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Annual Results Report 2021
... results report 2021 Promoting low emission, climate-resilient recovery and maintaining climate ambitions during the ... 0 Developing countries with approved projects 0 Projects under implementation worth USD 1.9b of GCF funding 0 GCF ... as an operating entity of the Financial Mechanism of the UNFCCC and to contribute to realising the ambitions of ...
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Energy transition accelerates with GCF support
... partnership in Egypt. The transition to low-emission, renewable energy is crucial if we are to meet the Paris ... within their Nationally Determined Contribution ( NDC ) under the Paris Agreement, but translating these ambitions into action is not straightforward. A supportive policy ...
Article > Press release Egypt Kazakhstan 
Ministers call for successful GCF replenishment at HLPF
Panellists at the Green Climate Fund (GCF) high-level event at the UN High-level ... role in helping developing countries meet their commitments under the Paris Agreement and called for an ambitious GCF ... of the International Development Finance Club (IDFC), with which GCF recently signed a partnership agreement, ...
Article > Press release Norway Rwanda 
Green Climate Fund Board commits an additional USD 407.8 million to combat climate crisis
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is now financing climate action in ... Tanzania) (FP122) The following projects were also approved under the Simplified Approval Process (SAP): USD 9.7 ... for women and men smallholders in Mozambique through integrated risk management with WFP (SAP011) USD 9.4 million ...
Article > Press release 
Green Climate Fund Board maintains climate momentum in midst of COVID-19 by approving USD 878.8 million of new funds
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) continues empowering developing ... Yannick Glemarec stated: “GCF has a key role to play to maintain climate ambition in the era of COVID-19. This ... with EBRD (FP140) The following projects were also approved under the Simplified Approval Process (SAP): USD 10.0 ...
Article > Press release 
Barbados, Belize PMs hail ‘essential’ GCF role in Caribbean
... twin threats of climate change and COVID-19 during the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF's) Regional Dialogue with the ... act quickly to make up for delays in financing commitments under the Paris Agreement, climate refugees fleeing the ... Jules. Regional climate impacts in the Caribbean have intensified at the same time as COVID-19 took root. In ...
Article > Press release 
A ‘vaccine’ for tropical forests?
International Forests Day, 21 March Elon Musk tweeted ... technology”. Out of 600 thousand likes and retweets, twenty thousand corresponded to a brilliant solution: “A ... to cool down: We sweat. Now imagine the tropical forests under an intense equatorial heat, with their leaves drying ...
Article > Insights 
GCF launches climate finance report during Seoul P4G summit
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has launched a new report on how ... recovery. GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec introduced the report, “Scaling up climate finance in the ... planning to update its Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement to align with its commitment of ...
Article > Press release 
GCF forum at COP26 finds big investment rise needed to decarbonise energy paths
Maintaining a 1.5 degrees Celsius global guardrail will ... require a fourfold increase of annual clean power investments by 2030, with the bulk of upscaled financing needed in ... Warwick said keeping to a 1.5 Celsius temperature rise under the Paris Agreement required a shift to a ...
Article > Press release 
Reflections by GCF experts on latest IPCC report – a glimmer of hope?
On 28 February 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released ... million climate-related deaths by the end of this century under a high emissions scenario. The new report places a ...
Article > Insights 
GCF publishes revised timeline for B.32 and tentative timeline for B.33
... meeting (B.33) from 27 to 30 June 2022. Towards this end, the revised timelines and key time periods for B.32 and ... June 2022 B.33 27 to 30 June 2022 In light of various steps undertaken within the Secretariat before submission to ... on the GCF website , which supports the application of the Integrated Results Management Framework (IRMF) by accredited ...
Article > News update 
Green Climate Fund Board approves USD 325.2 million and policies for accelerated climate action
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board has closed its 32nd meeting, ... countries. The following project was also approved under the SAP: USD 10.0 million for Pakistan Distributed ... Bank, based in the Republic of Korea Conservation International, based in the United States Green Climate Fund ...
Article > Press release 
Readiness Support to Capacitate Rwanda’s Subnational Level Actors in Green Growth and Climate Resilience
... proposal seeks to increase the capacity of Rwanda Government’s Thematic Sector Working Groups (TSWGs) with a focus ... as well as the last mile implementers and beneficiaries to understand and integrate climate resilient development in their daily work. ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Rwanda
Readiness Support for the Development of Vanuatu National Energy Efficiency Strategy and Action Plan
In its NDC, Vanuatu’s planned mitigation intervention includes energy efficiency (EE) measures to be ... and reliable energy, sustainable energy and green growth. Under the sustainable energy pillar, renewable energy (RE) ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Vanuatu
GCF publishes timelines for B.34 and B.35
... meeting (B.35) from 13 to 16 March 2023. Towards this end, the timelines and key time periods for B.34 and B.35 ... 2023* B.35 13 to 16 March 2023 In light of various steps undertaken within the Secretariat before submission to ... on the GCF website , which supports the application of the Integrated Results Management Framework (IRMF) by accredited ...
