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XacBank, a Green Climate Fund (GCF) Accredited Entity, is helping Mongolia forge a new sustainable phase in its economic growth by holding the bank’s ...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Pacific Structured Dialogue will take place in ... from Pacific Island countries with the GCF’s implementing partners, private sector organizations, civil ... to climate impacts and tapping the potential for renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions. A number of these ...

The Government of the Kingdom of Tonga has signed an agreement with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to grant privileges and immunities to GCF. The agreement was signed in ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Parties recommended to enter into bilateral ...

The 17th meeting of the Green Climate Fund Board opens today, with a major goal to ... act as the main national conduits to the Fund, as well as Accredited Entities and other Partners that assist in ... the GCF Board at its 16th meeting in April to focus on implementation. To further this goal, the start of the Board ...

The Green Climate Fund is transferring funds to help strengthen the island nation of Tuvalu against the double climate threats of rising sea levels and destructive ... tranche of its USD 36 million contribution to UNDP, a GCF Accredited Entity, to reduce the vulnerability of one of the ...

The Green Climate Fund is helping Mongolian enterprises kick start a national, low-carbon energy sector with its completion of a USD 20 million funds transfer to a Mongolian ... of last year, GCF designated XacBank as a direct access Accredited Entity, which propose and implement GCF-financed ...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is pleased to announce the arrival of Raul Herrera ... transactions, Mr. Herrera will act as GCF’s chief legal adviser for a six-month period, providing internal ...

Representatives of the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) direct access Accredited Entities will convene at the Fund’s headquarters ... will see GCF’s Direct Access Entities work alongside relevant National Designated Authorities (NDAs), GCF Readiness ...

Signs of growing ambition in Asian countries to tackle climate change have laid the groundwork for the second day of GCF’s regional event to boost climate finance. Participants at GCF’s ...

The Green Climate Fund launches “GCF 101” – a new web-based guide that provides Partners with detailed information on how to access the Fund’s resources. The ... to climate change: (1) Empowering countries; (2) Getting Accredited; (3) Funding projects; and (4) Implementing ...

The Green Climate Fund will host three webinars on 15 March 2017 seeking ... based payments. The webinars offer organisations and relevant stakeholders an opportunity to guide the GCF ... from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and ...

... begun his duties as new Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund Secretariat. Ambassador Bamsey is a ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by financing climate mitigation and adaptation ... “This is an exciting time to become the GCF’s leader. I am confident Howard’s appointment will help the ...

Mongolia’s XacBank today signed an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) with the Green Climate Fund, setting out its ... introducing new economically and environmentally sustainable ways of doing things,” said Mr. Amartuvshin Hanibal, ...

The fifteenth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund (B.15) ... of Board priorities will be to consider applications for accredited entity status, ways to enable easier and faster access to resources for certain ...

Effective water management is playing an increasingly key role in responding to climate change, the acting head of the Green Climate Fund Secretariat has told an international water symposium in ...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) held a country dialogue with National Designated ... project proposals. The need for capacity building for smaller countries was also raised, as a means to enhance their ...

The Co-Chairs of the Green Climate Fund held their first annual meeting with the thematic bodies of the UNFCCC during the 22nd session of the Conference of the ... thematic bodies, including the Adaptation Committee, the Least Developed Countries Expert Group, the Technology ...

... Agreement (FAA) enabling the disbursement of funds to implement the first approved project proposal from Acumen (a private sector accredited entity), making it the first GCF project to move to ... at a later stage, not only meeting the objectives of the UNFCCC but also serving SE4ALL (Sustainable Energy For All) ...

The Green Climate Fund has announced a pilot to strengthen ... of USD 200 million for around 10 pilots, including at least four to be implemented in small island developing ... and selection of specific pilot activities to be made by accredited entities, with mechanisms set up to increase ...

On the sidelines of the Eighth Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference in Batumi, ... National Designated Authorities (NDAs) and focal points, to learn about the Fund. Discussion focused on assessing the ... of engaging with entities that have already been accredited to the Fund, while, in parallel, identifying ...

Eight new public sector project proposals have been published ahead of the Board’s thirteenth meeting later this month. The proposals amount to a total request for investment of USD 208 million ... through to building coastal resilience in vulnerable areas. The proposals are taken from GCF’s pipeline, ...

... Republic of Congo yesterday signed a readiness grant agreement with the Green Climate Fund, providing USD 300,000 for capacity building in the ... Minister of Environment, Nature Conservation, and Sustainable Development, at the GCF stand during the Paris COP talks. ...

Guyana today signed a readiness grant agreement with the Green Climate Fund on the sidelines of the 21st ... Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC or 5C), Dr. Kenrick Leslie, also attended the ceremony. 5C is an Accredited Entity (AE) to the Fund, meaning that it can ...

Dear Partners, please come and join ‘GCF Talk at Six’ at COP 21 to find ... speakers from National Designated Authorities (NDAs), Accredited Entities (AEs), and other partners working with us. ... GCF’s activities at COP 21 are being posted on the GCF website and Twitter (@GCF_News). Come by and see us at the GCF ...

On the sidelines of the eleventh Green Climate Fund Board meeting, the Zambian host ... in Africa,” he said. Each country that is party to the UNFCCC has been invited to submit an INDC ahead of the Paris ...

... Héla Cheikhrouhou, interacted with government officials to learn first hand about the country’s climate action ... the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC. Upon invitation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ... States (SIDS), and African States. Other countries visited included Ethiopia, Mali, Peru, and the Philippines. ...

The National Designated Authority (NDA) of the government of Antigua and Barbuda, Ambassador Diann Black-Layne, ... its readiness grant agreement with the Green Climate Fund (GCF). A signing ceremony between Ambassador Black-Layne ... extend its support to the two-island country’s larger-scale climate adaptation initiatives. Antigua and Barbuda ...

... news update is the first in a new series focused on the Green Climate Fund’s Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme. Unique ... a grant agreement with the Green Climate Fund, to help implement its national green growth strategy and bring it ...

... to obtain readiness support from the Fund by October. Delegation officials said Pakistan will use the support to ... Specialists from GCF provided guidance on the Fund’s accreditation process and financing modalities, including its ... (INDC), which the Government of Pakistan will present at UNFCCC’s Conference of the Parties (COP 21) in Paris later ...

The Green Climate Fund is expanding its readiness programme into the Africa and Middle East region with a three-day workshop being held from 6 ...