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FP283 - Glaciers to Farms (G2F) Regional Program: Advancing Climate Resilience & Sustainable Development in Central and West Asia
... Glacier systems in the Pamir and Tien Shan ranges are retreating rapidly; projections indicate over 50 per cent of ... by 2100. This cryosphere meltdown is disrupting water cycles, threatening the livelihoods and food security of over 340 million people across nine countries. The most vulnerable are women, ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries 
Dialogue prioritises increased climate investment to address fragility and conflict
... Climate Fund’s (GCF) Sub-Regional Dialogue with Fragile and Conflict-Affected States in the Middle East has heard ... climate finance for fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS). In 2025, GCF committed almost half a billion dollars ... being an operational entity. “We’ve achieved a lot, yet we still have a lot to do and a lot to deliver. We can ...
Article > News update Oman 
Accelerating climate action: Seven new climate projects ready for delivery
Seven new projects are ready for implementation after their project agreements were signed on ... the margins of the Green Climate Fund’s 44th Board meeting (B.44) . Following the approval of 18 new projects at B.44, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and its Accredited Entity partners immediately signed Funded Activity ...
Article > News update 
FP291 - ASCENT-GREEN: Resilient Energy Access for Inclusive Development
Eastern and Southern Africa are highly vulnerable to climate change, facing recurrent droughts, floods, ... million by 2050, placing growing pressure on already overstretched infrastructure. In 2023, around 365 million people lacked access to electricity and 580 million lacked ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries 
GCF leadership forum helps turn COVID-19 recovery into cause for climate hope
A high-profile group of heads of states, government ministers and UN ... countries to build financial solutions that are targeted to produce positive effects in the way we contribute to ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary. Ms Espinosa added that COVID-19 ...
Article > Press release 
US climate envoy supports “indispensable” GCF role during climate forum
... support to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) as an “indispensable player” in financing global endeavours to achieve the ... for USD 1.25 billion in funding for GCF during this budget cycle,” he added. Stressing the urgency of enhancing ... across four regions. Conservation International CEO M. Sanjayan highlighted the way that nature-based climate ...
Article > Press release 
GCF support to the Amazon
... 123 billion tonnes of carbon, the Amazon plays a crucial role in global climate regulation. It also is home to more than 30 million people, providing numerous Indigenous Peoples and local communities with livelihoods, a safety net against poverty, and the means to ensure resilience ...
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Readiness and preparatory support to operationalize the Climate Smart Resilient Island (CSRI) Initiative across Small Island Developing States
... state nations across the world face similar development challenges caused and intensified by climate change. To counter ... the implementation of their ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). There is huge potential for ... partner countries’ NDAs access to a user-friendly website serving as a communication and knowledge platform for ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Maldives
Bridging the climate-health gap
... to the World Health Organization (WHO), two billion people across the globe lack safe drinking water, 600 million ... Developing countries, which have contributed the least to climate change, are not only the most vulnerable to ... health adaptation funding is growing: 95% of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement ...
Article > Insights 
About GCF
... global warming to 1.5°C is still narrowly possible and will be determined by the investment decisions we make over the next decade. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) – a critical element of the historic Paris Agreement - is the world’s ...
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How to apply
How to apply Important We are pleased to announce the launch of the GCF’s new recruitment platform with Oracle, designed to enhance the candidate experience and ... applications have now been successfully migrated to Oracle, you can now check the status. We invite you to visit our ...
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Green Climate Fund Board meeting sets stage for successful replenishment
... with a raft of decisions to strengthen GCF for its first replenishment. Following the selection of Yannick Glemarec as ... the selection of nine new project partners to become Accredited Entities to GCF. Co-Chair Nagmeldin Goutbi Elhassan ... USD 100 million for Nigeria Solar IPP Support Program with AFC FP105 – USD 69.6 million for BOAD Climate Finance ...
Article > Press release 
GCF launches global network of climate change expertise
... of globally renowned organisations to deliver climate knowledge in support of GCF’s activities. The CoP will play a crucial role in driving transformative actions in support of GCF’s mandate. In creating this network, GCF is leveraging cutting edge climate knowledge to ...
Article > Press release 
Green Climate Fund and World Bank partnership unlocks USD 2.7 billion for climate action, Marshall Islands first to benefit with USD 44M project
... and Laura Tuck, World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development, met on Friday in Washington D.C. to strengthen the climate ... countries. The framework agreement, known as an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA), sets the conditions for ...
Article > Press release 
GCF helps XacBank become first Mongolian bank to finance large-scale solar
... has become Mongolia’s first private bank to fund the completion of a large-scale, solar plant in a financing ... by Mongolian company ESB, with Japanese partner firm Sankou Seiki providing most of the technological input in ...
Article > Press release Mongolia 
GCF replenishment wins strong endorsement at COP24
The Green Climate Fund’s current replenishment drive received top-level support from developing ... developed nations during the international climate change meeting in Poland. A number of government ministers ... at EBRD, provided views from the perspective of GCF’s Accredited Entities. They emphasised the added value of ...
