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FP219 - Staple Crops Processing Zone (SCPZ): Promoting Sustainable Agricultural Value Chains
In Guinea, Senegal and Togo, agriculture and forestry are the primary sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, accounting for over 80 per cent of total emissions. At the same time, these countries are also ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries AfDB 
FP220 - Africa Rural Climate Adaptation Finance Mechanism (ARCAFIM) for East Africa region
In East Africa, climate models predict a continual rise in average temperatures and an increase in the frequency and intensity of heavy rainfall events. This places ... a practical and widely applicable financing model to mobilise private sector investments for rural CCA ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries IFAD 
FP238 - Ecosystems-based Adaptation for resilient Watersheds and Communities in Malawi (EbAM)
Climate change is intensifying Malawi’s challenges in agricultural productivity and ... Over six years, the project will improve the management of 267,500 hectares of land. Additionally, it supports ...
Project > Public sector Malawi FAO 
FP263 - Mirova Sustainable Land Fund 2
Poor land management, particularly deforestation for agriculture, contributes significantly to carbon emissions, worsening global warming and diminishing land productivity. While ... finance for new partners, countries, and technologies. FP263 Costa Rica Ghana Malaysia Morocco Peru Philippines (the) ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries Mirova 
FP257 - RE-GAIN: Scaling solutions for food loss in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa faces unprecedented opportunities and challenges for agricultural transformation, driven by the demands of a rapidly growing population and a changing ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries AGRA 
FP267 - Scaling up ecosystem-based approaches to managing climate-intensified disaster risks in vulnerable regions of South Africa ("Eco-DRR")
South Africa faces significant climate change challenges threatening water resources, agriculture, biodiversity and livelihoods. Droughts, extreme rainfall events, and ... (PPF) for detailed project design and feasibility work. FP267 South Africa 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 906 Scaling up ...
Project > Public sector South Africa SANBI 
FP295 - Establishing Climate Resilient, Regenerative Agricultural (CRRA) systems in Tonga, Vanuatu and Samoa
... change. Their geographic isolation and exposure to extreme hydro-meteorological hazards leave them susceptible to climate shocks. Agriculture remains the backbone of local economies; however, rising temperatures, erratic rainfall ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries SPC 
Private sector financing
... climate crisis is too big, too serious and too urgent to rely on the resources of public institutions alone. Today, the private sector manages more than USD 210 ... and green growth ambitions, the private sector has an unparalleled opportunity to deliver the investment needed to spur ...
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Indigenous Peoples
... of GCF. The rights of Indigenous Peoples are affirmed by international human rights instruments, including binding treaties and ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including in the Cancun Agreement. The preamble of ...
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The Green Climate Fund, the Global Partnership for Education and Save the Children launch the world’s largest investment for green schools at COP28
The Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and Save the Children ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and serves the 2015 Paris Agreement, supporting the ... commitment to ending the world’s learning crisis. GPE mobilizes partners and funds to support nearly 90 ...
Article > Press release 
Green Climate Fund and Meridiam unveil ambition and opportunities for impactful climate investments
... in Paris in early October to identify opportunities to mobilise and scale up capital for more ambitious climate action in ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It serves the 2015 Paris Agreement, supporting the ...
Article > Press release 
Turning down the heat
In Bangladesh, over 33 million children are forced to stay home for days as the sweltering heat makes school too ... a state-run school in Dhaka. “The heat is too much, she already got heat rashes from sweating. I hope she does not ... of the world’s first cooling-focused facilities which has mobilize funds to provide cooling solutions in nine ...
Article > Story Bangladesh WorldBank 
GCF, CABEI, and the European Union unite to finance Costa Rica’s GAM electric train
The Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), and the European Union, through its Global Gateway strategy, have come together to fully finance the ... people and mark a turning point in the history of urban mobility. For his part, the Vice-President of the European ...
Article > News update Costa Rica CABEI 
Green Climate Fund approves first 8 investments
Board gears up to larger scale projects in the near future The Green Climate Fund Board ... Bond Programme in Latin America and the Caribbean, further mobilizing an estimated USD 630 million in private ... by making its first funding decisions ahead of the UNFCCC Paris climate conference. With climate finance being a ...
Article > Press release Zambia 
FP063 - Promoting private sector investments in energy efficiency in the industrial sector and in Paraguay
Reducing reliance on fuelwood and other fossil fuel energy sources by Paraguayan SMEs, increasing their energy ... capacity, yet industry is largely powered by traditionally inexpensive fuelwood (constituting 83 percent of industrial energy use), causing large amount of emissions from wood ...
