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Strategic Regional Readiness to Enable Resilience of Mesoamerica’s 5 Great Forests and Communities
... regions to climate change, and is already experiencing longer, drier, and hotter dry seasons and more frequent tropical storms and hurricanes. Climate change has ... as well as increased NDC ambitions for announcement in COP26 in Glasgow and beyond. The direct beneficiaries of the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
Innovation and cooperation for global carbon neutrality
... the Korean Government on their efforts to accelerate global efforts towards a carbon-neutral future. The decision ... the momentum for climate action in the build-up to the COP26 meeting last December. But the climate challenge remains ... that while renewable energy grew by 6% last year, the global demand for electricity surged by the same amount. As a ...
Article > Speech
Making blended finance work for adaptation
... Programme estimates that adaptation costs in developing countries are five to ten times greater than current public adaptation finance flows. Working together, the public and private sectors have ... 56 million Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund, including USD 26 million in GCF financing. ARAF will benefit 10 million ...
Article > Speech
GCF explores how to strengthen private sector finance at World Forestry Congress
... the forest sector. A major part of GCF’s support involves looking for ways to bring the public and private sectors ... forest-focused symposium and is held every six years. Following a one-year delay because of COVID-19, the year’s ... ways to support the USD 1.7 billion pledge made during COP26 and directed towards Indigenous Peoples and local ...
Article > News update 
GCF partners with Save the Children on major Vanuatu climate resilience project
... change adaption project in Vanuatu. The signing follows swiftly after the project’s approval at the most ... nearly USD 37 million, includes a GCF grant of over USD 26 million, with additional co-financing from the ... smallholder farmers in climate-resilient agriculture techniques and fishers in effective coastal resource management. ...
Article > News update Vanuatu 
Strengthening the NDA’s climate change governance structure to increase the level of ambition of the climate change agenda and enhance access to climate finance
... is considered among the most vulnerable to climatic consequences. While taking steps towards long-term low-carbon development, Togo faces several gaps in ... amounts of annual climate finance flow estimated at USD 26 million on average between 2013-2018. The situation has ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Togo
Delivering at speed: 12 new projects ready for implementation
... disbursement shortly after the agreements are signed. Following project approval, the project agreement, known as the ... for 22 projects, bringing the year’s total to USD 3.26 billion. GCF’s portfolio currently comprises 336 ... emphasise the Fund’s commitment to deliver support to developing countries as it heads to COP30 in Belem, Brazil. The ...
Article > News update 
Asian private sector ambition key to climate solution, Dialogue finds
... public sector-funded climate action, GCF’s Structured Dialogue with Asia has concluded. Reflecting the key role of ... tapping the profit-seeking dynamics of corporations to fund low-carbon energy solutions. GCF brought together ... Accredited Entities - to the Indonesian island of Bali on 26 to 29 April to explore climate finance priorities and ...
Article > Press release Indonesia 
Growing ambition: the role of the Green Climate Fund in scaling up finance for climate action
... year by 2050.” He then raised the biggest unanswered question in climate finance : why does adaptation currently ... We are the largest dedicated climate fund supporting developing countries and the GCF accounted for two thirds of all ... who announced USAID’s new strategy to be unveiled at COP26, which will be mainstreaming climate into all aspects of ...
Article > Press release 
Green stimulus in the post COVID-19 era and beyond
... path to carbon neutrality and its contribution to global efforts to maintain climate ambition in the era of ... most important problem of our generation". Next year’s UNFCCC Conference of Parties will be critical for climate ... countries alone are estimated at between $11 to US$ 26 trillion between now and 2030, but barriers to investment ...
Article > Speech
Adaptation Fund, Green Climate Fund Convene First Community of Practice Meeting of Direct Access Entities to Climate Finance
... and enhance Direct Access to climate finance for developing countries that are vulnerable to climate change, the ... Adaptation Fund (AF), Green Climate Fund (GCF), African Development Bank (AfDB) and South African National Biodiversity ... through early warning systems and climate-smart techniques. “As an accredited entity of both the Adaptation Fund ...
Article > Press release United States 
Cook Islands get major boost in fight against climate change
How GCF helps Small Island Developing States to access cash to address critical capacity gaps The Cook Islands are a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) in the South Pacific Ocean, with around ... for investment. Of this overall amount, NDAs/FPs may request up to USD 300,000 per year in direct support to help ...
Article > Story Cook Islands 
GCF at COP29 summary
... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). One of COP29’s key outcomes was the New Collective ... finance. The NCQG decision agreed to triple finance to developing countries to USD 300 billion annually by 2035, up ... that a share of the finance delivered through the UNFCCC’s financing arms will be significantly scaled up. As ...
