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Review and update of the GCF Strategic Plan for 2024-2027
Overview The Green Climate Fund’s Strategic Plan is a living document, that sets out the Board’s long-term strategic vision for the Fund, as well as its strategic objectives and ... active observers, observer organizations, parties to the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement, members of GCF panels and ...
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Pacific island climate threat requires early action, says regional representative at GCF workshop
Efforts are needed now to turn Pacific Island concerns over climate change as an existential threat into action, said a regional body ... during a Green Climate Fund workshop. “The slow burn crisis of sea level rises, ocean acidification and impacts ...
Article > Press release 
Harnessing climate science to guide climate investments
During a visit to the headquarters of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), ... a much sooner than expected reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, and that the technology to enable this, at the ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). One area that generated discussion was strengthening ...
Article > Press release 
Twentieth meeting of the GCF Board (B.20)
... the report of the nineteenth meeting of the Board Board decisions proposed and approved between the nineteenth and ... of the Board: guidelines to determine in which cases decisions may be taken without a Board meeting Application of ... reference for the review of the committees and panel established by the Board Guidance from the Conference of the ...
Event > Board meeting 
Twelfth meeting of the GCF Board (B.12)
... of work Adoption of the report of eleventh Board meeting Decisions taken between the eleventh and twelfth meeting of the ... committees, panels, and groups Ethics and Audit Committee Risk Management Committee Investment Committee Accreditation Committee Private Sector Advisory Group Ad Hoc Appointments Committee Accreditation ...
Event > Board meeting 
Structured Dialogue with Asia 2017
... aimed to develop a roadmap for priorities of the Fund in this region. The consultations took place in the context of the GCF Strategic Plan and recent Board decisions that provide support for the development of paradigm ... are being led by direct access entities. Over time, this percentage is expected to increase as more direct access ...
Event > Structured dialogue Indonesia 
Bonn side event links climate ambition to GCF replenishment
... side event during the current Bonn climate talks has emphasised the link between NDC implementation and replenishment. Developing country representatives highlighted the role of GCF in realising the existing National Determined Contributions (NDCs), ...
Article > Press release Germany 
GCF and World Bank partner to boost cookstove market in Bangladesh
... Bangladesh initiative designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation, while also lessening health risks for Bangladesh people. About 66 percent of the ... offer a great opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve people’s health, while this project ...
Article > Press release Bangladesh 
FP151 - Global Subnational Climate Fund (SnCF Global) – Technical Assistance (TA) Facility
... Climate Fund Global (SnCF Global or the “Fund”) is to catalyze long-term climate investment at the ... financing model. The SnCF Global’s business model is designed to attract primarily private institutional ... at global scale (SDGs, NbS). The subnational level is key: 70% of known climate solutions are located within ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries 
Partner agreements after Board meeting sign of faster GCF financing
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has signed agreements with is partners to implement four new climate initiatives only ... The projects to strengthen climate action in Liberia, Uzbekistan, Jordan and Congo were given the green light during ... to set the parameters of implementation, reporting, disbursement and budgeting for each individual GCF climate ...
Article > Press release 
FP180 - Global Fund for Coral Reefs Investment Window
... by climate change impacts. And drivers such as overfishing, agricultural run-off, sewage discharge and unsustainable tourism degrade the coral reefs, ... the programme will benefit from synergies with the GFCR Grant Window, which aims to mobilise USD 125 million of ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries 
Thematic brief: Oceans
... regional stability and conserve global biodiversity. This generates vital ecosystem goods and services that support ... climate and temperature regulation, absorption of carbon emissions, fisheries, food security, coastal protection, tourism ...
Document > Thematic brief
Policies: Risk management framework
Risk management framework GCF’s risk management framework defines GCF’s approach to managing risk at both the institutional and funding proposal ... covering funding, non-financial, investment and compliance risks. It also contains GCF’s risk appetite, approach to ...
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Adaptation planning support through GGGI
Rwanda is undergoing rapid urbanization as one of its main economic growth and transformation drivers, while risks from climate change continues to pose a challenge. ... interventions related to urban and the built environment. This National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Readiness project ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Rwanda
FP223 - Project GAIA ("GAIA")
... global increase in the frequency of major climate-related disasters, such as floods, droughts, heatwaves, and violent ... The estimated annual cost of adaptation in these countries is expected to reach as much as 500 billion per year in ... have to work together in investment partnerships. This is the driving force behind Project GAIA. Project ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries 
FP259 - Adapting tuna-dependent Pacific Island communities and economies to climate change
The Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are vulnerable to climate change ... are degrading coral reefs and reducing the amount of reef fish available for coastal populations’ food security. Ocean warming is also driving the redistribution of tuna stocks. Many ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries 
GCF-1
GCF's first replenishment GCF’s first replenishment (2020-2023) is an important element of the financial commitments needed to deliver the UNFCCC and its Paris Agreement. This first replenishment is ...