Article > Press release 
GCF’s first private sector conference boosts business role in climate finance
... focusing on the private sector to capitalise on business networks to unleash the trillions of dollars needed for climate finance. ... actors who manage more than USD 210 trillion but invest less than 5 percent in climate finance. He singled out the ...
Article > Press release 
"GCF has a huge role to play"
... very honored to attend this Pacific Structured Dialogue meeting here in Pohnpei, and very happy that we have such a ... climate fund helping developing countries respond to challenge of climate change. Our role is to support countries to ... or applications from organisations seeking to become Accredited Entities, or to move ahead with new policies. Then ...
Article > Press release Micronesia (Federated States of) 
Energy transition accelerates with GCF support
GCF releases USD 86.7 million for Kazakhstan project with EBRD, ... in Egypt. The transition to low-emission, renewable energy is crucial if we are to meet the Paris Agreement’s stated goal of pursuing efforts ...
Article > Press release Egypt Kazakhstan 
GCF Structured Dialogue shows strength and weakness of Asian climate approach
... with climate change. In November last year, this Vietnamese coastal city was preparing to host the region's premier economic gathering of regional leaders in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ... forum when it was hit by deadly Typhoon Damrey , which killed 106. Despite extensive flooding, the APEC summit went ...
Article > Press release Viet Nam 
Climate change hurting the poor, Mali President says in call for action
Republic of Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta called for a united approach to tackle the inequalities of ... Dialogue with Africa, which concludes today. "We are all determined together to overcome climate change, which is not ... Investment Fund (EIF). This GCF Direct Access Accredited Entity - which participated in the Dialogue - won ...
Article > Press release Mali 
Unlocking the Green Climate Fund: Learning from the Readiness Programme
... 2014, when it rapidly raised more than USD 10 billion in pledges, it has allocated USD 2.7 billion into projects and ... Programmes, designed to assist entities in applying for accreditation to GCF. As Ms Kerricia Hobson, representing the ... The thoroughness of the GCF accreditation process is no secret, but that is the exact reason the GCF Readiness ...
Article > Press release 
Shoring up early warning systems for Asia-Pacific SIDS
... in the Asia-Pacific region are teaming up with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to boost their resilience ... partners in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste and Vanuatu to develop a potential Green Climate Fund ... Facility (PPF), an instrument that assists GCF Accredited Entities conduct feasibility studies, stakeholder ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries 
GCF and CTCN: Expanding green technology assistance in developing countries
... Green Climate Fund and the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) are stepping up collaboration to accelerate the development and transfer of technologies for ... of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),” said GCF Executive Director Howard Bamsey. ...
Article > Press release 
GCF funds transfer will help Namibia’s rural poor weather change
... to extreme weather in the latest sign of the Fund’s implementation of climate finance. The funds transfer comes as ... by the Environmental Investment Fund, a GCF direct access Accredited Entity based in Namibia. The Enhanced Direct Access ... Minister of Environment and Tourism, Pohamba Shifeta, hailed the Enhanced Direct Access project as a ...
Article > Press release Namibia 
GCF discusses progress at Marrakech climate talks
... support programme is central to these efforts. It enables developing countries to receive support to assist them ... Under GCF’s Project Preparation Facility (PPF), Accredited Entities (AEs) can receive support for the ... “At B.11, the Board approved USD 168m; at B.13 – USD 265m; and at B.14 – USD 745m.” The GCF Board will ...
Article > Press release 
GCF side event asks ‘what makes a good project?’
... hosted by the Green Climate Fund on 2 December brought together over 500 participants for a discussion on how to ... at assisting National Designated Authorities (NDAs) and Accredited Entities (AEs) to put together ambitious projects ... so that the Fund can match its “paradigm-shifting” level of ambition. Mr. Harboe welcomed the event as an ...
Article > Press release 
Structured Dialogue with the Pacific 2018
... and supported by the Government of Australia, brought together key stakeholders to strengthen the engagement of ... island countries and their partners with GCF and accelerate the implementation of GCF projects and programmes in ... and representatives of National Designated Authorities, Accredited Entities, Delivery Partners, civil society ...
Event > Structured dialogue Micronesia (Federated States of) 
Structured Dialogue with Africa
... the Government of Mali from 3 to 6 April 2018, brought together almost 250 key stakeholders from 49 countries to ... of African countries with GCF. It also helped to accelerate the design and implementation of ambitious projects ... meetings of Secretariat staff with NDAs/focal points and Accredited Entities. These led to concrete progress in the ...
Event > Structured dialogue Mali 
Structured Dialogue with Latin America
... the Government of Colombia from 5-8 March 2018, brought together key stakeholders to increase the involvement of Latin American countries with the GCF and to accelerate the implementation of GCF projects and programmes ... progress was made to expand the number of country-level Accredited Entity partners in the region - the so-called ...
Event > Structured dialogue Colombia 