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GCF and Acumen sign agreement to promote resilient agriculture in East and West Africa
... projects in East and West Africa. GCF has committed USD 26 million to Acumen aimed at ensuring long-term sustainable ... Novogratz, Acumen’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer. “The project’s ultimate goal is to help African ... parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and given the mandate to fund climate action to limit ...
Article > Press release 
GCF heralds innovative ‘Bhutan for Life’ partnership at launch ceremony
... Green Climate Fund announced a USD 43 million partnership to permanently preserve Bhutan’s protected areas, which ... the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). GCF’s contribution of USD 26.6 million was approved by its Board last month to support ... sink. Bhutan for Life will also support adaptation measures to improve the resilience of rural Bhutanese ...
Article > Press release Bhutan 
A sliver of hope from the middle of the Pacific Ocean
... atoll nation of Tuvalu, where half of the country’s 11,300 inhabitants live. This was my first mission as a ... a country whose total land mass across nine islands is only 26 square kilometres. The new land is the largest safe zone ... countries, and plans are afoot to construct government offices, houses, recreational areas, and other critical ...
Article > Insights 
GCF partners with FAO on two major climate-resilience projects in Benin and the Gambia
... both projects. Welcoming the projects, GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec said: “GCF is proud to partner with ... and water management in 95,000 hectares, and reduce over 330,000 small-scale farmers' vulnerability to increasing ... and coastal ecosystems. And so, it was a delight to get this project brought forward with the support of FAO.” ...
Article > News update Benin Gambia 
COP27 summit host Egypt is first country to adopt Climate Investment Plan in partnership with Green Climate Fund
... have announced that Egypt will be the first country to adopt a Climate Investment Plan – a move which could ... seeing how we can engage more and more the private sector together with governments, to finance climate change projects ... project-by-project basis, the investment planning approach offers the potential to move well-designed proposals through ...
Article > Press release Egypt 
GCF’s 2024-2027 Strategic Plan sets out greater ambitions and results for critical global climate action
... programming directions for GCF-2, capturing the ambition to deliver both strengthened climate results and greater access for developing countries as the world heads ... countries to GCF finance. It sets a comprehensive set of targeted results to be delivered over the 2024 to 2027 ...
Article > News update 
The Green Climate Fund, the Global Partnership for Education and Save the Children launch the world’s largest investment for green schools at COP28
... weather,” said Laura Frigenti, GPE Chief Executive Officer. “To address this daunting challenge, we all need ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and serves the 2015 Paris Agreement, supporting the ... safety nets, so they don’t have to take desperate measures like pulling children out of school or force their ...
Article > Press release 
Pacific Islander voices: living on the frontlines of the climate crisis
... have already arrived on her island, and she’s driven to have her voice heard. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is ... closely on the ground with communities across the Pacific to help them act against climate change. We asked Mary how ... caused a reduction in food crop harvest in my garden. The vegetables grow well when we plant them, but then insects and ...
Article > Story 
Turning down the heat
In Bangladesh, over 33 million children are forced to stay home for days as the sweltering heat makes school ... full-time jobs are expected to fall by the wayside by 2030 due to extreme heat. While the science and statistics are ... thermally efficient design and construction, passive measures that limit heat entering a building, and efficient air ...
Article > Story Bangladesh 
Peruvian Trust Fund for National Parks and Protected Areas
... and an environmental fund located in Peru. Its mandate is to provide stable and long-term funding as well as to develop and implement innovative strategies for ... and international levels with donors have allowed it to address climate change issues such as deforestation and ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), Direct (National) Peru
Selection process of GCF Board for 2019-2021 membership underway
... and regional groups, whose chairs and coordinators have been invited to notify the GCF Secretariat the names of the selected Board members and alternate Board members by 30 September 2018. According to paragraph 11 of the ...
Article > Press release 
XacBank first Mongolian bank to finance renewable energy
... Mongolian bank. The FAA covers a USD 17.6 million project to build Mongolia’s second large-scale solar plant with a ... meeting, last month. Mongolia is committed to generating 30 percent of the country’s power using renewable energy by 2030, as part of its climate action plan under the Paris ...
Article > Press release Mongolia 
GCF convenes its 42nd Board meeting in Papua New Guinea
... meeting (B.42) in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, from 30 June to 3 July 2025. The GCF Secretariat has proposed a slate of 19 climate projects to the Board for consideration, amounting to a record total ...
Article > News update 
Multilateral climate funds publishes first joint results report
... the clearest view yet of how combined efforts translate into tangible progress across four shared results areas: ... reporting, and a determination for the funds to work together more strategically. * The report was launched at COP30 in Belém on November 18, 2025. Multilateral climate ...
Article > News update 
Climate costs will rise sharply if we miss 1.5 degree target, GCF conference hears
... is a moral obligation, while inadequate action leading to global temperatures over 1.5 degrees Celsius will come ... second day of the Global NDA conference, which brought together representatives of 74 developing countries, including ... pathways of development. Bill Hare, Chief Executive Officer of Climate Analytics, said countries are already ...
