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Enabling Direct Access to GCF Climate Finance for Cabo Verde
The capacity to access climate finance will be a key determinant of ... following key outcomes: Outcome 1.1 : Country NDAs or focal points and the network/ systems that enable them to fulfil ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cabo Verde
Unlocking the Green Climate Fund: Learning from the Readiness Programme
An insight into the discussion that emerged at a COP 23 side ... Hobson, representing the Ministry of Agriculture in Grenada said, “be prepared to fully commit to this ... climate finance and deliver results.” Other questions pointed to a low number of ‘innovative’ projects that ...
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GCF discusses progress at Marrakech climate talks
... to create a Fund that is innovative and truly transformational; one that has the backing of all countries, as much as ... African States. GCF officials participating in the session pointed out the recent expansion of the Fund’s readiness ... “At B.11, the Board approved USD 168m; at B.13 – USD 265m; and at B.14 – USD 745m.” The GCF Board will ...
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Climate investments critical for post-COVID recovery: GCF conference highlights mobilisation of private capital to green developing economies
Investors at the GCF Private Investment for Climate ... climate change. Christian Deseglise, HSBC’s Head of Sustainable Finance and Investments, Global Banking and Markets, ... launched a new working paper “Tipping or turning point: scaling up climate finance in the era of COVID-19”. ...
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Fostering Sustainable Urban Mobility with Efficient and Low Emission Transport in Tegucigalpa
... growth in the last decade. In the NDC presented to the UNFCCC, the Government of Honduras (GoH) has pointed out the importance of the transport sector for the ... more than of 9,000 employees with an average of 1,795 visitors per day. The CCGT is located in Tegucigalpa in one ...
Document > Concept note Honduras
ED’s remarks at Interactive Dialogue - Access to Climate Finance: Building on the Outcomes of UNFCCC COP 28
... or upper middle income SIDS, have in accessing concessional finance. There again, just to say that mechanisms such ... It was very interesting for me to see. An additional point that has been quite interesting for me to see, and the ... - Access to Climate Finance: Building on the Outcomes of UNFCCC COP 28 ...
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Financing climate ambition in the context of COVID-19
... Klein, Director and Global Head of Climate Business, International Finance Corporation (IFC)] At the onset I would like to thank the governments of ... of this discussion, saying that the world is at a turning point or at a crossroad is a tired cliché. But I cannot ...
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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 ... and portfolio targets, strategic priorities and operational priorities for the current programming period. The ... 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 representative during a Green Climate Fund ... said Simon Wilson, with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme ( SPREP ). A broad-based climate ...
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Twentieth meeting of the GCF Board (B.20)
The twentieth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be ... of the Co-Chairs Co-Chairs’ report Confirmation of the appointment of the Heads of the Independent Units beyond the probationary period Updated Board workplan for 2018 Reports from ...
Event > Board meeting 
Sixteenth meeting of the GCF Board (B.16)
The sixteenth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund ... the formal replenishment process Update on the GCF risk management framework Matters related to accreditation Status ... Performance criteria and measurement procedures for Board-appointed officials Interim work plan and interim budget of ...
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Thirteenth meeting of the GCF Board (B.13)
The thirteenth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will ... panels and groups Ethics and Audit Committee Risk Management Committee Investment Committee Budget Committee Private Sector Advisory Group Appointments Committee Accreditation Panel Accreditation ...
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Twelfth meeting of the GCF Board (B.12)
The twelfth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from ... panels, and groups Ethics and Audit Committee Risk Management Committee Investment Committee Accreditation ... Committee Private Sector Advisory Group Ad Hoc Appointments Committee Accreditation Panel Independent ...
Event > Board meeting 
Structured Dialogue with Asia 2017
GCF's Structured Dialogue with Asia aimed to develop a roadmap for priorities ... the industry and building sectors, and to improve waste management practices, was also discussed. Within the theme of ... hazards, to increase food security and to improve the management of water resources. Within another theme that ...
Event > Structured dialogue Indonesia 
Bonn side event links climate ambition to GCF replenishment
A Green Climate Fund (GCF) side event during the current Bonn climate ... highlighted the role of GCF in realising the existing National Determined Contributions (NDCs), as well as in ...
Article > Press release Germany 
GCF and World Bank partner to boost cookstove market in Bangladesh
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the World Bank have signed an agreement ... of Bangladesh live in rural areas, where women predominantly cook using traditional, wood-fueled stoves. Burning wood for cooking releases ...
Article > Press release Bangladesh 
Partner agreements after Board meeting sign of faster GCF financing
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has signed agreements with is partners to ... has been to make sure we don't end up having to negotiate financial transfer agreements for six months or 12 months ... approval ever for GCF, USD 1.2 billion, and also in co-financing, USD 6.3 billion.” Two of the four projects which ...
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Thematic brief: Oceans
... cover more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, providing a natural asset of enormous significance to protect our ... economic activity attracting an estimated 70 million visitors annually with an associated expenditure of US $36 ...
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Policies: Risk management framework
Risk management framework GCF’s risk management framework defines GCF’s approach to ...
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Adaptation planning support through GGGI
Rwanda is undergoing rapid urbanization as one of its main economic ... related to urban and the built environment. This National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Readiness project therefore aims ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Rwanda
Work with us
Our values Committed to climate action We are committed to working together ... change, both through our funded activities and the sustainability of our operations. Innovative We strive to be leaders in the field of climate finance, take risks where we see opportunities to unlock ...
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Access funding
Overview GCF funds climate action. This section provides information and resources guiding you ...
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Keynote for P4G Seoul 2021
This week’s P4G Summit is an important opportunity to build ... climate change ambitions whilst also realising the Sustainable Development Goals. The ambition is there - as the P4G ... trillion of negative-yielding debt in OECD countries and $26 trillion of low carbon, climate resilient investment ...
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The positives of preparing for disaster
A guide to GCF’s support for climate change early warning ... information systems, which consist of data collection points that are mapped and analysed, to provide communities with scientific estimations ...
Article > Story 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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Readiness: Delivery partners
Readiness delivery partners Under both the Country and the DAE support windows NDAs/focal points and DAEs may choose to implement readiness support ... partners (DPs) or a consortium of DPs with any combination of national and international expertise, leveraging ...
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GCF side event asks ‘what makes a good project?’
A side event at COP 21 hosted by the Green Climate Fund on 2 ... its funding decisions. The meeting was aimed at assisting National Designated Authorities (NDAs) and Accredited ... Hela Cheikhrouhou, GCF’s Executive Director, pointed out that the Fund stands ready to support the ...
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Structured Dialogue with the Pacific 2018
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Structured Dialogue with the Pacific, ... Ministers for a High-Level Session, and representatives of National Designated Authorities, Accredited Entities, ... the GCF Board in the future. Some of the key outcomes and points of shared learning from the Structured Dialogue ...
Event > Structured dialogue Micronesia (Federated States of) 
UN forum side event highlights need for GCF replenishment
The Green Climate Fund needs to be strengthened by a replenishment of ... panel held earlier this week during a UN forum addressing finance for global development. Ambassador Luis Alfonso de ... and private sources of funding." Minister Sayed-Khaiyum pointed out that "GCF is in a unique position to bring the ...
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GCF and Korean Government join forces to promote global Green New Deal
The head of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) on Thursday called for a global Green New Deal in which redirected financial flows usher in an age of sustainable, post-pandemic ... UN Assistant Secretary-General for the Climate Action Team, pointed out that every continent is already experiencing ...
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