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ED’s remarks at Interactive Dialogue - Access to Climate Finance: Building on the Outcomes of UNFCCC COP 28
... that the upper income SIDS, high income or upper middle income SIDS, have in accessing concessional finance. ... that I'm talking to you about. Also, I can't take any credit for it, but I have observed this and this is what we ... - Access to Climate Finance: Building on the Outcomes of UNFCCC COP 28 ...
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Traditional Savanna Fire Management Readiness Proposal to facilitate Emissions Reductions in the AFOLU sector in Belize
Challenges and Gaps that the Proposal is Designed to Resolve ... response and facilitating local level partnerships with communities are also prominent in Belize’s strategy. ... the proposed readiness support, is that Belize has the requisite capacity and enabling environment for development of an ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Belize
Timeline
Timeline GCF was established under the Cancún Agreements in 2010 as a dedicated financing vehicle for developing countries within the global climate ... architecture, serving the Financial Mechanism of the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement. Since the approval of the ...
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Financing the future we want
... mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and the global community grapples with a health emergency more devastating than any in living memory, the ...
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GCF's support for coral reefs
Your excellencies, distinguished guests and colleagues, on behalf of the Green Climate Fund, it is an honor to be part of this initiative to address ...
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Address at First World High Mountain Virtual Summit
Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for this kind invitation to address the World First High Mountain Virtual Summit. Protecting the mountain peatlands of ... is expected to have a negligeable effect on average global temperature. However, strong green economic recovery ...
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Virtual meeting on oceans health and carbon sequestration
Thank you - Senator Coons, Senator Braun, Senator Collins, Senate Caucus ... living species, our Ocean provides food for billions of people and income for tens of millions. It also produces around ... providing $ 125 million of anchor and first loss equity to mobilize three times this amount in private equity. In turn, ...
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The voices of Datem del Marañón: Protecting one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world
... and most biodiverse peatlands not only in Peru, but in the entire world. Spanning more than 3.8 million hectares, this ... province is home to a diverse ecosystem with more than 261 species of birds, unique marine life, and aguaje, one of ... in South America. For hundreds of years, the Amazonian people have understood that to live in kinship with nature, they ...
Article > Story Peru 
African adaptation
Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Climate impacts are ... at up to 21%. At the same time, Africa as the world’s youngest continent has made great efforts in driving the ... in policy, institutions, business, technology, and finance. Mobilizing greater private sector investment into adaptation ...
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FP002 - Scaling up the use of Modernized Climate information and Early Warning Systems in Malawi
... information systems and improving the resilience of vulnerable communities. Malawi faces more intense and frequent ... Resulting information will be better disseminated through mobile, ICT, and radio channels targeting vulnerable farming ... lifespan of 6 years. FP002 Malawi 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1 2 19 67 126 226 403 478 Scaling up the use of Modernized Climate ...
Project > Public sector Malawi 
FP151 - Global Subnational Climate Fund (SnCF Global) – Technical Assistance (TA) Facility
... or the “Fund”) is to catalyze long-term climate investment at the sub-national level for mitigation and adaptation solutions through a ... to co-invest. This is the first time an impact equity fund mobilizes public (20 %) and private sector (80%) funding at ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries 
FP152 - Global Subnational Climate Fund (SnCF Global) – Equity
... the “Fund”) is to catalyze long-term climate investment at the sub-national level for mitigation and adaptation solutions through a ... to co-invest. This is the first time an impact equity fund mobilizes public (20 %) and private sector (80%) funding at ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries 
What we offer
... we give you the opportunity to pursue rewarding and challenging work with skilled and supportive colleagues, learning ... the plan. Paid leave and holidays All GCF staff receive 26 annual leave days, 15 sick leave days, 10 development ...
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FP129 - Afghanistan Rural Energy Market Transformation Initiative – Strengthening Resilience of Livelihoods Through Sustainable Energy Access
Afghanistan faces severe energy shortages due to an ailing energy infrastructure, ... and regulatory frameworks. With no connection to the electricity grid, most rural communities depend on traditional biomass for cooking and ...
Project > Public sector Afghanistan 
FP131 - Improving Climate Resilience of Vulnerable Communities and Ecosystems in the Gandaki River Basin, Nepal
While water resources for ecosystems are becoming ... scarcer, the increase of extreme climate-related events such as landslides and floods threaten the ... Basin region, currently comprising 19.3 percent of the country's population and more than 40 ethnic groups. The ...
