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... in Central America. It is home to 11.5 million rural people who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Unfortunately, the region is highly vulnerable to climate change due to erratic rainfall patterns, ... Corridor is one of the world’s most exposed and vulnerable regions to climate change. In El Salvador, freshwater ...

In the majestic landscapes of Northern Pakistan, a silent catastrophe is unfolding. Rising temperatures have ... lakes pose a significant risk of flooding events, capable of unleashing devastation upon the land and its people. ... gabion walls, check dams, and irrigation channels, all designed to divert and manage the immense volumes of water ...

... garden is essential to her family’s food security. She describes how an increase in rain is ruining her crops.   ... a reduction in food crop harvest in my garden. The vegetables grow well when we plant them, but then insects and rain ... changes to the beach skirting her village. “Now the sea level is very high too. Our sea shore has eroded. Where we ...

Mexico is experiencing more frequent droughts, unpredictable rainfall, and increasing temperatures, which in turn are ... The Latin American nation’s glaciers are melting, while rapid urbanisation has outpaced water infrastructure ... nitrogen fertiliser becomes a contaminant carrying pesticides, fertilisers, animal waste, and sediments into rivers ...

... for evacuation. And even on calm days, saltwater seeps silently into the land, corroding house foundations and ... always enters this area,” says Labrada, aged 65, who has led the community council here for more than a decade. ... and the mangroves are deforested.” Over the past few decades, climate-related risks along Cuba’s coastline have ...

... Drought Emergencies” is a GCF-backed project that tackles drought and extreme weather events in Kenya. Katarzyna Lesiuk from GCF’s Africa Regional team conducted a project ... rather than spent. The group’s financial plan includes purchasing automated equipment to make harvesting more ...

... Journalists, filmmakers, advertisers, creators, business leaders, and policymakers can all contribute to the climate ... focused on how different communicators view their roles in the climate crisis, the impact they can make, the policies needed from leaders, and what changes are necessary to drive faster ...

In the north of Colombia, in a region called La Mojana, three of the country’s most important ... is seeing more prolonged dry periods and more intense episodes of flooding as a result of stronger and more ... on track to complete the 5-year programme with UAIIN by 2026. The project has also been working with the Alexander Von ...

... five projects were immediately signed between GCF and its Accredited Entity (AE) partners at a signing ceremony on 20 ... to increase the Fund’s efficiency and impact. This includes expediting the process for the negotiation and signing ... and the Accredited Entity (AE) for the project to begin implementation. The projects set for implementation include ...

... GCF Board member. “I think this decision of the GCF is a clear application and entry into action of article 5.2 of the ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) currently convening in Bonn, Germany. Article 5 of the ... This is the third and final phase of REDD+ which provides assurance to funding providers that their finances ...

Climate finance plays a key role in helping poor people who are most vulnerable to climate change, senior ... country by extreme weather events during the past two decades. Philippines (the) Manila Climate finance should include ...

Although the African continent is responsible for only three per cent of the world's human-induced ... effects of climate change. In Swahili,  KawiSafi means “clean energy.” Created and developed by the impact investor ... distributed energy infrastructure, KawiSafi provides critical essential services and enhanced productivity to ...

The Maldives, known as a luxury holiday destination with crystal blue water, is an idyllic island ... Island Developing State (SIDS) is one of the most vulnerable nations to climate change and faces many unique challenges. Rising sea levels and increasingly erratic rainfall ...

... backed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are on track for implementation, with two projects setting record times for rapid delivery. Steps were accelerated by the Fund to get projects out-the-door as quickly ... that contains conditions to be fulfilled by the GCF Accredited Entity (AE) and must be negotiated and signed by ...

... only institutional and systems strengthening but also knowledge sharing within countries and across regions. ... not an end in itself; it is a milestone that enables our accredited partners to access broader climate finance to ... Develop and submit two concept notes to GCF; and Design and pilot a greenhouse gas accounting tool, supported ...

... announcements by Germany and Norway that they will double their commitment to the Fund, GCF’s COP24 side event ... , reviewing the achievements of the Fund, and the challenges ahead. A high-profile panel of speakers, including ministers from Germany, ...

The GCF high level side event today featured calls to action from ... and encouragement to greater ambition for the GCF replenishment from Germany and Norway in particular. GCF's ... the Fund's achievements to date, and its ambitions for replenishment. GCF Executive Director a.i. Javier Manzanares ...

... with events on climate resilience, and climate rationale as well as negotiations, signings and lots of meetings. ... Midway through week two of the COP seems to be when delegates are really feeling the pace, and tiredness sets in. ... and also on the guidance to GCF for next year, which is reflecting some of the more general tensions at this year's ...

It’s all about the finance! That was the plea from NGOs this morning at COP24, ahead of the high level Ministerial dialogue on climate finance. Many delegates here are focusing on this issue, and GCF offered its ...

GCF has a strong focus on the role of the private sector today in Katowice. Colleagues from GCF's Private Sector Facility led an event on ... the Paris Agreement are made by governments, there is widespread agreement that it will take a massive injection of ...

... text on future climate finance flows being particularly relevant to GCF in light of its current replenishment process. Article 9 of the Paris Agreement states ... an operating entity of the financial mechanism to the UNFCCC, GCF will certainly play a key role - whichever way the ...

... Board members and alternate Board members are now being selected within constituencies and regional groups before the current three-year term of the Board concludes at the end of this year. The GCF Board, consisting of 24 ... start on 1 January 2019 and end on 31 December 2021. The selection process takes place in the frame of the ...

... activities in relation to prohibited practices. The MoU complements the Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) with SANBI, which contains a clause requiring the Accredited Entity to provide IIU with reasonable assistance in ...

Prominent Jamaican legal practitioner Douglas Leys is the Green Climate Fund's new General Counsel. Mr ... Mr Leys' broad experience in commercial law includes acting as the CDB lead advisor in providing legal ...

... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The five-year pilot marks a major milestone for the Fund’s support of REDD+. This is a UNFCCC ... of forest carbon stocks (known in shorthand as REDD+). Accredited Entities are invited to submit concept notes and ...

... to Prohibited Practices . The recently signed MoU complements the Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) with CABEI, which contains a clause requiring the Accredited Entity to provide the IIU with reasonable ...

... the gender dimension to climate finance, examining challenges of financing women-centred climate actions, as well ... with UN Women. Executive Director Bamsey also shared examples from GCF's project portfolio with particular gender ... XacBank that focuses particularly upon providing favourable financial terms to women-led Mongolian MSMEs, an African ...

... of low lying islands take greater control of their destinies, the Executive Director of the Micronesia ... planet,” said Mr Kostka during the signing of an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA). MCT is one of GCF’s ... keen to support societies that are highly vulnerable, such as the Pacific islands where MCT is focusing its ...

... will consider a number of funding proposals from its Accredited Entities. GCF currently has a project portfolio of ... civil society and private sector organisations, National Designated Authorities (NDAs), which are the national ... of Board meetings are live-streamed on the GCF website . Egypt Cairo GCF Board meets in Egypt to develop ...