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Farmerline: Empowering smallholder farmers and governments to create climate-resilient agribusinesses
The impact of climate change is impacting all sectors, with agriculture being particularly vulnerable, ... responsible for 19 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, totalling 9.9 billion tons of CO2e annually. Agriculture is a major industry in Ghana, Kenya, ...
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Mobilising financing for agricultural technologies: seeding a climate resilient and food-secure future
... financing for such technologies in the developing world falls short. Up to USD 300 billion per year by 2030 is ... climate change. And adaptation receives only 5 per cent of all climate finance – with less than USD 500 million of ... of up to USD 100 million in catalytic capital to CRAFT allows the programme to scale up adaptation finance and ...
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Pacific Islander voices: living on the frontlines of the climate crisis
... reach over 90,000 women, men, young people, and children in all six provinces of Vanuatu directly helping community ... on their doorstep – and those still to come. Critically, the project will reach nearly half of the country’s ... target of the project, empowering them to establish small eco-businesses, preserving and selling the surplus ...
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Building climate resilience in one of the most vulnerable zones in the Americas: the Guatemalan Highlands
... with maize and beans. As he gazes into the horizon, he recalls a completely different landscape with lush forest and ... daughter, said these measures have improved their daily diet and the family’s income. “Our diet and family income have changed significantly because we ...
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Ambition and coordination key to climate finance reform
... Financial Architecture and the Role of GCF,” a packed audience heard how responding to the immense challenge requires bold and transformative action. The ... on the type of climate finance needed to tackle today’s challenges. GCF Executive Director Mafalda Duarte said ...
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Innovating agriculture through the power of nature and tech
... growth in crop production and an expansion in overall land devoted to agriculture over the past few decades. ... the way we are producing food today, soil will become increasingly less fertile. Food will become progressively less ... can sequester between 0.4 and 1.2 billion tons of CO2 annually. If a farm using 100 tons of synthetic fertiliser ...
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Pioneering Barbados water project kick starts
... to scale up climate action and simultaneously avoid increasing the burden of public debt is all set to begin implementation. The pioneering project, ... Water Reclamation Project. In December 2024, this support allowed the government of Barbados to successfully complete ...
Article > Press release Barbados FP251 
Solving Mexico’s water crisis while shaping the future of food
... is experiencing more frequent droughts, unpredictable rainfall, and increasing temperatures, which in turn are reducing water ... clean water while creating functional and nutritional ingredients for the plant-based food industry using regenerative ...
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Record finance and increased impact: GCF delivers for ‘implementation COP’ as it marks 10 years of climate action
... USD 3.26 billion in new climate finance. But impact is equally important,” stressed Mafalda Duarte, GCF Executive ... forward,” continued Duarte. “We are very committed to really analysing the impact of our portfolio and drawing the ... by climate change to PNG and other Pacific islands, and called for a broad coalition to provide financial and ...
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Landmark project improved farmers’ livelihoods and protected forests in Madagascar, new report finds
... ” project. The project supported more than 24,000 smallholder farming households in and around the ... from 2018 to 2025, drawing on results from over 1,600 smallholder farmers interviewed in this assessment. The ... areas, before and after the project activities. This allowed researchers to track the programme’s direct ...
Article > Press release Madagascar FP026 
Workshop forges direct links to country-led climate action
... in Direct Access Entities by highlighting how 80 percent of all entities accredited since last year are direct access. ... discussion as these are forms of financial support specifically targeting Direct Access Entities. There was a ... financing, the private sector will need to be drawn increasingly into generating countries’ climate action. ...
Article > Press release CCCCC 
25th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP25)
... to longer term paradigm shift to low-emission development. All side events will be livestreamed. During the COP we are ... share their perspectives 0900 - 1030 Launch of the GEF Challenge Program for Adaptation Innovation 1100 - 1230 ...
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Rural women rising
... sustainable agriculture. Elizabeth Dube, a 73-year-old smallholder farmer from Matabeleland South, delicately waters ... and without financial independence, life was challenging. At an age when many may consider retirement, ... a critical asset in a drought-prone region becoming increasingly dry due to climate change. With the income from the ...
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Re-connecting with Mother Earth
In the north of Colombia, in a region called La Mojana, three of the country’s most important ... in turn informing the design of solutions to the challenges La Mojana faces today. Twenty Zenú students, ... Earth programme Zenú Life Plan: A plan for the future All this work has come together in the Zenú Life Plan. ...