Project > Public sector Nepal 
FP132 - Enabling Implementation of Forest Sector Reform in Georgia to Reduce GHG Emissions from Forest Degradation
Up to 90 percent of rural households in Georgia rely on fuelwood for ... their energy needs, most importantly heating during the country’s cold winters. This leads to forest degradation and a reduction of carbon ...
Project > Public sector Georgia 
FP133 - Resilience to hurricanes in the building sector in Antigua and Barbuda
Since 1995, Antigua and Barbuda have experienced 15 hurricanes and 14 tropical storms. Set to be exacerbated by climate change, such events can lead to significant disruption of the country's power and water supplies, as well ...
Project > Public sector Antigua and Barbuda 
FP134 - Colombia REDD+ Results-based Payments for results period 2015-2016
... total volume of 6.95 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂eq) was presented to the GCF for results-based ... MtCO₂eq. Colombia will use the proceeds from RBP provided under this project to invest in additional activities that ...
Project > Public sector Colombia 
FP135 - Ecosystem-based Adaptation in the Indian Ocean – EBA IO
Small island developing states (SIDS) are extremely vulnerable to climate change, which poses severe threats to ... four Indian Ocean SIDS where livelihoods are highly dependent on the region's rich ecosystems and natural ... resilience of both people and ecosystems in these four countries by enabling civil society organisations to support ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries 
FP137 - Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project
... This project will restore degraded savannah forests and strengthen livelihoods in this area through enhanced ecosystem ... number of measures, by supporting self-financing community management to restore savannah forests and by ...
Project > Public sector Ghana 
FP138 - ASER Solar Rural Electrification Project
While almost all of Senegal’s urban areas have access to electricity, about 58 ... supports the Senegalese government’s aim to achieve universal energy access by 2025. The main causes of low ... will provide the concessional financing needed to mobilise private sector participation in providing rural ...
Project > Public sector Senegal 
FP139 - Building resilience in the face of climate change within traditional rain fed agricultural and pastoral systems in Sudan
Sudan is one of the most drought susceptible countries in Africa. Drylands are home to nearly 70 percent of the country’s population. Increasingly erratic ...
Project > Public sector Sudan 
FP140 - High Impact Programme for the Corporate Sector
Emissions from industry account for about 30 percent of total global greenhouse gas ... and paper, non-ferrous metals, food processing, and textiles. This programme is GCF's first at-scale investment to ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries 
FP103 - Promotion of Climate-Friendly Cooking: Kenya and Senegal
Traditional biomass represents approximately 15 percent of total global energy use and ... meeting the cooking needs of approximately 2.5 billion people. The IPCC estimated that replacing traditional open fires ... mitigation potential between 0.6 and 2.4 Gt CO2eq/year, while delivering a wide range of sustainable development ...
Project > Public sector Kenya Senegal 
FP110 - Ecuador REDD-plus RBP for results period 2014
Acknowledging Ecuador’s REDD+ 2014 results - a total volume of 4,831,679 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2eq) in emissions reductions - for GCF results-based ... United Nations Framework on Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) and have undergone technical assessment. They are now ...
Project > Public sector Ecuador 
SAP016 - Fiji Agrophotovoltaic Project in Ovalau
Fiji produces over half of its electricity from hydropower. However, the volatility of annual rainfall in recent years, along with an increase in climate variability, has compounded problems caused by the lack of a stable electricity ...
Project > Private sector Fiji 
SAP014 - Forest resilience of Armenia, enhancing adaptation and rural green growth via mitigation
Armenia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the Eastern Europe and Central ... Its forests are highly sensitive to climate change, while its rural population is dependent on fuelwood to meet ...
Project > Public sector Armenia 
SAP015 - Promoting zero-deforestation cocoa production for reducing emissions in Côte d’Ivoire (PROMIRE)
Côte d’Ivoire has experienced one of the world’s fastest rates of deforestation ... which is driven by cocoa production. This project will implement zero-deforestation agroforestry models in three ... selected villages. SAP015 Côte d'Ivoire 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 268 472 706 893 Promoting zero-deforestation cocoa ...
Project > Public sector Côte d'Ivoire 
Keynote speech by ED a.i.
Good morning, it’s a pleasure to be here today. I thank the Incheon Metropolitan ... for their invitation. COP27 called for a global commitment to prioritize and strengthen climate education as an ... risk to education, particularly in vulnerable developing countries, due to disruption and more frequent and violent ...
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Executive Director’s opening remarks
It's really good to be here and being able to share with you the opportunities. I would just like to ... for those of you that might not be as familiar, that the Green Climate Fund (GCF) actually has the commitment to ... most vulnerable communities is a top priority. Including by mobilising private sector investments also for adaptation ...
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