Article > News update 
Enhancing Direct Access to Climate Finance in Fiji – Phase 2
... shortage of water and higher infrastructure costs.1 The current average asset losses due to tropical cyclones and floods ... to achieve the adaptation and mitigation goals and put into action the investments which have been articulated. ... building and project pipeline development which was done under Phase 1. The solutions this Readiness proposal aims to ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Fiji
Advancing the National Adaptation Plan of the Maldives
... of the smallest atoll island nations globally. The government of Maldives has expressed concerns about the impacts of ... the existing problems of beach erosion and salt-water intrusion, threatening the country’s limited freshwater ... country’s tourism and fisheries sectors which, together, underpin the economy of the country. In response to the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Maldives
Ocean20: A new self-funded marine resource management framework
The Government of Indonesia, with the support of Green Climate Fund, Conservation International, and Konservasi Indonesia, announced a new ... at odds: environmental protection and economic production. Under the Blue Halo S initiative, the economic benefits of ...
Article > Press release 
Mainstreaming Climate Resilience into Water Sector Planning, Development and Operations in Saint Lucia
... Company to respond to climate change. Inadequate development of a pipeline of projects for climate resilient ... and the utility continues to face human resource constraints. At this point WASCO has embarked on various ... readiness will build upon previous initiatives. Activities under this readiness initiative are designed to support the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Saint Lucia
Green and Resilient Debt Platform for Africa and LDCs
Despite the fact that Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Namibia, Senegal, and other African countries and LDCs ... of issuances in 2021. African countries face exorbitant interest rates, essentially shutting them out from global capital markets because of a number of underlying barriers that increase investor risks. These ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries
GCF publishes timelines for B.36
... meeting (B.36) from 10 to 13 July 2023. Towards this end, the timelines and key time periods for B.36 are ... annual work programme. In light of various steps undertaken within the Secretariat before submission to ... on the GCF website , which supports the application of the Integrated Results Management Framework (IRMF) by accredited ...
Article > News update 
Keynote speech by ED a.i.
... for their invitation. COP27 called for a global commitment to prioritize and strengthen climate education as an ... climate projects. These opportunities can be translated into action only if financing is available and through ... billion in GCF resources and USD 45 million of total assets under management, GCF is the world’s largest dedicated ...
Article > Speech
GCF’s 2024-2027 Strategic Plan sets out greater ambitions and results for critical global climate action
The 2024-2027 Strategic Plan of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) was successfully adopted at the 36th ... of its first programming period 2020-2023 (GCF-1) and is undergoing replenishment for its next programming period ... greater access for developing countries as the world heads into a critical decade for global climate action. It was ...
Article > News update 
GCF Regional Dialogue with Latin America sets to further accelerate climate action in the region
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Regional Dialogue with Latin America ... of 12 Direct Access Entities , representatives of International Accredited Entities active in the region, ... ultimately access. The revised Readiness Strategy, which is under development, was shared with the participants. The ...
Article > News update 
GCF publishes timelines for B.37
... meeting, the GCF Board confirmed to hold its thirty-seventh meeting (B.37) from 23 to 25 October 2023. Towards this ... annual work programme. In light of various steps undertaken within the Secretariat before submission to ... on the GCF website , which supports the application of the Integrated Results Management Framework (IRMF) by accredited ...
Article > News update 
Sacred plant helps forge a climate-friendly future in Paraguay
... and yerba mate trees to accelerate climate action For generations, the Ava Guaraní, one of the Indigenous Peoples ... religious ceremonies, it is always present." PROEZA taps into community knowledge and ancestral wisdom. The community ... Conserving nature When grown together with other trees and under their shade, yerba mate is an asset for conserving the ...
Article > Story Paraguay 
Pioneering Barbados water project kick starts
The Green Climate Fund and the Government of Barbados today ... communities without adding further public debt.’ Under the leadership of the Government of Barbados, the ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It serves the 2015 Paris Agreement, supporting the ...
Article > Press release Barbados 
Ecuador’s bold bet on mangroves: A climate solution rooted in community and capital
... ECUADOR — On the edge of the Pacific, where land blurs into water and roots tangle beneath the tide, Ecuador’s mangrove forests stand as some ... more than a third of these forests have disappeared under pressure from aquaculture. Led by Ecuador’s ...
Article > Story Ecuador 
Hope for the Amazon: Stories of resilience, empowerment, and conservation
... world's "mega-diverse" countries, with an extraordinary concentration of plant and animal species despite its relatively ... cloud forests – host exceptional biodiversity but are under threat. Agriculture, a primary source of income for ... and livestock are being sold through traceable, profitable international markets. Partnerships with companies like ...
Article > Story Ecuador 
Green Climate Fund approves first 8 investments
... gears up to larger scale projects in the near future The Green Climate Fund Board today approved USD 168 million of GCF ... by making its first funding decisions ahead of the UNFCCC Paris climate conference. With climate finance being a ... she explained. “There are many more projects under development in GCF’s pipeline, and we are at last ...
Article > Press release Zambia 