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Remarks by Héla Cheikhrouhou, GCF Executive Director, at the 13th meeting of the Board
... members, Partners, observers, civil society organizations, and private sector representatives, Colleagues, Today is my ... the Green Climate Fund was conceived as a catalyst for transformational change to respond to this climate crisis. GCF is ... on my heavy duties. I pray for our collective climate action to succeed. At the very least, I pray that we succeed ...
Article > Press release 
GCF invests USD 99 million in EBRD Green Cities Facility to reduce urban climate impacts
... today to help make redesigned cities drivers of climate action with the signing of an agreement with funding partner ... 1.5C as they account for 70 percent of global energy use and 75 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. The Funded ... Suma Chakrabarti said the GCF–EBRD partnership for transformation has gone from strength to strength. “To date, ...
Article > Press release EBRD 
United Kingdom pledges to double contribution to Green Climate Fund
... in Biarritz, France. After the announcement, UK Business and Energy Secretary Andrea Leadsom commented: “The Green ... welcomes the British government’s commitment to climate action in developing countries. The announcement to double ... It is also a sign of trust in the GCF to deliver transformative climate outcomes that help developing countries ...
Article > Press release United Kingdom 
GCF and Korea Development Bank help climate innovators traverse “valley of death”
... death’ – the gap between seed funding for entrepreneurs and the longer-term investment that brings those ideas to ... with a new partnership between the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Korea Development Bank (KDB), supported by the ... spur research and business development to upgrade climate action across the whole region. Climate technologies can ...
Article > Press release KDB 
Structured Dialogue with Eastern Europe and Central Asia connects climate ambition to climate finance
... during the GCF Structured Dialogue with Eastern Europe and Central Asia which ended today in Dushanbe. The last ... the climate finance needed to realise effective climate action. Tajikistan, host country of the event, is ... four-day GCF Structured Dialogue offered an important platform to facilitate exchanges of information, experiences, ...
Article > Press release Tajikistan 
Deutsche Bank signs Accreditation Master Agreement with Green Climate Fund
... the Green Climate Fund (GCF), enabling the Bank to receive and use GCF capital to raise further funds from private sector investors to support action on climate change. The agreement was signed in London by Nicolas Moreau, Head of Deutsche Asset Management and member of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank AG, and ...
Article > Press release DeutscheBank 
GCF joins initiative to help Africa expand its REDD+ roots
... a regional approach to using payments to keep forests standing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. GCF staff joined more than 60 REDD+ experts and country representatives from 22 African countries at a ... challenges and opportunities in boosting African REDD+ action at local, national and regional levels. Nassere Kaba, ...
Article > Press release Côte d'Ivoire 
New Climate Investment Platform targets increase in flow of capital to clean energy projects
... to meet climate ambitions. The Climate Investment Platform (CIP) is an inclusive partnership welcoming all ... organisations to the private sector to scale-up climate action and translate ambitious national climate targets into ...
Article > Press release UNDP 
GCF investments reducing climate risk to feature at Climate Adaptation Summit
... its portfolio equally between support for adaptation and actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. With global ... This gap is currently estimated at USD 70 billion annually, and expected to rise to USD 140 to 300 billion in 2030. ...
Article > Press release 
GCF/B.32/07 - Guidance on the approach and scope for providing support to adaptation activities
... in line with the B.31 decision by which the Board agreed and confirmed the dates and venue of B.32, noting that the ... presents: (i) the GCF mandate to enhance adaptation action; (ii) the GCF strategic approach to adaptation programming; (iii) information on the GCF modalities to support adaptation ...
Board document > Action item
GCF wins innovation prize
... The annual business awards identify organizations, products and people developing new ideas to improve people’s lives. GCF’s knowledge management team is learning and sharing lessons from the Fund’s experiences supporting climate action in developing countries. GCF’s Knowledge Management ...
Article > Press release 
Partner agreements after Board meeting sign of faster GCF financing
... by the GCF Board. The projects to strengthen climate action in Liberia, Uzbekistan, Jordan and Congo were given the green light during the GCF ... behind,” he added. “These projects will have a transformational impact on the lives and livelihoods of ...
Article > Press release 
GCF slates future climate cooperation with China Development Bank
... to coordinate their activities in promoting climate action. While the agreement – signed recently by GCF Executive Director Howard Bamsey and CDB Vice President Zhang Xuguang – is not ... cooperate in identifying opportunities to reduce emissions and adapt to climate change in China and other developing ...