Article > Press release 
GCF approves eight projects at its first Board meeting in 2017
... Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting of 2017 concluded today by approving eight new projects and programmes valued ... projects and programmes were approved at B.16: USD 265 million for the GEEREF NeXt programme financing ... the Ground Water Recharge and Solar Micro Irrigation to Ensure Food Security and Enhance Resilience in Vulnerable ...
Article > Press release 
Financing ambition and the future we want
... distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon to everyone. On behalf of the Green Climate Fund, I would ... national, global and financial leaders consider stimulus measures to revive economies, the world is at a major turning ... communities. Developing countries will suffer the greatest human toll and economic damage from the global ...
Article > Speech
Support for accreditation gap assessment and action plan for the Rwanda Development Bank
... is a Public Company Limited by Shares, registered at the Officer of the Registrar General of Rwanda. For more than ... of different productive en- terprises in the private sector. It aims to be an innovative and sustainable provider of ... development that offers financial solutions for enhanced value to our stakeholders. Its strategic pillars are diverse ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Rwanda
Mitigation and adaptation to climate change under agroforestry systems in cocoa production in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest biomes
... increased in recent years. The objective of the project is to reduce and reverse the trend of deforestation and ... will provide detailed understanding of climate hazard, exposure, and vulnerability of cocoa farmers. The observed ... the Logical framework, including project, baselines and targets, indicators, the assessment of the project against GCF ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Brazil
GCF highlights success in mobilising finance to deliver climate action
Executive Director Howard Bamsey highlighted the ability of the Green Climate Fund to scale-up, innovate, and deliver climate finance in his ... private sector investments at scale. GCF has shortlisted 30 of those proposals with the potential to leverage over ...
Article > Press release France 
Guyana signs grant agreement with GCF in Paris
Guyana today signed a readiness grant agreement with the Green ... of the Parties (COP). The funding will provide USD 300,000 to Guyana to help the country build capacity to ... A minimum of 50 per cent of readiness support is targeted at Small Island Developing States (SIDS) such as ...
Article > Press release Guyana 
Entity Support support for Seychelles through the Indian Ocean Commission
In 2015, the 30th Council of Ministers of IOC requested that the Secretariat seeks accreditation to the GCF (decision 21b) and reiterate the request in ... its members states countries, re‐ stricting their ability to prepare and implement climate change projects. It should ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Seychelles
GCF Technical Expert Meeting on Climate Information, Early Warning and Disaster Risk Reduction Services
GCF recognizes that significant investment is needed to build climate information, early warning, and disaster risk reduction services in order to support countries adapt to the impacts of climate change ... sector strategy and guide. The meeting was attended by over 30 technical experts who provided substantial inputs with ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Switzerland 
Desert to Power G5 Sahel Facility
In response to the Sahel countries for support, AfDB seeks to assist ... of up to USD 340 million GCF financing that leverages USD 430 million from AfDB and an additional USD 480 million ... for low emissions power projects for both on-grid and off-grid solar projects to the benefit of over 30 million ...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries
Innovation is imperative, GCF tells Leaders Climate Summit
'Innovation is imperative to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement'. That was the message from GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec, speaking to the Leaders' Summit on ... models and financing instruments throughout its USD 30 billion climate portfolio, split equally between ...
Article > Press release 
Post-approval environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP100: REDD-PLUS results-based payments for results achieved by Brazil in the Amazon biome in 2014 and 2015
... that have environmental or social impacts are required to provide these reports as annexes to the funding ... Programme (UNDP), informed the Secretariat of its disclosure of environmental and social safeguards information ... the Funded Activity Agreement states: "(m) At least thirty (30) calendar days prior to the delivery of Floresta+ pilot ...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Brazil
Supporting the Creation of “REDD+ Catalytic Fund” pipeline of projects (Multiple countries)
Even though forests represent 30% of earth’s land, it will only take 100 years or less to witness their disappearance. A major consequence is the ... of the REDD+ Catalytic Fund (R+CF) to comply with the UNFCCC, GCF, and Congo Basin objectives; Design a procedure ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
GCF/B.33/10 - Updates on addressing gaps in the current portfolio for measurement
... updates under Phase I of the remediation activities to address the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) gaps in the current portfolio for measurement. The remediation exercise will improve the quality ... action no later than the thirtieth meeting of the Board (B.30) or through between Board meetings. Due to the changes in ...
Board document > Action item
Readiness Support for the Implementation of the IRMF for Alternative Energy Promotion Centre
... cooking solutions” (CCS) approved by the GCF Board at B.30. The proposed Readiness Support for the Implementation of ... GCF result architecture as per the IRMF. In addition to capacitating AEPC to develop a pipeline of projects in alignment with the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Nepal
High-level Pledging Conference for GCF's second replenishment (GCF-2)
... architecture, as part of the financial mechanism of the UNFCCC and in serving the Paris Agreement. GCF supports ... . Recording Rewatch the event below: Agenda 08:30 - 09:00 Registration and coffee 09:00 - 09:15 Opening of the conference Opening ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 