Article > News update Azerbaijan 
Catalysing transformative climate resilient infrastructure through private investment
... USD 5 million – USD 75 million equity investments into low-emission, climate resilient solutions in the ... Action reiterated the UN Secretary General’s call for COP26 to deliver breakthroughs on adaptation and resilience - ... ago. “The SnCF is a partnership that highlights the unique features of GCF and our ability to work with different ...
Article > Press release 
GCF private sector conference explores how to break through finance barriers
The removal of barriers hindering global financial flows to developing countries could solve the climate finance paradox by unleashing USD 26 trillion in new climate investments by 2030. This was one ... the climate crisis. Costa Rica President Carlos Alvarado Quesada said the dangerous acceleration of global heating ...
Article > Press release 
ED opening remarks
His Excellency Mr Carlos Carlos Alvarado Quesada, President of the Republic of ... is very timely coming just two weeks before the start of COP26 in Glasgow. The role of the private sector in addressing ... 2019. Ultimately though, this climate finance under the UNFCC needs to be used in a highly catalytic way so that we ...
Article > Speech
Annual Results Report 2021
Annual results report 2021 Promoting low emission, climate-resilient recovery and maintaining ... released in 2021 and more During GCF’s side event at COP26, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum (Fiji Attorney General and Economy ... as an operating entity of the Financial Mechanism of the UNFCCC and to contribute to realising the ambitions of ...
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GCF/B.22/Inf.09 - Report on the execution of the 2018 administrative budget of the GCF
This document presents a review of the execution of the 2018 administrative budget of the GCF. It is based on actual expenditures relating to activities of the Board, Independent Units and the Secretariat for the year 1...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.21/10/Add.33 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum XXXIII Funding proposal package for SAP002
This addendum contains the following seven parts: A funding proposal titled “Climate ... or focal point(s); Environmental and social report(s) disclosure; Secretariat’s assessment of the funding proposal; ...
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GCF/B.21/10/Add.13 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum XIII Funding proposal package for FP094
This addendum contains the following three parts: A funding proposal summary titled ... focal point(s); and Environmental and social report(s) disclosure; The funding proposal package for FP094 is being ...
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GCF/B.21/10/Add.12 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum XII Funding proposal package for FP093
This addendum contains the following three parts: A funding proposal summary titled ... focal point(s); and Environmental and social report(s) disclosure; The funding proposal package for FP093 is being ...
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GCF/B.21/10/Add.11 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum XI Funding proposal package for FP092
This addendum contains the following three parts: A funding proposal summary titled “Programme for integrated development and adaptation to climate change in the Niger Basin ... focal point(s); and Environmental and social report(s) disclosure; The funding proposal package for FP092 is being ...
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GCF/B.21/10/Add.10 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum X Funding proposal package for FP091
This addendum contains the following three parts: A funding proposal summary titled ... focal point(s); and Environmental and social report(s) disclosure; The funding proposal package for FP091 was formerly ...
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GCF/B.21/10/Add.09 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum IX Funding proposal package for FP090
This addendum contains the following three parts: A funding proposal summary titled ... focal point(s); and Environmental and social report(s) disclosure; The funding proposal package for FP090 was formerly ...
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GCF/B.21/10/Add.08 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum VIII Funding proposal package for FP089
This addendum contains the following three parts: A funding proposal summary titled ... focal point(s); and Environmental and social report(s) disclosure; The funding proposal package for FP089 was formerly ... at its twentieth meeting and it is noted that the following changes have been made to: No-objection letter (newly ...
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GCF/B.21/10/Add.06 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum VI Funding proposal package for FP087
This addendum contains the following three parts: A funding proposal summary titled ... focal point(s); and Environmental and social report(s) disclosure; The funding proposal package for FP087 was formerly ...
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GCF/B.21/10/Add.05 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum V Funding proposal package for FP086
This addendum contains the following three parts: A funding proposal summary titled ... focal point(s); and Environmental and social report(s) disclosure; The funding proposal package for FP086 was formerly ... at its twentieth meeting and it is noted that the following changes have been made to: Funding proposal with ...
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GCF/B.21/10/Add.04 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum IV Funding proposal package for FP085
This addendum contains the following three parts: A funding proposal summary titled ... focal point(s); and Environmental and social report(s) disclosure; The funding proposal package for FP085 is being ...
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GCF/B.21/10/Add.03 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum III Funding proposal package for FP084
This addendum contains the following three parts: A funding proposal summary titled ... focal point(s); and Environmental and social report(s) disclosure; The funding proposal package for FP084 was formerly ...
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GCF/B.21/10/Add.01 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum I Funding proposal package for FP082
This addendum contains the following three parts: A funding proposal summary titled “Catalyzing Climate Finance (Shandong Green Development Fund)”; No-objection letter issued by the national ... or focal point(s); Environmental and social report(s) disclosure; The funding proposal package for FP082 is being ...
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