Article > Press release China 
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Ecuador through UNDP
... framework with the Fund that helps strengthen the NDA and the country´s capacity to implement mitigation and adaptation actions. The proposal includes activities that will allow ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ecuador UNDP
Strengthening synergies: the role of the Green Climate Fund in implementing the Paris Agreement and the 2030 agenda
... in supporting the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the operationalisation of developing countries’ ... UN agencies, financial institutions, private sector and civil society. The event will include panel discussions, ... the role of GCF in identifying key areas to mobilise action, resources, and investments to better serve the ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF United States 
Strategic frameworks support for Belize through CDB
... capacity to access GCF resources through a better understanding of the GCF processes and the design of bankable funding proposals. The programme ... knowledge about the GCF and its engagement in climate actions within Belize is minimal. Given the climate change ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Belize CDB
Strategic frameworks support for Ghana through UNDP
Building on the results and lessons of this first phase of GCF readiness, the NDA is ... to climate-related finance; c) assist Ghana in developing a gender-responsive country programme including climate change adaptation and mitigation actions aligned with agreed national priorities, and d) ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ghana UNDP
Enhancing Adaptive Capacity and Resilience of Vulnerable Communities and Ecosystems to Climate Change Impacts in the Cattle Corridor of Uganda
Uganda's Cattle Corridor is most affected by climate change. ... farmers and pastoralists to undertake adaptation actions to improve the productive capacity of ecosystems, ... activities; and facilitate knowledge management through information sharing. Uganda Enhancing Adaptive Capacity and ...
Document > Concept note Uganda OSS
Vanuatu Community-based Climate Resilience Project
... increase their resilience to climate variability, extremes and change; and build the adaptive capacity required to ensure ... developing and implementing scalable, locally appropriate actions to meet immediate and future community adaptation ...
Document > Concept note Vanuatu SCA
Strengthening the prevention and attention of forest fires intensified by climate change in Peru
Every year, forest fires are occurring more frequently and in a broader scope in Peru, due to the combination of anthropic actions and the changes in temperature, rainfall and drought ...
Document > Concept note Peru Profonanpe
Open dialogue on the development of the GCF Enhancing Direct Access Guidelines
... aims to engage partners involved in locally led climate action, including GCF’s accredited entities and NDAs/Focal Points, in an open discussion that will ensure that their views, insights and practical experience from the implementation of locally ...
Event > Webinar 
GCF: Catalysing finance for climate solutions
... shrinking. Floods, droughts, heatwaves, extreme storms, and wildfires are breaking records with alarming frequency ... result in even more devastating consequences for people and planet, with vulnerable populations suffering the most. Ambitious action is urgently needed both to reduce emissions and to ...
Document > Publication
Annual Results Report 2021
... 2021: Promoting low emission, climate-resilient recovery and maintaining climate ambitions during the pandemic. GCF's annual report, available in both web and pdf ... Annual Results Report gives an overview of the strategic actions taken by GCF to deliver urgently needed climate ...
Document > Annual report
GCF/B.32/05/Add.02 - Update of the Simplified Approval Process – Addendum II Summary of the Bilateral Consultations on the Update of the Simplified Approval Process
... in line with the B.31 decision by which the Board agreed and confirmed the dates and venue of B.32, noting that the first two days will be ... This note also provides the Secretariat’s responses and actions to address the comments received. GCF/B.32/05/Add.02 ...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.32/05/Add.02 - Update of the Simplified Approval Process – Addendum II Summary of the Bilateral Consultations on the Update of the Simplified Approval Process
... in line with the B.31 decision by which the Board agreed and confirmed the dates and venue of B.32, noting that the first two days will be ... This note also provides the Secretariat’s responses and actions to address the comments received. GCF/B.32/05/Add.02 ...
Board document > Information
GCF-SAP CREWS Scaling-up Framework for early warning
... in 2022, by the Boards of both the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) . The intention of the ... country ownership of investments; scaling up successful actions financed by CREWS through the GCF Simplified ...
Document > Joint publication
Enhancing Ethiopia’s Climate Resilience and Green Growth
... mechanism across the country through the development and implementation country-wide climate investment framework ... also support key in-country stakeholders in their climate action implementation, and access to climate finance; in the ... the proposal supports knowledge management and information sharing practices of the country with an approach ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ethiopia GGGI
Caribbean countries launch landmark platform to scale up climate investment
The creation of a platform to accelerate the mobilisation of finance for the ... across the Caribbean region was announced today. The landmark Regional Platform for catalyzing Resilience and Climate Action in the Caribbean aims to identify and deliver ...
Article > Press release Barbados 
Multilateral Climate Funds Joint Results Report
... against a critical set of common indicators of climate action, covering mitigation, adaptation, energy and technology, and nature. This milestone marks a significant step forward ...
Document > Joint publication
FP092 - Programme for integrated development and adaptation to climate change in the Niger Basin (PIDACC/NB)
Improving the resilience of populations and ecosystems in the Niger Basin by managing natural ... by implementing a series of integrated and comprehensive actions that reduce the silting of the Niger River, improve ... use. The project has an estimated lifespan of 6 years. FP092 Benin Burkina Faso Côte d'Ivoire Guinea Mali Niger ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries AfDB 