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GCF partners with FAO on two major climate-resilience projects in Benin and the Gambia
... These cross-cutting mitigation and adaptation projects were approved at the most recent GCF Board meeting in Incheon, ... Maria Helena Semedo said: “FAO welcomes the approval of these projects to accelerate inclusive climate ... vulnerable rural communities in Benin and the Gambia. The approval of these two projects also highlights the continued ...
Article > News update Benin Gambia FAO 
GCF and World Bank sign renewable energy project agreement
... additional people. The first phase of the facility was approved in March 2021 and is already being implemented. The ... most recent Board meeting where the funding proposal was approved by the Board. With the signing of ... Bank, as the accredited entity, can now rapidly move from approval to implementation, given the scale of needs on the ...
Article > News update WorldBank 
Executive Director’s opening remarks
... Do note as well that in the summer of last year, the Board approved a new strategy. And once again, vulnerability, ... from the public sector and the private sector. So the Board approved this allocation. Each country can benefit from this allocation up to USD7 million. The board also approved a replenishment of the Project Preparation Facility ...
Article > Speech
Executive Director’s remarks
... health priorities into climate investment. To date, GCF has approved investments that capture impacts in the health ... air pollutions from improved cook stoves. To date, GCF has approved investments totaling USD 457 million in 13 projects ... USD 5.8 million being worked on. In October, our Board approved GCF’s first purely health sector project where ...
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EBRD and Green Climate Fund join forces to support major renewable energy project in Egypt
... climate finance projects and implement those that are approved by the GCF Board. The EBRD is providing USD 352.3 ... The GCF Executive Director added the GCF Board has already approved three diverse projects proposed by EBRD in addition ... this initiative, the nearest to implementation of the GCF-approved EBRD projects, underscores the very productive ...
Article > Press release Egypt EBRD 
Private sector key, say GCF Latin America Dialogue partners
... Bank (IDB) , a GCF Accredited Entity with seven projects approved by the GCF Board. "Such perceptions of risk, in ... of Latin America (CAF) , a GCF Accredited Entity with two approved projects, highlighted the need to attract the ...
Article > Press release Colombia CAF 
Making blended finance work for adaptation
... proven new climate solutions. Since our first project was approved in 2015, our portfolio has grown to USD 10.2 ... management with co-financing. We now have 192 projects approved in 127 developing countries. Many of our projects ...
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GCF explores how to strengthen private sector finance at World Forestry Congress
... efforts needed to achieve the Paris Agreement. GCF has approved close to USD 1.4 billion worth of climate finance ... are home to the world’s largest rainforest. GCF has also approved USD 145 million for projects contributing to ...
Article > News update 
GCF partners with Save the Children on major Vanuatu climate resilience project
... The signing follows swiftly after the project’s approval at the most recent GCF Board meeting in Antigua and ... Climate Resilience Project is the second GCF project approved in Vanuatu. The project, worth nearly USD 37 ...
Article > News update Vanuatu SCA 
PSAA questionnaire
... (PSAA) Pilot is one of two approaches to GCF accreditation, approved through Board decision B.31/06 . The PSAA is a ... those from developing countries that have yet to have an approved GCF-funded activity at the time of the launch of ...
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GCF and CTCN: Expanding green technology assistance in developing countries
... illustrated through the GCF Readiness Programme that has approved funding to support the governments of Ghana, ... among others. USD 890,000 in Readiness resources have been approved for the three countries’ technical assistance ...
Article > Press release 
GCF funds transfer will help Namibia’s rural poor weather change
... The funds transfer comes as GCF scales up disbursements to approved projects. Recent financial transfers include a ... transferred in May. Both Namibian climate finance projects, approved by the GCF Board at the end of last year, are being ...
Article > Press release Namibia EIF 
Resource Mobilisation
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Responding to the climate challenge requires collective action from all countries, cities, businesses, and private citizens. Among these concerted efforts, advanced economies have formally agreed to jointly...
