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Country commitments and ambitions
... principles of GCF. One of our operational priorities is to ensure that the we are responsive to the needs and priorities ... Paris Agreement shows that countries are ready to work together in response. But the targets, priorities, and ...
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Readiness: Learn more
Opportunities to learn more Upcoming information sessions Event ... title Tentative planned date* * The dates are subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances or other influencing factors. We ...
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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 
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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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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 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 ...
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Green Climate Fund strengthens regional private sector programming
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) started 2026 with another significant reform that will strengthen the mobilization of private sector finance in support of countries’ national climate ... The move – on the back of last year’s record $3.26 billion of project approvals – reaffirms private ...
Article > Press release 
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 
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, ...
Article > Insights 
Green Climate Fund and the International Development Finance Club signs a Statement of Partnership to join forces in fighting climate change
The International Development Finance Club (IDFC), the international network of leading national and ... Climate Fund (GCF) have signed a Partnership Statement to become strategic partners and serve the Paris Agreement ... climate finance and alignment with the Paris agreement. Together, the GCF and IDFC engage in redirecting financial ...
Article > Press release 
GCF signs public-private partnership agreements to launch Global Subnational Climate Fund
... in an innovative bundling of public-private financing to plug a funding gap for sub-national climate initiatives. ... the Global Subnational Climate Fund (SnCF Global), created to address a major deficit in climate finance. The ... private institutional investors, ensuring climate support gets where it is most needed,” he said. “Nearly half of ...
Article > Press release 
Driving rapid climate action: 10 new projects ready for delivery
... for rapid delivery. Steps were accelerated by the Fund to get projects out-the-door as quickly as possible upon their ... with a project in Bhutan moving from Board approval to FAA signing to first disbursement in just one day and a ...
Article > News update 
PSAA overview
... Assessment Approach (PSAA) Pilot is one of two approaches to GCF accreditation , approved through updates to the ... framework will be presented to the GCF Board in late 2026 to inform a decision on its continuation, ... process should consult with the GCF Secretariat to get guidance on which accreditation method might best suit ...
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GCF at COP28: A wrap up of outcomes at COP28
... renewable energy capacity and double energy efficiency by 2030. Demonstrating progress in adaptation and finance, ... all eyes will be on Azerbaijan, which was announced as the official host of COP29 from 11-22 November next year. ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), GCF takes guidance from the Conference of Parties ...
Article > News update 
FP141 - Improving Adaptive Capacity and Risk Management of Rural communities in Mongolia
... past 70 years. The country’s vast pastureland and livestock production are facing mounting challenges due to a ... management and support climate resilience of 930,000 people in Mongolia’s most vulnerable sector and ... livestock policy. FP141 Mongolia 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 264 452 656 827 Improving Adaptive Capacity and Risk ...
Project > Public sector Mongolia 
FP193 - Peruvian Amazon Eco Bio Business Facility (Amazon EBBF)
Peru is home to a large carbon stock in its diverse ecosystems, including the Amazon ... community-based eco-bio-businesses (EBBs). EBBs obtain value from the sustainable use of forest resources through ...
Project > Public sector Peru 
Why financial inclusion is so critical to climate resilience
Why financial inclusion is so critical to climate resilience ...
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