet to discuss climate finance mobilization
... Dieschbourg, and the Green Climate Fund Executive Director a.i., Mr. Javier Manzanares, met to discuss the Fund’s ... to international climate finance, which is additional to Official Development Assistance, amounting to USD 230 per capita.” continued the Minister. “Luxembourg ...
Article > Press release Luxembourg 
Developing a GHG and SLCP monitoring network for enhanced compliance & enforcement of emission standards and improved climate change reporting
... in Kenya is greatly hindered by the limited capacity to continuously monitor ambient air pollution, which limits ... improve on the Country's reporting obligations to the UNFCCC. To effectively achieve this, the project adopts a ... all the stakeholders. The implementation approach will ensure the sustainability of the project beyond the project ...
Document > Concept note Kenya
In memoriam: Daniel Machado da Fonseca
... a Board member on 1 January 2024. With climate close to his heart, he helped organise the UN Conference on ... the Trade and Investments Department. Dedicating his life to public service, he was a career diplomat for over ... loved ones, friends, and colleagues. We will miss him greatly. In memoriam: Daniel Machado da Fonseca ...
Article > Statement 
HSBC Holdings plc and its subsidiaries
... commercial bank headquartered in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. With a history of over 150 years, the international network of HSBC ... as to act as an educator, via its climate change centre, offering a dedicated research capability focusing on the ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), International United Kingdom
Agreement bolstering Africa’s climate vulnerable sign of rapid GCF implementation
... Climate Fund (GCF) has signed an implementation agreement to scale up climate action across 13 African countries soon ... (IFAD), empowers African national and local banks to direct funds to help farmers cope with increasingly ... from climate effects while also contributing to Africa’s Great Green Wall initiative to reverse land ...
Article > News update 
Consultation Sessions on the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) Project Preparation Facility (PPF)
... Fund (GCF) was established in 2015 with the objective to provide funding for the preparation of GCF funding proposals, especially those targeting small-scale activities and Direct Access Entities ... at the following times: Session 1 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Korea Standard Time (KST) Monday, 30 January 2023 ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
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 ... assets, and investment that addresses distributional trade-offs. The COVID-19 pandemic has further increased the ... lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP26 in November. This virtual round table discussed the ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Indigenous Peoples
... of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Indigenous Peoples have invaluable and critical contributions to make to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Yet ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including in the Cancun Agreement. The preamble of ...
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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+ results-based payments for consideration by the Board.
Board document > Action item
Fourteen new Country Platforms announced in collaboration with GCF to drive country-led climate solutions
... was made at a high-level ministerial event during COP30, co-hosted by Brazil’s Ministry of Finance and GCF. The ... brought together ministers and other senior government officials as well as international, national, public, and ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and serves the 2015 Paris Agreement. To fulfil its ...
Article > Press release Brazil 
Privacy statement
Changes to our privacy statement Please note that we have updated ... 14 February 2020. What has been changed? The changes to our Privacy Statement are as follows: GCF will now accept ... are considered vexatious or frivolous, or where disclosure of the information might prejudice the privacy rights ...
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Themes & result areas
Themes Our work aims to support paradigm shifts in both climate mitigation and ... over time. Adaptation Climate change adaptation aims to improve resilience of communities and ecosystems to climate change. Mitigation Climate change mitigation ...
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GCF sets funding proposal schedule for B.21 [Updated]
... meeting date. The timeline lists key dates leading to the Board meeting, where the 24 Board members decide on ... and the key dates are as following: B.21 timeline: Disclosure of ESS reports for categories A and I-1 (high ... projects – 14 September 2018 Publishing deadline – 26 September 2018 B.21 – 17-20 October 2018 For any ...
Article > Press release 
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 four-day ... aims to maintain GCF’s balanced financial support for measures that reduce emissions and enhance climate resilience. ... and Board committees, panels and groups; guidance from COP26 ; status of GCF resources, pipeline and portfolio ...