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About GCF
... developing countries raise and realize their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) ambitions towards ... solutions, least developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing states (SIDS). Mainstreaming climate ...
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Enhancing Direct Access
... for example, establishing a dedicated facility to fund small-scale community projects. The EDA pilot has been ...
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Policies: Administration
Administration
GCF’s administrative policies cover GCF’s key administrative processes including information disclosure, human resources, travel, procurement, accounting, communications, and management of conflict of...
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Keynote for P4G Seoul 2021
... and its recommended solutions to respond to the twin challenges of climate and COVID-19. Ladies and gentlemen, the Paris Agreement aims to limit the ... in the next decades by limiting demand for CO2 and increasing energy efficiency, whilst the third and fourth ...
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Countries step up ambition: Landmark boost to coffers of the world’s largest climate fund
... are expected to submit updated plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which are key to the ... economies greener and more resilient.” “I appeal to all participants to provide significant resources during ... countries is essential to face the climate crisis, especially for the benefit of the most vulnerable. That is why ...
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GCF leadership forum helps turn COVID-19 recovery into cause for climate hope
... of states, government ministers and UN representatives called today for global solidarity to scale up action to ... in developing countries amid the COVID-19 crisis. The call was made during an online Leadership Dialogue organised ... plans; reviving economies sustainably without increasing debt; making blended finance work for developing ...
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Catalysing transformative climate resilient infrastructure through private investment
... loss equity investment into the SnCF that will substantially de-risk and crowd-in investments from private and ... to generate more resources. “The GCF is doing fantastically in leveraging and catalyzing finances that are on the ... the importance of blended finance models that work for all countries. He emphasized the importance of GCF as the ...
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US climate envoy supports “indispensable” GCF role during climate forum
... need people to take risks to spur innovation and the challenge, I think, is to give people comfort and knowledge about the new sectors,” he said. While calling for involvement with governments at all levels, he stressed the need for “changing the ...
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Financing low emissions, resilient development pathways
... to USD 4.5 trillion in green investment opportunities annually over the next two decades. We have seen a steady ... required to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. Equally concerning, we are not witnessing a repricing of assets ... explore innovative structures to finance them without increasing their sovereign debt burden. Blended finance ...
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Prioritising climate finance for vulnerable SIDS during a global pandemic
... region. I would also like to acknowledge and thank our audience: GCF National Designated Authorities and ... countries, including in the Caribbean, Covid-19 is increasing levels of debt and reducing access to affordable ... climate planning, to enable countries translate their Nationally Determined Contributions into an investment pipeline ...
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The role of the Green Climate Fund in scaling up finance for climate action and resilience
... the impacts of climate change. The two objectives are equally important. We must both scale up climate mitigation and ... to rise to up to $500 billion per year by 2050. Yet globally, only one fifth of the funds mobilised for climate ... first municipal bonds for recycled water in South Africa. Ladies and gentlemen, The climate crisis demands collective ...
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Global fund for coral reefs- reef-based climate resilience finance
... to USD 37 billion when accounting for co-financing, allows us to focus increasingly more on supporting nature-based climate solutions. Close to half of GCF funds (48%) is allocated for adaptation while 52% is for mitigation, ...
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GCF-1 Progress Report
... Recognising that developing countries face multiple challenges to accessing climate finance, GCF works across ... countries to access capital for climate action without increasing unsustainable debt. Through its use of blended ... (> USD 250 million). It is accelerating financing for small-scale projects with updates to its Simplified Approval ...
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Green Climate Fund: USD 736 million for new projects and readiness strategy to accelerate climate action
... co-financing during these three years. GCF’s overall portfolio now stands at USD 13.5 billion in GCF funding, ... Co-chair, Nauman Bashir Bhatti said: “I am delighted that all 15 proposals submitted for our scrutiny were approved ... the most vulnerable – Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and African States. ...
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Launch of Green Guarantee Company to mobilise billions in climate finance
... grade rating of BBB/Stable from Fitch Ratings. Initially, it will focus on private credit and the LSE green bond ... countries an attractive asset class deserving of larger allocations in global climate debt portfolios. Christopher ... markets at a time when climate action is becoming increasingly urgent.” Andrew Mitchell, UK Minister of State in ...
Article > Press release MUFG_Bank FP197 