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It’s all about the finance! That was the plea from NGOs this morning at COP24, ahead of the high level Ministerial dialogue on climate finance. Many delegates here are focusing on this issue, and GCF offered its ...

GCF has a strong focus on the role of the private sector today in Katowice. Colleagues from GCF's Private Sector Facility led an event on ... private funding - and today provided some great examples as to how that can be achieved, from green banking to ...

... text on future climate finance flows being particularly relevant to GCF in light of its current replenishment process. Article 9 of the Paris Agreement states ... an operating entity of the financial mechanism to the UNFCCC, GCF will certainly play a key role - whichever way the ...

... Board members and alternate Board members are now being selected within constituencies and regional groups before the ... start on 1 January 2019 and end on 31 December 2021. The selection process takes place in the frame of the ... invited to notify the GCF Secretariat the names of the selected Board members and alternate Board members by 30 ...

... activities in relation to prohibited practices. The MoU complements the Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) with SANBI, which contains a clause requiring the Accredited Entity to provide IIU with reasonable assistance in ...

Prominent Jamaican legal practitioner Douglas Leys is the Green Climate Fund's new General Counsel. Mr Leys has taken up this post after moving from his previous ...

... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The five-year pilot marks a major milestone for the Fund’s support of REDD+. This is a UNFCCC ... of forest carbon stocks (known in shorthand as REDD+). Accredited Entities are invited to submit concept notes and ...

... to Prohibited Practices . The recently signed MoU complements the Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) with CABEI, which contains a clause requiring the Accredited Entity to provide the IIU with reasonable ...

... the gender dimension to climate finance, examining challenges of financing women-centred climate actions, as well ... with UN Women. Executive Director Bamsey also shared examples from GCF's project portfolio with particular gender ...

... planet,” said Mr Kostka during the signing of an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA). MCT is one of GCF’s direct access Accredited Entities forging low-emission and climate resilient ... keen to support societies that are highly vulnerable, such as the Pacific islands where MCT is focusing its ...

... will consider a number of funding proposals from its Accredited Entities. GCF currently has a project portfolio of ... Fund's operations as well as reviewing applications for accreditation from five new organisations, all of which are ... of Board meetings are live-streamed on the GCF website . Egypt Cairo GCF Board meets in Egypt to develop ...

... disbursed USD 296,000 to Vanuatu to increase this vulnerable island country’s capacity to access climate finance. ... Small Island Developing State is one of the most vulnerable countries to disasters which can be exacerbated by ...

... meeting to advance collaboration with the Fund and accelerate access to its resources. Organized in partnership ... She encouraged developing countries and GCF Accredited Entities to bring projects and programmes to the ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Welcoming participants on behalf of the Government of ...

... GCF’s proposal approval process; the process for the selection of the Permanent Trustee; GCF’s accreditation framework and policy; and updates on Readiness ... organizations, National Designated Authorities (NDAs), Accredited Entities, and GCF Delivery Partners. The Board ...

... Green Climate Fund to provide the organisation with Privileges and Immunities. The agreement was signed on the ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), governments recommended that Parties to the UNFCCC enter bilateral agreements with the Green Climate Fund ...

... 2.2 million with UNDP acting as its delivery partner to implement its NAPs activities, whilst Nepal will receive a ... and Javier Manzanares, Executive Director a.i., at a high-level event convened by the President of COP22, H.E. ... the decision to expedite support for the formulation and implementation of National Adaptation Plans in June this year, ...

... Partners and Friends, If you are at COP 22 in Marrakech, please come and visit the ‘GCF Dome’ at the conference ... Green Climate Fund is at the twenty-second session of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties in Morocco, and is ... GCF’s activities at COP 22 are being posted on the GCF website and Twitter (@GCF_News). Come by and see us at the GCF ...

The Board of the Green Climate Fund has selected Mr. Howard Bamsey as the Executive Director of the ... following an extensive global recruitment process to select a new head of the Secretariat. Mr. Bamsey, an ... in international climate change, environment and sustainable development, both in the diplomatic service and academia. ...

... totaling USD 787.8 million. The Board will also work to select a new Executive Director of the GCF Secretariat. The ... to the Acumen Fund, one of the 33 entities that have been accredited to GCF to date. This was a capital contribution to ...

... by the GCF Board at its June meeting and takes up the role following the conclusion of the term of the current ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with the goal of supporting climate resilient and low ... her appointment as Minister for Energy, Mining and Renewables in the new Tunisian Government and, on behalf of the GCF ...

... financial institutions that will undertake the design, implementation and management of strong, high-impact projects ... of USD 200 million for around 10 pilots, including at least four in LDCs, SIDS and African States. Countries are invited to work with both accredited direct access entities and potential entities to ...

The GCF website has received several significant updates to make its ... and project size. A new Project section provides a detailed overview of all projects approved by the GCF Board to ... Looking to the Fund’s partners, a new section for Accredited Entities provides a one-stop overview of the public ...

... Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board will be live web-cast to enable the broader GCF stakeholder community to follow the ... measure by early 2018. The policy is based upon the principles of maximizing access to information, subject only to ... The link to the web-cast will be available on the GCF website ahead of the meeting and communicated through a ...

... process that resulted in more than USD 10 billion equivalent in pledges from 43 countries. Ahead of the adoption of the Paris ... the Fund to developing countries. At the operational level, Ms. Cheikhrouhou oversaw the establishment of GCF’s ...

... are high. The Fund is charged with playing a decisive role in channeling and catalysing climate finance, thereby supporting the achievement of UNFCCC’s climate change objectives. So far, the Fund has mobilized around USD 10 billion equivalent, and approved its first projects last month. But what ...

His Excellency Macky Sall, President of Senegal, today used his address to the plenary of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties to highlight the importance ...

French President Francois Hollande has called for more climate finance from developed countries, ... visit to the Republic of Korea today. Speaking at a roundtable on climate and green growth at Ehwa Women’s University, ... days of climate discussions in China. He noted Korea’s role in hosting the Green Climate Fund, identifying the ...

The eleventh meeting of the Green Climate Fund Board has opened ... Paris COP later this month. "We need to make the Fund a viable Partner to all countries, so that we can support the implementation of their strategic priorities," said Ms. ...

... Green Climate Fund Executive Director addressed the High-Level Climate Finance Ministerial meeting at the 2015 Annual ... On this occasion, Executive Director Héla Cheikhrouhou called for the Paris Agreement to ensure that the Financial ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is scaled up substantially and on an ongoing basis. ...

... Climate Fund will be hosting an event on the Fund’s role in supporting the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the ... together high-level representatives from governments, GCF accredited entities, UN agencies, financial institutions, ...