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Country and entity engagement
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Among others, GCF works with developing countries and Accredited Entities to deliver impactful climate solutions to those that need it most. Apart from funding projects and programmes, we provide a wide...
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Addressing accelerating climate change-induced urban-to-rural migration through Low Emissions Climate Resilient Agro-Spatial Development in Togo [Togo LECR – ASD Programme]
... resilient development, by creating climate-smart agro-processing complexes integrated into climate-smart villages ... and modern farming techniques and value addition in processing of crops are also seen as the bedrock of growth ... or more. Both climate-smart villages and climate-smart agro-processing will enable a wide range of interventions such as ...
Document > Concept note Togo BOAD
COP27 summit host Egypt is first country to adopt Climate Investment Plan in partnership with Green Climate Fund
... and feasibility assessments early in the design process and at a systems level, rather than on a ... move well-designed proposals through the GCF’s investment process more quickly. Building investment collaborations to ...
Article > Press release Egypt 
Moving from planning to action: The NDC partnership and the Green Climate Fund launch the Climate Investment Planning and Mobilization Framework
... that investment planning is a dynamic and iterative process shaped by each country’s unique context, ambition, ... capability. Various countries and financiers may begin this process at different stages; therefore, the Framework ...
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The Green Climate Fund Board selects Yannick Glemarec as new Executive Director
... of Korea, following an extensive global recruitment process. Glemarec will lead the Secretariat of the world’s ...
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GCF, UN Environment launch project to fortify the Gambia against droughts, floods
... them to use their own knowledge and decision-making processes to take climate change action," she said. Gambia ...
Article > Press release Gambia UNEP 
GCF publishes the tentative funding proposal schedule for B.27
... technical review, project appraisal, and endorsement processes by the Secretariat’s Climate Investment ...
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GCF publishes the tentative funding proposal schedule for B.29
... technical review, project appraisal, and endorsement processes by the Secretariat’s Climate Investment ...
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The Green Climate Fund welcomes Austria’s contribution for its second replenishment (GCF-2)
... during the 33rd meeting of the GCF Board in July 2022. The process includes consultation meetings with potential ...
Article > Press release Austria 
GCF first replenishment meeting reinforces the role of the Fund to drive climate action
... the Pledging Conference in October 2019. The replenishment process was launched at the Board meeting in Bahrain in ...
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GCF Regional workshop to help advance climate action in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
... of National Designated Authorities (NDAs), the processes related to accreditation and the submission of ...
Article > Press release Georgia 
GCF Readiness Results - Antigua and Barbuda
... to kick-start needed technical capacity, systems and processes to support the delivery of its climate agenda. ...
Article > Press release Antigua and Barbuda 
GCF joins initiative to help Africa expand its REDD+ roots
... he said. “In addition, the increased desertification process exacerbated by climate change has increased the ...
Article > Press release Côte d'Ivoire 
Reducing GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing rural livelihoods in the Headwaters of the Zambezi river (Zambia’s North-Western province), in support to NDC implementation and RBPs
... This Project seeks to strengthen the REDD+ implementation processes for effective GHG emission reduction from LULUCF ...
Document > Concept note Zambia FAO
GCF at the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings and UN: Climate finance and global financial reforms loom large
... for reforms to international financial institutions and processes and to significantly scale up climate finance. ...
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FP166 - Light Rail Transit for the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM)
Emissions from Costa Rica’s transport sector, contributing to 51 percent of the national total in 2015, is projected to increase by 44 percent by 2050 without mitigation measures. While Costa Ricans’ use of private cars...
Project > Public sector Costa Rica CABEI 
SAP016 - Fiji Agrophotovoltaic Project in Ovalau
Fiji produces over half of its electricity from hydropower. However, the volatility of annual rainfall in recent years, along with an increase in climate variability, has compounded problems caused by the lack of a...
Project > Private sector Fiji FDB 