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GCF Board meets in Egypt to develop project portfolio, consider new accreditations
The Green Climate Fund Board opens its eighteenth meeting today. ... will consider a number of funding proposals from its Accredited Entities. GCF currently has a project portfolio of ... of Board meetings are live-streamed on the GCF website . Egypt Cairo GCF Board meets in Egypt to develop ...
Article > Press release Egypt 
GCF helps Vanuatu smooth climate finance path
The Green Climate Fund has disbursed USD 296,000 to Vanuatu to increase this vulnerable island country’s capacity to access climate finance. ... Small Island Developing State is one of the most vulnerable countries to disasters which can be exacerbated by ...
Article > Press release Vanuatu 
Caribbean countries convene in Belize for GCF regional dialogue
... She encouraged developing countries and GCF Accredited Entities to bring projects and programmes to the ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Welcoming participants on behalf of the Government of ... country ownership, and the Private Sector Facility (PSF) to mobilise institutional investors and leverage GCF’s funds ...
Article > Press release Belize 
Green Climate Fund Board meeting kicks off in Songdo
The Green Climate Fund Board opened its 16th meeting today at GCF ... GCF’s proposal approval process; the process for the selection of the Permanent Trustee; GCF’s accreditation framework and policy; and updates on Readiness ...
Article > Press release 
Samoa grants Privileges and Immunities status to GCF
The Government of the Independent State of Samoa today signed an ... Green Climate Fund to provide the organisation with Privileges and Immunities. The agreement was signed on the ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), governments recommended that Parties to the UNFCCC ...
Article > Press release Samoa 
GCF approves first grants for National Adaptation Planning in Liberia and Nepal
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) today announced the approval of its first grants ... 2.2 million with UNDP acting as its delivery partner to implement its NAPs activities, whilst Nepal will receive a ... and Javier Manzanares, Executive Director a.i., at a high-level event convened by the President of COP22, H.E. ...
Article > Press release Liberia Nepal 
Board to consider committing USD 788 million in project proposals and recruiting new ED at B.14 meeting
The fourteenth meeting of the GCF Board commences today at the ... totaling USD 787.8 million. The Board will also work to select a new Executive Director of the GCF Secretariat. The ... to the Acumen Fund, one of the 33 entities that have been accredited to GCF to date. This was a capital contribution to ...
Article > Press release 
Baton passes in GCF Secretariat Leadership
... by the GCF Board at its June meeting and takes up the role following the conclusion of the term of the current ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with the goal of supporting climate resilient and low ... development in developing countries. To date, the Fund has mobilised more than USD 10 billion in resources and ...
Article > Press release 
Request for Proposals: GCF Funding Modalities
During its 13th Meeting, 28-30 June 2016, the GCF Board endorsed a Request for Proposals (RFP) to identify qualified ... financial institutions that will undertake the design, implementation and management of strong, high-impact projects ... African States. Countries are invited to work with both accredited direct access entities and potential entities to ...
Article > Press release 
New web features bring partners and projects in focus
The GCF website has received several significant updates to make its ... and project size. A new Project section provides a detailed overview of all projects approved by the GCF Board to ... Looking to the Fund’s partners, a new section for Accredited Entities provides a one-stop overview of the public ...
Article > Press release 
GCF introduces live web-streaming of Board meetings
The upcoming 13th meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board will be live web-cast to enable the broader GCF stakeholder community to follow the ... The link to the web-cast will be available on the GCF website ahead of the meeting and communicated through a ...
Article > Press release 
President of Senegal calls for adequate resources for GCF
His Excellency Macky Sall, President of Senegal, today used his address to the plenary of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties to highlight the importance ...
Article > Press release Senegal 
Pres. Hollande calls for rich countries to step up efforts on climate finance during Korea visit
French President Francois Hollande has called for more climate finance from developed countries, alongside greater climate technology exchanges, ...
Article > Press release France Republic of Korea (the) 
Zambia Board meeting opens with funding proposals on the table
The eleventh meeting of the Green Climate Fund Board has opened in Livingstone, Zambia. The meeting ... Paris COP later this month. "We need to make the Fund a viable Partner to all countries, so that we can support the ...
Article > Press release Zambia 
Participation of the GCF Executive Director in the Climate Finance Ministerial meeting, Lima
On 9 October 2015, the Green Climate Fund Executive Director addressed the High-Level Climate Finance Ministerial meeting at the 2015 Annual ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is scaled up substantially and on an ongoing basis. ...
