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US climate envoy supports “indispensable” GCF role during climate forum
... the Paris agreement, the Fund was just approving its first projects. Five years later, the GCF has a portfolio of 173 projects in every region in the world, with a total value of over 30 billion. Many of these projects are enabling countries to put new ideas to work and ...
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Addressing the climate crisis: scaling up existing climate innovation and investment
... economic livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people. The projected 2.9 °C to 3.4°C of warming could trigger very ... in search of higher yields should flow to climate friendly projects, particularly in developing countries where the ... an investor will hesitate to invest in a renewable energy project if it takes several years to obtain a sitting ...
Article > Speech
GCF private sector conference explores how to break through finance barriers
... particularly the lack of access to affordable, long-term project finance.” GCF’s fourth private sector-focused ... out GCF’s USD 271.3 million investment in a climate project in his country will support the domestic private ... its private sector partnerships to support large-scale projects while also aiding the most climate vulnerable at ...
Article > Press release 
Cook Islands get major boost in fight against climate change
... national procedures for developing and aligning climate projects with national priorities, better preparing the ... to access finance and implement transformative climate projects. In February 2016, the Cook Islands became the ... their ability to prepare, develop and implement climate projects, these countries are better able to access funding ...
Article > Story Cook Islands 
Ministerial forum on forest finance
... who introduced the previous section. The USD 68 million project implemented by GIZ project and co-financed by GIZ in Lao PDR builds on such a ... safeguards and the rigorous vetting processes leading to project approval. This ensures that GCF finance is ...
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GCF at COP27
... for GCF to affirm its commitment to GGW through supporting projects across GGW countries. November 14 saw the ... the Global Dairy Platform (GDP) approved USD 3.5 million of project preparation funding to support the development of a ... also approved by GCF to receive support from the Fund’s Project Preparation Facility, a major step in the ...
Article > News update 
What do gin and tonic, coffee and mountain climate risks have in common?
... in the future. So far, GCF has approved at least 31 projects in mountainous areas in 26 countries, with a total ... ‘sinking fund’ approach for the ‘Bhutan for Life’ project carried out with WWF is providing the national ... as well as water security. Most of GCF’s projects in mountain ecosystems are designed to restore and ...
Article > Insights 
How can climate action balance the needs of nature and people?
... a recent Green Climate Fund (GCF) fact-finding mission to a project site introducing climate adaptation measures by ...
Article > Article about GCF Uganda 
Themes & result areas
Themes
Our work aims to support paradigm shifts in both climate mitigation and climate adaptation efforts. GCF aims for a 50:50 balance between mitigation and adaptation investments over time...
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Adapting tuna-dependent Pacific Island communities and economies to climate change
On behalf of the Governments of Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Niue, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, Conservation...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries
Policies: Investment
Investment
The GCF’s Investment Framework sets out the parameters which guide GCF’s investment decision-making and its assessment and consideration of Funding Proposals. The Investment Framework establishes the Fund’s...
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Pathways to Dairy Net Zero: Promoting Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Livestock in East Africa
This PPF application will ensure the quality design of the regional programme titled Pathways to Dairy Net Zero: Promoting Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Livestock in East Africa.
It will enable public, private,...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries
MSMEs’ Climate Sound Technologies for Production Efficiency and Business Value in Kenya (MSMEs CST- Kenya)
KCB Bank Kenya Limited (KCB), in collaboration with the Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN), has developed the MSMEs’ Climate Sound Technologies in Kenya programme. This programme aspires to enable MSMEs,...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Kenya
Indigenous Peoples
Overview
Indigenous Peoples are unique and a distinct stakeholder of GCF. The rights of Indigenous Peoples are affirmed by international human rights instruments, including binding treaties and the United Nations...
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Colombian President calls for enhanced public-private climate action
... change. They highlighted the need for climate finance projects that target individual country needs, while also ...
Article > Press release Colombia 
CAF looks past Peru disaster to bank on climate future in Latin America
... equity and guarantees. It provides loans to development projects at longer tenors and lower interest rates than ...
Article > Story Peru 
GCF scopes forest funding path after workshop
... payments. The Fund issues RFPs on an ad hoc basis to seek project ideas for niche areas seen to require climate ...
Article > Press release Indonesia 
Harnessing climate science to guide climate investments
... “GCF wants high impact proposals of paradigm-shifting projects and programmes, and if this requires boosting ...
Article > Press release 
Jamaica and Norway lead countries in call for ambitious replenishment of Green Climate Fund ahead of Climate Action Summit
... as providing readiness support for capacity building to aid project planning and to facilitate access to climate ...
Article > Press release Jamaica Norway 
Keynote for P4G Seoul 2021
... through the Nationally Determined Contributions is projected to result in an increase of temperatures somewhere ... their time and personal resources in an infrastructure project. Similarly, finance providers will demand a higher ... higher in less developed countries in which infrastructure projects would not reach investment grade. We need to ...
Article > Speech
Low Carbon Transport Dominica
... in transport policies and transport services. When the project is implemented there will be a wider net of ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Dominica
Capacity Building to Monitor the Agriculture, Forest and Other Land-Use Sector in the National Determined Contributions, and enhancement of Climate Finance Access in the Plurinational State of Bolivia
... (or Andean Plateau), Chaco and Valles. According to IPPC projections, global warming due to climate change is most ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Strengthen the Process and Capacity of Implementation of National Adaptation Plan of Sri Lanka
... of climate change efficiently and effectively. The proposed project will contribute to achieving the policy objectives ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Sri Lanka
Investing in climate action with GCF
... and private sector financing GCF de-risks transformative projects to crowd-in private finance, notably for ...
Article > Insights 
GCF explores how to strengthen private sector finance at World Forestry Congress
... rainforest. GCF has also approved USD 145 million for projects contributing to implementation of national REDD+ ...
Article > News update 
Enhancing Lesotho’s private sector readiness for a clean energy transition
... greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of Lesotho, and this is projected to rise if the country missed the opportunity to ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Lesotho
GCF hosts first Indigenous Peoples Advisory Group meeting
... indigenous peoples’ consultative capacity in GCF’s projects. “This meeting is a big statement that the ...
Article > News update 
Support for accreditation gap assessment and action plan for the Rwanda Development Bank
... off-grid electrification. The expected outcome of the project is to facilitate the deployment of an estimated ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Rwanda
Executive Director unveils “50by30” blueprint for reform, targeting USD 50 billion by 2030
... accelerate the time it takes to review and approve projects, reorient operations to focus on country and ...
Article > Speech 
Executive Director’s remarks
... of results and indicators to the extent possible. Our project explorer platform which we are launching today is ...
Article > Speech