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Keynote for P4G Seoul 2021
... need climate finance. And today, I am proud to be able to launch a GCF's publication to contribute to the dialogue on how we can achieve this: ... trillion of negative-yielding debt in OECD countries and $26 trillion of low carbon, climate resilient investment ...
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Annual Report 2023
... Yet global crises such as geopolitical tensions, armed conflicts, high inflation, and energy shortages threaten to ... in response to the intensifying climate crisis. Besides UNFCCC and UNDP, GCF is part of an interim secretariat for the ... 253.7 m Beneficiaries 194.5 m Increase local resilience SAP026 Extended Community Climate Change Project-Drought ...
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Addressing the climate crisis: scaling up existing climate innovation and investment
Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Good afternoon. At the onset, I would ... cross the 2.0 °C threshold at the very beginning of the second half of the century. The full implementation of all the ... and build global momentum in the leadup to the pivotal COP26 in Glasgow at the end of the year. A key challenge is to ...
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Eighth meeting of the GCF Board (B.08)
... expected impacts of the Fund in initial result areas Board flagship projects cutting across adaptation result areas ... on readiness and preparatory support Financial terms and conditions of grants and concessional loans Use of other financial instruments ...
Event > Board meeting
Traditional Savanna Fire Management Readiness Proposal to facilitate Emissions Reductions in the AFOLU sector in Belize
... national commitments and strategies, has identified the land sector as important to its climate change mitigation ... of the key strategic aims identified was to “ensure the conservation, utilization and sustainable use of forest ... season wildfire in Belize occurs on a significant scale and contributes to biodiversity loss, expedites de-afforestation ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Belize
ED lecture
... woman ahead of her time, a visionary woman who first articulated sustainable development and its vital link to economic progress, laying the groundwork for modern ... adaptation crisis is already upon is. Today, disasters push 26 million people into poverty each year . And today, low ...
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The voices of Datem del Marañón: Protecting one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world
... Marañón, located in northern Peru, is home to one of the largest and most biodiverse peatlands not only in Peru, but ... province is home to a diverse ecosystem with more than 261 species of birds, unique marine life, and aguaje, one of ... community in the Datem del Marañón province, fishing is considered a traditional and ancestral communal activity, a ...
Article > Story Peru 
Green Climate Fund: USD 736 million for new projects and readiness strategy to accelerate climate action
The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) concluded its thirty-seventh meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia ... total of USD 3.6 billion when co-financing is included. The last Board meeting of the year brings GCF programming in ... in Barbados with International Finance Corporation (IFC). SAP030: Strengthening Climate Resilience of the Lao ...
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GCF support to the Great Green Wall
... Senegal coast in the west to Sudan in the east is particularly vulnerable to climate change ( Figure 1 ). ... landscape project spanning 8,000 km across the continent to restore 100 million hectares of the continent's degraded landscapes, combat desertification, and ...
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Supporting developing countries on the road to a climate-resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic
... climate change. Decisions taken by leaders today to revive economies will have crucial implications for targets ... Development Goals (SDGs). Developing countries are particularly vulnerable to compound risks from climate change and ... the Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator (AFCIA) implemented by the United Nations Development ...
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