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Country platforms for climate finance
This brochure describes GCF’s approach to country platforms, including an overview of the concept, the potential impact and the end-to-end support GCF can provide. In particular, it explains how the Readiness Programme...
Document > GCF in Brief
Financial terms and conditions of grants and concessional loans
Adopted by decision B.09/04. Adopts the financital terms and conditions of grants and concessional loans and specifies the conditions for deployment of funding instruments.
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Response to allegations reported by Financial Times
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) takes very seriously allegations of inappropriate behaviour made in a Financial Times newspaper article published on 26 August. The GCF’s Secretariat strongly refutes claims of systematic staffing problems affecting ...
Article > Statement 
GCF/B.11/19 - Updated administrative guidelines on human resources
The Board at its eighth meeting having considered the Administrative Guidelines on Human Resources, approved document GCF/B.08/26 titled “Administrative guideline on human resources” for a ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.11/22 - Trustee arrangements, including the review of the Interim Trustee and the initiation of a process to select the Trustee of the Green Climate Fund
This document presents an update on the steps towards selecting a Permanent Trustee and proposes a draft decision ... for the review of the Interim Trustee, following paragraph 26 of the Governing Instrument for the Green Climate Fund ... could potentially serve as Permanent Trustee; Developing a methodology for an open, transparent and competitive bidding ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.12/18 - Trustee arrangements, including the Review of the Interim Trustee and the initiation of a process to select the Trustee of the Green Climate Fund
This document presents an update on the steps towards selecting a Permanent Trustee and proposes a draft decision ... for the review of the Interim Trustee, following paragraph 26 of the Governing Instrument for the Green Climate Fund ... could potentially serve as Permanent Trustee; Developing a methodology for an open, transparent and competitive bidding ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.27/10 - Guidelines to facilitate Board consideration of IRM reports on reconsideration requests, grievances or complaints
By Decision B.22/22 of 26 February 2019 the Board requested “the Head of the IRM, in consultation with the Ethics and Audit Committee, to consider options to ... for consideration by the Board by its twenty-fourth meeting.” In pursuance of Decision B.22/22, the Head of the ...
Board document > Action item
The Green Climate Fund: A decade of impact supporting the Paris Agreement
... of the Paris Agreement, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has released a comprehensive Impact Report detailing how the GCF has provided the financial means for ... first projects and on the back of a record year of USD 3.26 billion of climate investment approvals in 2025. It ...
Article > News update 
CAF and the GCF to finance green projects in Chile, Ecuador, Panama and Peru
CAF and the GCF to finance green projects in Chile, Ecuador, Panama and Peru ...
Article > Article about GCF 
Gender assessment for FP262: Green Climate Finance Facility for Fostering Climate-Smart Agriculture in Senegal
This gender assessment for FP262: Green Climate Finance Facility for Fostering ... in Senegal seeks to present the issues, gaps and problems that should be addressed by gender-responsive project interventions. Senegal FP262 Gender assessment for FP262: Green Climate Finance ...
Document > Gender assessment Senegal LBA
Readiness and preparatory support to implement Green City Development Projects in Rwanda's Secondary Cities
... the Government of Rwanda (GoR) for the development of implementation strategies toward the operationalization of key ... II: 2013/18) Green Growth Priorities and the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The green city detailed physical plan will provide the GoR with clear tools and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Rwanda 
GCF and Acumen sign agreement to promote resilient agriculture in East and West Africa
... projects in East and West Africa. GCF has committed USD 26 million to Acumen aimed at ensuring long-term sustainable increases in agriculture productivity and incomes for ... Asia, Latin America and the United States. Acumen is an accredited entity to GCF. The Green Climate Fund was ...
Article > Press release Acumen 
GCF/B.10/12 - Template for the Bilateral Agreement on Privileges and Immunities
At its meeting in Songdo from 24 to 26 March 2015, the Board ... a proposed “Template for the Bilateral Agreement on Privileges and Immunities” prepared by the Secretariat. In this ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.39/Inf.02 - Report on the execution of the 2024 administrative budget of GCF
... on the execution of the GCF 2024 administrative budget from 1 January to 30 April 2024 and other additional budgets approved by the Board. The administrative expenditure ... million against the annual budget of USD 125.4 million (26 per cent of the approved budget); USD 0. 8 million ...
Board document > Information
Readiness grant agrement for Chad (TCD‐RS‐001)
Following approval of a readiness request, legal arrangements are concluded in the form of a grant ... Conditions. This readiness grant agreement was signed between GCF and Le Centre De Suivi Ecologique (CSE) for readiness activities ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chad CSE
Accreditation Master Agreement between GCF and PROPARCO
This agreement, signed between the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Société De Promotion Et De Participation Pour La Coopération Economique, SA ... in carrying out GCF-approved projects appropriately. Accreditation Master Agreement between GCF and PROPARCO ...
Document > Accreditation Master Agreement PROPARCO
Readiness grant agreement for Gabon (GAB‐RS‐001)
Following approval of a readiness request, legal arrangements are concluded in the form of a grant ... Conditions. This readiness grant agreement was signed between GCF and Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) for readiness activities in Gabon on ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Gabon
Initial investment framework: activity-specific sub-criteria and indicative assessment factors
Adopted by decision B.09/05 (b). Sets out definitions of the Fund's investment criteria, ...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Funds flow in GCF’s first direct access project with Pacific Islands
... the Fund’s contribution of nearly US 23 million to a USD 26.6 million adaptation project in Vanuatu , which topped ... World Risk Report of natural hazards as the most vulnerable nation. FAAs set the legal framework for GCF Accredited Entities to carry out GCF-approved climate ...
Article > Press release Vanuatu SPREP 
GCF Structured Dialogue with Asia
... Dialogue with Asia will be held in Bali, Indonesia, from 26 to 29 April 2017. The gathering will help increase the ... National Designated Authorities (NDAs) and focal points, Accredited Entities, and other country stakeholders. They ... strategies are the best match for GCF support (e.g. INDCs, LEDS, NAPAs, NAMAs, etc.). An important outcome of GCF’s ...
Article > Press release Indonesia 
Global economic prospects and its impact on climate policies, with a special focus on carbon pricing
... the Paris Agreement goals calls for us to employ all possible economic tools to accelerate the decarbonization of our ... Programme for the Corporate Sector - which uses carbon credits to decarbonise heavy industry in 7 countries across ... Following the adoption of the Article 6 rules at COP 26, GCF believes that carbon markets will remain an ...
Article > Speech
Sustainable Investment Management
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GCF results-based payments: Stepping stone to unlock private finance at scale
... improving forest management and measuring such progress; Implementation: implementing activities to reduce emissions ... 1 billion in less than a year . Payments for REDD+ carbon credits, which act de facto as results-based payments, ... the lion’s share of carbon market growth. At COP26 in Glasgow, the UNFCCC further developed key elements of ...
Article > Insights 
Indigenous Peoples
Overview Indigenous Peoples are unique and a distinct stakeholder of GCF. The rights ... to make to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Yet they are also facing serious threats to the realization ... for monitoring, evaluation and reporting.” Photo credit (top): L. Elías / Profonanpe Indigenous Peoples ...
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Climate and Health Co-Investment Facility Coordination Programme
... grant responds to the commitments expressed at COP26 and will support countries in reducing health-related ... promote climate resilient and/or low-carbon investments by leveraging public and private capital. The Programme will also assist a subset of countries in implementing their COP26 Health ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries UNDP