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GCF Africa Regional Dialogue opens with a focus on regional climate solutions
... finance. With over USD 7 billion invested in 132 African projects, GCF is scaling up its support through streamlined ...
Article > News update Ethiopia 
Agreement signed at Africa Forward Summit to accelerate energy access
... Sustainable & Clean Energy Access Transformation) project, approved by the GCF Board in March 2026, will ...
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Asian private sector ambition key to climate solution, Dialogue finds
... units in every Philippine banking institution to ensure projects subject to financing applications conform to ...
Article > Press release Indonesia 
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Algeria through National Agency on Climate Change
... strategy against climate change and developed numerous projects for adaptation and mitigation of changes climate. ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Algeria
Climate investments critical for post-COVID recovery: GCF conference highlights mobilisation of private capital to green developing economies
... grown into a global marketplace, bringing together leading project developers, financial institutions, governments, ...
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Green Climate Fund: New capital to accelerate investment in global climate action
... Afghanistan, Eritrea and Yemen. “ Hardest to Reach ” project providing affordable and green energy access to ...
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Caribbean countries launch landmark platform to scale up climate investment
... to mobilise the scale of finance we truly need to develop projects and boost our capacity. We must not invest in ...
Article > Press release Barbados 
Management
Management
The Secretariat is headed by the Executive Director, who is appointed by and accountable to the Board. The Secretariat’s senior management team leads the various Offices and Departments of the Secretariat,...
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ED opening remarks
... particularly the lack of access to affordable, long-term project finance. GCF is now a USD 10 billion fund – USD ... to use scarce public resources to de-risk market creating projects and crowd-in private finance. For instance, GCF is ...
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Investment decisions and the climate challenge
... lines or support to access capital markets. Here, our new project Inclusive Green Financing Initiative (IGREENFIN I), ... cooperatives, and micro and small sized enterprises. This project is part of the ambitious Great Green Wall initiative ...
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GCF results-based payments: Stepping stone to unlock private finance at scale
... groundwork for the effective implementation of GCF-funded projects and programmes across forests, land use, and ... also used GCF results-based payments to co-finance a project in collaboration with Italian coffee company Lavazza ...
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41 funders, partners endorse new guiding principles for financing climate and health solutions to protect health
... only 0.5% of multilateral climate funding is allocated to projects that explicitly address human health – and ... country-driven and locally led action, and already fund projects that are improving access to clean water, hygiene, ...
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Committees, panels and groups
Committees, panels and groups
Committees assist the Board in its decision-making, and exercise any delegated authority under the overall authority and direction of the Board. Except for standing committees, all...
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Environmental and social safeguards
Environmental and social safeguards
In carrying out its mandate of promoting a paradigm shift towards low-emission and climate-resilient development pathways in the context of sustainable development, GCF will...
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Country commitments and ambitions
Country commitments and ambitions
Country ownership and a country-driven approach are core principles of GCF. One of our operational priorities is to ensure that the we are responsive to the needs and priorities of...
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GCF boosts COVID-19 low-carbon energy relief with anchor investment
Green Climate Fund (GCF) backing has been crucial in an emergency relief fund launched today that shields clean energy companies in developing countries from COVID-19 economic shocks to keep low-carbon trajectories on...
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GCF and CRDB Bank Plc. sign agreement to boost access to climate adaptation technologies for agribusinesses in Tanzania
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and CRDB Bank Plc. have signed an agreement for a climate adaptation lending facility for smallholder farmers and agribusinesses in the United Republic of Tanzania on the sidelines of the...
Article > News update 
Improving the capacity of Turkmenistan to access climate finance through capacity building and strategic frameworks
Document > Approved readiness proposal Turkmenistan
Document > Approved readiness proposal Turkmenistan
Re-Gain: Scaling solutions for food loss in Africa
According to the FAO, 30%1 of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted along the supply chain every year. In Africa, the losses are even higher, ranging between 30% and 50%. This equates to 1.3 billion2...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries
Policies: Terms of reference
Terms of reference
Policies under this category set out the terms of reference for GCF’s committees, panels and groups, independent units and the trustee.
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Executive Director Keynote Speech
... scientists were already saying at the time were dim projections of impacts, we were going to see the planet ... We are making strides in terms of reducing the time from project approval to first disbursement. We've come down from ... lower median time. We have also committed to reducing our project cycle from more than 24 months to nine months as of ...
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GCF’s first private sector conference boosts business role in climate finance
... will be bolstered by good returns. GCF is investing in a project run by Acumen that is designed to improve the ...
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UN forum side event highlights need for GCF replenishment
... unique position to bring the private sector in" to climate projects. Jamaica’s Minister of Finance and the Public ...
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GCF launches climate finance report during Seoul P4G summit
... to invest 3.8 percent of our GDP by 2025 in Green New Deal projects, including green infrastructure, renewable energy, ...
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GCF boosts SIDS early warning systems to avert climate-related disasters
... funding towards critical early warning and other adaptation projects. Adele Young, Coordinator of the Early Warnings ...
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Preparation of Strategic Framework to Reduce Deforestation and Forest Degradation and enhance adaptive capacity in the Bahamas
... Gender dimensions have been integrated throughout the project to ensure that gender issues of climate change are ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bahamas
The Green Climate Fund, the Global Partnership for Education and Save the Children launch the world’s largest investment for green schools at COP28
... will expand its investment pool of school infrastructure projects that GCF, GPE and other donors, including the ...
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Moving from planning to action: The NDC partnership and the Green Climate Fund launch the Climate Investment Planning and Mobilization Framework
... Adaptation Plans, and other climate strategies into projects and investments on the ground. To support countries ...
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ED remarks, Interactive Dialogue 4: The Future Starts Now: enhancing the global system for current and future generations
... capital, streamlining systems, and shifting from individual projects to ambitious programs and partnerships. We are ...
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