Article > Press release 
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 ... Maldives, Nepal and Tonga. GCF also has provided USD 130,000 in Readiness assistance, the second part of a USD ... the Pacific Community ( SPC ), an organization governed by 26 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) that coordinates ...
Article > Press release Mauritania Rwanda 
GCF Webinar on Portfolio Performance Management System (PPMS)
On 26 January 2021 the GCF Secretariat launched the Portfolio ... a centralised portfolio management system, which aims to increase the efficiency of monitoring and managing performance and risks in GCF ...
Event > Webinar 
GCF/B.34/Inf.14 - Report on the execution of the 2022 administrative budget of GCF
... on the execution of the GCF 2022 administrative budget for the period from 1 January to 31 August 2022 and the budget approved for the second ... of USD 1.3 million for the second performance review (26 per cent of the approved budget). These figures do not ...
Board document > Information
Ministers call for successful GCF replenishment at HLPF
... Climate Fund in Implementing the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda”, brought together a number of political leaders and senior government officials from developing and developed countries, GCF ... of the International Development Finance Club (IDFC), with which GCF recently signed a partnership agreement, ...
Article > Press release Norway Rwanda 
European Investment Bank and Green Climate Fund sign partnership agreement
... signed an Accreditation Master Agreement, allowing them to work together to finance climate action in developing countries. ... of total lending (In 2016, climate action represented over 26 percent of the total lending, or EUR 19.5 billion). In ...
Article > Press release 
GCF, UNDP and WHO join forces to ramp up climate health support for developing countries
... that will ramp up support for developing countries to mitigate and respond to the impacts of climate change on ... nexus. To address this gap, GCF, UNDP and WHO have come together in a crosscutting partnership and committed funding ... countries to implement their health commitments made at COP26 and through the WHO's Alliance for Transformative Action ...
Article > News update 
Niue launches community of practice to accelerate climate action in the Pacific
... community will invigorate knowledge sharing and learning to build national capacity through programming with GCF and ... launched its Strategic Framework and Country Programme (SFCP), Readiness Needs Assessment, and Standard Operating ... lines of climate change, and we are trying our best to ensure our survival in the future.” GCF’s Readiness ...
Article > News update Niue 
GCF's first REDD+ results-based payment boosts financial incentive to protect forests
... 2014 and 2015 shows the concept of REDD+ is starting to pay off for countries stepping up efforts to halt deforestation. ... point in helping turn REDD+ from a topic of years of UNFCCC negotiations into payments for achievement of past ... and restoring native vegetation. They will also include measures to prevent illegal deforestation. REDD+ refers to the ...
Article > Press release Brazil 
Focus on adaptation planning at COP 23, surge in requests for GCF support
Uncertainty should not be a pretext for putting off preventative action, a leading UN figure in adaptation ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). “We are dealing with uncertainty all the time in ... are seeking this support,” said Mr Jarju. “We want to ensure the use of adaptation planning funds from GCF is ...
Article > Press release 
GCF ensures Indigenous Peoples play a key role in climate action
... in northern Pakistan are drawing on traditional knowledge to grow their own. The art of growing, or “grafting” ... the site with mud, ash and charcoal before closing it off with stones. While glacier grafting is not expected to ... global glacial loss, it can act as an effective adaptive measure against climate change by improving the future ...
Article > Press release 
Climate change hurting the poor, Mali President says in call for action
... Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta called for a united approach to tackle the inequalities of climate change at GCF's ... Africa, which concludes today. "We are all determined together to overcome climate change, which is not only ... of this funding is accelerating the current regional take off in renewables. This includes GCF financing in off-grid ...
Article > Press release Mali 
Social protection: Investing in reform and resilience
... ecosystems, soils and biodiversity, they share a story of climate vulnerability. But more importantly, they ... is a smart climate action investment. More than just getting investment out the door, if we’re focused on ... investments can strategically build in social protection measures from the project ideation stage to deliver measurable, ...
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