Article > Press release 
GCF aims to support increased climate ambition at climate negotiations
GCF is holding a side event during the UNFCCC climate talks on Friday to discuss how an ambitious replenishment of GCF will support increased commitments in the ...
Article > Press release Germany 
The Maldives and GCF strengthen legal partnership
The Government of the Republic of Maldives has signed an agreement with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) granting the Fund privileges and immunities in line with those of other ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), governments recommended that Parties to the UNFCCC ...
Article > Press release Maldives 
On World Environment Day, women are bringing new life to Colombia’s wetlands
Local women are leading the restoration of north Colombian wetlands to reverse degradation from decades of unsustainable farming. Bringing life back to this vital ecosystem in ...
Article > Story Colombia 
Where do we stand with NDCs: Enhancing action on climate change in 2020
... (Madrid, 2019) re-emphasized with serious concern the urgent need to address the significant gap between the ... temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature ... to prepare new/updated NDCs and communicate these to the UNFCCC secretariat by 2020. This represents a major ...
Event > Upcoming engagement 
GCF Programming Manual
Following the announcement of the GCF Programming Manual , the webinar will allow ... origination, development, appraisal, approval and implementation. The GCF Programming Manual provides an overview ... including national designated authorities and accredited entities. It also offers guidance on how to prepare ...
Event > Webinar 
Introduction to Simplified Approval Process and the Private Sector
This virtual side event of the third annual GCF Private Investment for Climate ... participants with an understanding on how countries, GCF accredited entities and partners proposing private sector ... the Fiji Development Bank in Fiji. Participants will be able to ask questions, share their views, comments and ...
Event > Webinar 
International Financial Institutions Knowledge Management Workshop
The Green Climate Fund (GCF)’s Head of Knowledge and Change Management, ... for the International Financial Institutions Knowledge Management Community of Practice. As such, GCF is ...
Event > Webinar 
GCF Programming Webinar for Asia
... for national designated authorities (NDA) and direct access entities (DAE) of the Asian countries to engage in a technical discussion on programming and resources available through Readiness the Preparatory Support Programme ...
Event > Webinar 
27th GCF Board meeting opens: over USD 1 billion in climate finance projects to be considered
The 27th Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting begins today. The ... consider approving 16 project proposals which would collectively invest over USD 1 billion for climate action ... as well as making decisions on the accreditation of four new partners to propose and implement ...
Article > Press release 
Introductory webinar on the GCF Sectoral Guide: Cities, Buildings and Urban Systems
In connection with the GCF Sectoral Guides Consultation launched on 9 November 2020, this webinar will present the draft GCF Sectoral Guide on Cities, Buildings and ... needs and evidence-based programming experiences in the relevant sector. It also aims to identify opportunities for ...
Event > Webinar 
Open dialogue on the development of the GCF Enhancing Direct Access Guidelines
... (WRI) in partnership with the GCF. This webinar aims to engage partners involved in locally led climate action, including GCF’s accredited entities and NDAs/Focal Points, in an open ...
Event > Webinar 
Locally-led climate action with the GCF: the Enhancing Direct Access (EDA) Pilot
The session is organized by the International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) as part of ... Global Conference, in partnership with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) on 21 January 2021 at 12:00 BST / 15:00 KST. This session aims to engage partners involved in locally led climate action in an open discussion about the GCF’s ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
GCF Webinars on Accredited Entity-level reporting on the Digital Accreditation Platform (DAP)
... 1 January 2021, the GCF Secretariat launched the Digital Accreditation Platform (DAP) – a one-stop shop for Accredited Entities (AEs) to address all stages in the lifecycle related to accreditation - for AEs to submit online their ...
Event > Webinar 
Training Workshop on the Methodology for establishing a baseline of greenhouse gas emissions and climate resilience for the portfolio of accredited entities (AEs)
... of the Methodology for establishing a baseline of greenhouse gas emissions and climate resilience for the portfolio of accredited entities (AEs) presented at the B.28, the Green ... (GCF) Entities Team is organizing a training workshop for relevant stakeholders, to be held on 8 April 2021 at the ...
Event > Webinar 
Introductory webinar on the draft GCF Sectoral Guide: Ecosystem & Ecosystem Services
... with the Draft GCF Sectoral Guides Consultation launched on 30 March 2021 to 30 June 2021, this webinar will present the draft GCF Sectoral Guide on Ecosystem & Ecosystem ... needs and evidence-based programming experiences in the relevant sector. It also aims to identify opportunities for ...
Event > Webinar 