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Tackling adversity with diversity key to climate response, says GCF workshop participant
... best ways to deal with recurring droughts and floods in Argentina is to diversify land management, a government agency ... move away from monocultures to a varied form of land use that includes a variety of different crops and livestock ... at the end of last year, and many soybean plots remaining underwater after unseasonably heavy rainfall during the ...
Article > Press release Argentina 
GCF launches Executive Director recruitment process
The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has launched the process to recruit a ... action on climate change. The Executive Director, operating under the guidance of the Board, will work to achieve the ... the Trustee, the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, observer organisations and other stakeholders – to ...
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No objection letter template
... to modify the no-objection procedure ( B.41/02 ) came into effect immediately upon adoption on 20 February 2025, and we strongly encourage the use of the updated template for all NOLs ... : For NOLs that have already been obtained or are currently under consideration by national designated authorities ...
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GCF and World Bank kick off hydropower project in Solomon Islands
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the World Bank have signed an agreement to implement the Tina River ... 2019 for the Pacific Resilience Project, which is now under implementation, in the Marshall Islands. Solomon ...
Article > Press release Solomon Islands 
New Climate Investment Platform targets increase in flow of capital to clean energy projects
... to country needs to mobilise low-carbon, climate-resilient investments, a new global public good announced today ... in developing countries. Progress will be presented at UNFCCC COP 25 in December 2019. The service offered by the CIP ... can deliver 90 per cent of the emission reductions needed under the Paris Agreement, but investment and deployment ...
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Responding to the impacts of the COVID-19 global pandemic: Interlinkages between people, planet and prosperity
... implications the world faces if we don't. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is committed to ensuring that the ... improve developing countries' ability to develop proposals. Internally, GCF has taken a number of measures to mitigate ... COVID-19 while continuing to support developing countries under new conditions. All GCF staff members, with few ...
Article > Press release 
R2RP Readiness
... 160 km from the nearest landmass. Every year, between June and November, Barbados and the other countries in ... from extreme weather events, the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns of ... Land use, and Ecosystems Management. The thematic areas under the R2RP are aligned to Barbados’ NDC priority ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Barbados
Project Preparation Funding for Securing Permanent Forests to Combat Climate Change and Enhance Sustainable National and Local Economies in Cameroon
... the full proposal of the project titled “Securing Permanent Forests to Combat Climate Change and Enhance Sustainable National and Local Economies ... and accountable for the implementation of all activities under this PPF. IUCN will therefore receive and manage the ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Cameroon
Increasing the ambition of the Nationally Determined Contributions and climate financing in the Central America
This proposal will enhance the technical, institutional, and operational ... and accelerating social, political, and economic interdependence amongst countries in the process. In this ... with Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) requirements under the Paris Agreement, (iv) lack of financial and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
Development of Guyana’s National Climate Finance Strategy, MRV System and Project Pipeline to Support NDC Implementation
Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) was launched in 2009 and later updated ... (draft). At the same time, Guyana’s finance landscape is undergoing major changes due to recent oil discoveries. The ... Change (OECC) to improve the quality of Guyana’s UNFCCC reporting obligations. the improvement of National GHGs ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Guyana
Institutionalizing a common framework for climate finance MRV to enhance complementarity and coherence for climate action in CARICOM States
Crowding in finance around a coordinated package of investments that will address key climate vulnerabilities and build ... received. Through the enhanced transparency framework, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Biennial Transparency Reports will be required from ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
National Adaptation Planning for Integrated Water Resources Management in Belize
... resources. However, the office faces several constraints including limited technical capacities, human resources, and knowledge to design, implement and maintain innovative adaptation technologies ... society organizations; and the private sector. Activities under this readiness are designed to support: Outcome 3.1: ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Belize
Developing a pipeline of climate smart and resilient projects involving the private sector, and further strengthening the NDA
In 2018/2019, Senegal has prepared its first Country Program, in line with ... to be done, especially to translate the country programme into high quality projects, to ensure that national ... to fully operationalize the systems and procedures prepared under the first readiness grant. During the implementation ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Senegal
Building project pipeline capacities: Development of GCF concept notes in the transport and health sectors in Thailand
To enable the development of priority climate change projects ... and to access the necessary financial sources, including international funds, for their implementation. The health ... the following groups of actors: Sectoral agencies, e.g., under the Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Transport, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Thailand
Support for Formulation of Palau’s First National Adaptation Plan (NAP)
... approach to climate change adaptation planning and implementation through a vertically and horizontally comprehensive ... for the Palau Climate Change Policy, which is currently under development with support from a different GCF ... research and stakeholder consultations can be grouped into 4 areas: i) barriers related to adaptation governance ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Palau
Strengthening Strategic Framework and Institutional Capacity to Enhance Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) Implementation in Saint Kitts and Nevis
As a Small Island Developing State (SIDS), Saint Kitts and Nevis is vulnerable to the impacts of climate ... through the reduction of precipitation and the occurrence of heavy rainfall periods. Other impacts of climate ... and efficiency implementing climate resilience activities under its NDC implementation plan and from achieving its NDC ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Saint Kitts and Nevis
GCF at COP28
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) will be at COP28, which runs from 30 ... newsletter to stay tuned. As a main operating entity under the financial mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), GCF takes guidance from the Conference of Parties ...
