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The United Republic of Tanzania (URT) is comprised of Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar. There are numerous smaller islands both in the Mainland and Zanzibar. Rising temperatures, longer dry spells, more intense heavy...

This project will be an important contribution to the implementation of Thailand’s national adaptation plan (finalised in 2018), prepared by Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP), and...

Turkmenistan is vulnerable to climate change due to the steady temperature rise and increasing water deficiency. While the changing climate is impacting the entire economy, the water sector that is suffering the most...

Saint Lucia, like many Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean, is already experiencing the negative impacts of climate change. The loss and damage of vital fish nurseries and breeding habitats, such as...

Grenada’s increasing vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards, and risks is disruptive to all of the four pillars of National Food Security i.e., availability, accessibility, utilization/nutrition, and stability....

Argentina has recently prepared a “Situation Analysis of Health and Climate Change”, a “National Action Plan on Climate Change and Health” (PANSyCC) and created political and technical structures to address the topic of...

It is estimated that commercial refrigeration in Brazil accounts for around 25% of the energy consumption in an average supermarket. In fact, international studies indicate that commercial refrigeration could consume...

Brazil presents a comprehensive legal framework that covers climate change and adaptation, as well as a forest code that takes into consideration specificities of different biomes. Nevertheless, the country faces...

Chile is considered by the UNFCCC criteria as a highly vulnerable country to climate change and is making an effort to tackle these circumstances in a systematic way, even in a context of limited financial and human...

Chile’s climate change strategy approaches adaptation through one transversal plan, nine sectoral plans and a series of cross-cutting and inter-sectoral measures, which are defined in the National Adaptation Plan on...

The agriculture, forestry and other land use sector (AFOLU) accounts for 42% of Colombia´s GHG emissions and the largest share of Colombia’s NDC mitigation targets. Yet, the mitigative potential of the sector is far...

Ecuador has developed a robust policy framework on climate change and made several instruments official, including the National Climate Change Strategy (ENCC) and the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), and is...

Adverse socio-economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic have been aggravated by extreme weather events. Against this background, COVID-19 is reversing decades of progress on poverty, healthcare and education,...

Due to its geographical position, Nicaragua is exposed to various events linked to natural climatic variability, such as the ENSO (El Niño-La Niña) phenomenon, the Pacific Monsoon systems, and hurricanes, among others;...

Total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the Republic of Paraguay in 2015 was 75,099.89 Gg CO2eq1. According to the World Resources Institute Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (WRI CAIT), Paraguay’s GHG emissions...

Belize, like many other Small Island Developing States (SIDS), is particularly vulnerable to climate change with limited access to national financial, technological, and technical resources to build the country’s...

Climate change poses an existential threat to countries of the Caribbean region. Primarily, comprised of small islands and low-lying coastal developing states (SIDS), the Caribbean region is considered amongst the most...

The proposed project will contribute to green recovery in two priority climate change sectors, which are also of key importance to rural communities and livelihoods, i.e. energy and agriculture. The project has three...

Georgia as Party to the Paris Agreement within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is in the process of updating its main document - Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) - demonstrating its commitment in...

Serbia is highly exposed and vulnerable to natural hazards as a result of climate change. As stated in the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) the most vulnerable sectors in the Republic of Serbia are...

Azerbaijan is highly vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change. The challenges of sustainable development and protection against climate change are essential in the country. In its first INDC (2017),...

This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP015: Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP). Project and programme funding proposals that have environmental or social...

Ecuador is one of the countries most affected by the effects of climate change, since any increase in the intensity of climate threats such as droughts and floods implies imbalances in natural ecosystems, therefore,...

In Guatemala, forest fires are an important source of GHG emissions. Between 2019-2020, Guatemala registered 1,398 forest fires that affected a total area of 78,129 hectares. Guatemala has identified the increase in...

In the last years, the Government of Uruguay (GoU) continuously increased key stakeholders’ capacities and capabilities to engage with the GCF, with a Country Programme endorsed by the Secretariat in 2021, and advanced...

This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP100: REDD-PLUS results-based payments for results achieved by Brazil in the Amazon biome in 2014 and 2015. Project and...

The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (SKN) is committed to tackling the adverse impacts of climate change through the implementation of ambitious policies and actions enshrined in its Nationally Determined...

Suriname is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The country’s small population, major economic activities, and infrastructure are concentrated along the low-lying, heavily urbanized coastal zone....

National and regional development banks have a huge potential to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate, and to generate green and climate - public and private - finance at scale to address the...

Targeting accredited entities and executing entities as its primary audiences, the GCF’s results handbook aims to provide practical guidance on how to apply the IRMF for GCF-funded projects/programmes through funding...