Project > Public sector Paraguay IDB 
FP064 - Promoting risk mitigation instruments and finance for renewable energy and energy efficiency investments
Scaling up investments by Argentinian Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in renewable energy and energy efficiency. The government of Argentina is ...
Project > Public sector Argentina IDB 
FP067 - Building climate resilience of vulnerable and food insecure communities through capacity strengthening and livelihood diversification in mountainous regions of Tajikistan
Building the adaptive capacity of vulnerable communities in Tajikistan affected by food ... Tajikistan is experiencing increasing temperature and rainfall variability and recurrent natural disasters, particularly droughts and floods. Local ...
Project > Public sector Tajikistan WFP 
SAP002 - Climate services and diversification of climate sensitive livelihoods to empower food insecure and vulnerable communities in the Kyrgyz Republic.
Rural households in Kyrgyzstan are impacted by the climate changes effects of increasing temperatures and more variable rainfall patterns, which increases the risk of floods and ...
Project > Public sector Kyrgyzstan WFP 
FP100 - REDD-PLUS results-based payments for results achieved by Brazil in the Amazon biome in 2014 and 2015
... has been approved under the GCF’s REDD+ results-based payments pilot programme. It provides payments for results ... These results have subsequently been reported to the UNFCCC and undergone technical assessment and are fully compliant with UNFCCC ...
Project > Public sector Brazil UNDP 
Postcard from Katowice: Saturday, December 8
The weekend may have arrived, but negotiations continued throughout ... made, but not quickly enough to achieve the Presidency's goal of closing all the 'non-Paris Agreement' items by today. Those items ...
Article > Press release 
Kyrgyzstan sees GCF partnership as key to its future
Kyrgyzstan views cooperation with the Green Climate Fund as a central plank of its development, one of the mountainous ... Bamsey today. “My country is implementing solutions to deal with this international problem, but we will need to draw ...
Article > Press release Kyrgyzstan 
GCF/B.22/06 - Updated Gender Policy and Action Plan 2019–2021
This document presents an update of the Gender Policy and Action Plan originally adopted in decision B.09/11. This update follows the ... for the period 2018−2020 within which to operationalize the Gender Policy. Recognizing the need for managing ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.13/20 - Status of staffing of the Secretariat – a progress report
The Board is faced with capacity challenges within the Secretariat, with regard to a number ... end of the year. This effort has further brought to light challenges related to compensation. There has been no ...
Board document > Action item
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Egypt through UNEP
Egypt set up its own mechanism to engage all concerned stakeholders through forming a national committee composed of representatives of all ministries ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Egypt UNEP
GCF/B.23/Inf.13 - Updated policy for contributions to the Green Climate Fund
... updated policies for contributions for consideration by the Board and the replenishment process. This document is ... draft of the updated policies for contributions, the original version of which were endorsed by the Board in decision ... be restructured for clarity to help implement and operationalize the policy. This draft is being presented for ...
Board document > Information
SAP009 - Building resilience of urban populations with ecosystem-based solutions in Lao PDR
Strengthening the natural capacity of ecosystems to regulate water flows and limiting the exposure of local populations in vulnerable areas to climate effects. ...
Project > Public sector Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) UNEP 
SAP010 - Multi-Hazard Impact-Based Forecasting and Early Warning System for the Philippines
Scaling up current initiatives on disaster risk reduction and ... to climate hazards, experiencing an average of 19 tropical cyclones annually. Studies project an increase in the ...
Project > Public sector Philippines (the) Landbank 
SAP012 - Inclusive Green Financing for Climate Resilient and Low Emission Smallholder Agriculture
Improving access to credit for smallholder farmers in Niger to implement climate-resilient ... agriculture. Current predictions show that agricultural production in Niger is estimated to drop by 20 percent, threatening the livelihoods of 85 percent of ...
Project > Public sector Niger (the) IFAD 
Agreement with Spanish global investor strengthens GCF’s private sector pull
The Green Climate Fund has increased its ability to tap private sector profits to finance climate action by strengthening its ties with Spanish-based international investor COFIDES. Compañía Española de Financiación ... signed an agreement on Wednesday which lays the legal groundwork for GCF to injects its own catalytic input of ...
Article > Press release COFIDES 
Adaptation planning support for Albania through UNDP
This project is therefore designed to help the Government of Albania increase its capacity to address the country’s climate change vulnerabilities. Specifically, this funding request willsupport Albania to develop a ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Albania UNDP