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NDA Strengthening and Country Programming (Phase 3)
This Readiness Project seeks to continue the momentum of Tonga’s NDA Strengthening & Country Programming ... in alignment with achieving the objectives of Tonga’s Joint National Action Plan on Climate Change & Disaster Risk ... and plans; strengthen climate finance tracking (set up under Phase 2 of the readiness project); and document and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Tonga
Enhancing access to climate finance for small island developing states
... island developing states (SIDS) are an exceptionally heterogeneous group of countries. But they all have one thing in ... a key exponent in establishing the Green Climate Fund (GCF) under the UNFCCC’s finance mechanism. Since becoming operational in ...
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Green Climate Fund announces commitment to mobilise USD 100 million for Chad
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has announced an accelerated programme ... provide further capacity-building support to the government under its Readiness Programme, helping to coordinate climate ... Following the meetings, a communiqué and a joint declaration were made by Hassan Bakhit Djamous, Minister ...
Article > Press release Chad 
Accelerating climate action: Seven new climate projects ready for delivery
Seven new projects are ready for implementation after their ... signed for four projects that were submitted and approved under GCF’s Simplified Approval Process (SAP) . In ... in Priority Areas of Ecuador - FORECCSA+ with Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture ...
Article > News update 
Structured Dialogue with Latin America
The Green Climate Fund's Structured Dialogue with Latin America, ... Country programmes build on NDC commitments and turn those into a practical programme of climate-related activities ... discussing their interest in bringing proposals for support under this new GCF programme to protect forests. Some of the ...
Event > Structured dialogue Colombia 
ED opening remarks
His Excellency Mr Carlos Carlos Alvarado Quesada, President of the ... below 1.5C above pre- industrial levels, as required under the Paris Agreement. The following month, the UN ... 2019. Ultimately though, this climate finance under the UNFCC needs to be used in a highly catalytic way so that we ...
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GCF-1 Progress Report
GCF-1 progress report GCF’s first replenishment period 2020-2023 Download Report Sorry, your ... finance for climate solutions Established in 2010 under the Cancún Agreements as a dedicated financing ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement. From 2015 to 2019, during its ...
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Terms and conditions
Terms and conditions for the use of the Green Climate Fund's Website The website of the Green Climate Fund (“the Website”), along with the ... content and documents contained thereon ("Materials") is maintained and administered by the Green Climate Fund ("GCF"), ...
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Access funding
... It is designed to help developing countries and Accredited Entities design climate project proposals for GCF funding, ... as well as to describe how GCF reviews, approves, and implements climate projects. The section includes pages describing ... the Green Climate Fund (GCF) or any of its representatives that come with grant, funds, compensation, or partnership ...
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ED opening remarks
Your Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies, and gentlemen, Please ... projects. We have a maturing portfolio with 81% of projects under implementation. We supported 141 developing countries ... for around 2-3% of global climate finance flows under the UNFCCC; 0.5% of total climate finance flows; and less than ...
Article > Speech
Fourteen new Country Platforms announced in collaboration with GCF to drive country-led climate solutions
... in a major step forward to align global support and investments with national priorities, 14 developing countries and ... with GCF, with the intention that they will be supported under its Readiness Programme - the largest climate action ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and serves the 2015 Paris Agreement. To fulfil its ...
Article > Press release Brazil 
GCF funded India solar rooftop programme kicks off
A first disbursement of USD 50 million marks the start of the implementation ... project in the country to NABARD, which was converted into Indian Rupee and on-lent to TATA Cleantech Capital ... to decarbonise the economy and meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement. India, which is currently the ...
Article > Press release India 
GCF's first REDD+ results-based payment boosts financial incentive to protect forests
The Green Climate Fund's recent decision to pay Brazil USD 96.5 ... point in helping turn REDD+ from a topic of years of UNFCCC negotiations into payments for achievement of past ... million it receives from GCF for REDD+ activities that come under its Nationally Determined Contribution ( NDC ) as a ...
Article > Press release Brazil 