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GCF Africa Regional Dialogue opens with a focus on regional climate solutions
... of the Dialogue, held at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Conference Centre, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 29 September 2025, is ‘Towards a ... action pathways, with discussions on greening the Africa Free Trade Area and harnessing synergies across ...
Article > News update Ethiopia 
Postcard from Katowice: Wednesday, December 12
... and encouragement to greater ambition for the GCF replenishment from Germany and Norway in particular. GCF's second official side event of this year’s COP focused on the Fund's achievements to date, ...
Article > Press release 
Summary of outcomes of the 24th meeting of the GCF Board
... over the meeting as Co-Chairs. Representatives of the UNFCCC secretariat, the World Bank (GCF Trustee), and the Board’s independent Technical Advisory Panel and its Accreditation Panel were present, as ... approved by the Board. This document does not represent the official report of the meeting. Summary of outcomes of the ...
Document > Summary of outcomes of the meeting of the GCF Board
GCF-1 Progress Report
... years, in the face of COVID-19, political and economic crises, the need for urgent climate action has become ever ... period (referred to as ‘GCF-1’), ahead of its replenishment for the next four years. The GCF-1 Progress Report ... who was appointed as the incoming Executive Director will officially start her term in July 2023. GCF-1 Progress ...
Document > Annual report
Luxembourg and GCF meet to discuss climate finance mobilization
During COP 22, Luxembourg’s Environment Minister, Ms. Carole Dieschbourg, and the Green Climate Fund ... Executive Director a.i., Mr. Javier Manzanares, met to discuss the Fund’s progress over the past year, as well as ... to international climate finance, which is additional to Official Development Assistance, amounting to USD 230 per ...
Article > Press release Luxembourg 
Building the engagement of Burkina Faso with the GCF: Establishing and strengthening national institutions to engage with GCF and formulate a country programme
... plans, and priorities are already formulated in several official documents, such as the NAPA, NAP, INDCs, NAMAs plan ... in line with PNDES*. Altogether they constitute the basis for a country programme, cornerstone for the preparation, ... Fund, and engagement of stakeholders, including from administration, private sector, civil society, with equal ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Burkina Faso
GCF Global NDA Conference 2018
The Green Climate Fund is pleased to host the Global NDA Conference on 8-9 and 12 ... to exchange ideas, hear from technology investors, and discuss climate investment opportunities — all in an effort ... and development of project pipelines. Government officials will provide firsthand accounts of how GCF ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the) 
GCF’s PPMS Readiness Report Module Webinar
... funded activities and the Readiness Programme since its official launch in January 2021. In particular, the PPMS for ... Support Programme was soft-launched in July 2022 and the disbursement module was launched in October 2022. During this webinar, the GCF Secretariat will introduce the newly ...
Event > Webinar 
GCF's PPMS Webinar on APR submission for AEs for CY2022
Since its official launch in January 2021, the GCF Secretariat has ... to supporting AEs in submitting the CY2022 APRs as the submission deadlines are approaching. All the AEs and any other ... of the webinar will be held with interpretation to Spanish and French, as well as live captioning, allowing for ...
Event > Webinar 
Creating the enabling conditions for the implementation of the Loss & Damage (L&D) mechanism in Ecuador
... geographical location and socioeconomic conditions, Ecuador is highly vulnerable to external factors of various kinds, ... caused by these events in the past decades, there is no official economic quantification in Ecuador that enables the ... the national or international negotiations related to the UNFCCC Loss and Damage (L&D) mechanism. The main goal of ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ecuador
Climate finance forum shows Pacific potential
... identifying the way ahead for focusing climate finance in this vulnerable part of the world, particularly in building ... projects totalling more than USD 250 million in the Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, ... across the Pacific region, in addition to senior government officials, including representatives of GCF National ...
Article > Press release 
African countries propose ambitious GCF pipeline at Cape Town Dialogue
... Climate Fund Structured Dialogue with Africa concluded this week after three days of focused deliberations on helping ... climate-resilient projects that were discussed between 24-26 October. Project concepts covered mitigation and ... National Designated Authorities (NDAs) or focal points, UNFCCC Focal Points, and officials from national ministries of ...
Article > Press release South Africa 
Keynote for P4G Seoul 2021
This week’s P4G Summit is an important opportunity to build momentum to deliver global climate change ambitions whilst also realising the Sustainable Development Goals. The ambition is ... trillion of negative-yielding debt in OECD countries and $26 trillion of low carbon, climate resilient investment ...
Article > Speech