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Postcard from Katowice: Wednesday, December 12
... official side event of this year’s COP focused on the Fund's achievements to date, and its ambitions for replenishment. GCF Executive Director a.i. Javier Manzanares heralded GCF's record achievement ... of Kiribati said that "GCF is the single most important fund," and that it is "the fund that vulnerable countries ...
Article > Press release 
GCF Board selects Howard Bamsey as Executive Director of the Secretariat
The Board of the Green Climate Fund has selected Mr. Howard Bamsey as the Executive Director of the Fund’s Secretariat. The decision was taken by ... Mr. Bamsey, an Australian national, is the former Director-General of the Global Green Growth Institute and has a ...
Article > Press release 
ED recorded remarks
... to maintain and enhance ocean ecosystems. The Green Climate Fund is making blended finance work for marine ... valued at USD 37 billion contributes to protecting, restoring and sustainably developing the ocean economy. As the ... example, in 2021, we approved our first at-scale private sector programme in the blue economy, the Global Fund for Coral ...
Article > Speech
Agreement clears track for transformative light rail project in Costa Rica
... following the signing of a project agreement (Funded Activity Agreement) between the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Central American Bank for Economic ... for the USD 943.9 million project. GCF Executive Director Mafalda Duarte and CABEI Executive President Gisela ...
Article > News update Costa Rica 
GCF Global NDA Conference 2018
The Green Climate Fund is pleased to host the Global NDA Conference on 8-9 and ... Korea. These events will allow both public and private sector participants to exchange ideas, hear from technology investors, and discuss climate investment opportunities — all ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the) 
International Financial Institutions Knowledge Management Community of Practice annual meeting
The Green Climate Fund (GCF)’s Head of Knowledge and Change Management, ... and Development European Central Bank Green Climate Fund Green Environment Facility Inter-American Development ... International Finance Corporation International Monetary Fund Islamic Development Bank World Bank Virtual, 8:00 - ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Publications
Publications The Green Climate Fund issues a range of publications for our direct and ... step-by-step guidance for developing and structuring funding proposals in alignment with the parameters. A set of annexes ...
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Malaysia partners with Carbon Trust to utilize GCF readiness resources
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is beginning its first readiness funding to ... Designated Authority. GCF’s Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme provides grants and technical ... three distinct areas: prioritization of potential energy sector mitigation programmes, support to a Malaysian ...
Article > Press release Malaysia 
Mongolia’s XacBank signs accreditation agreement as GCF Partner
... Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) with the Green Climate Fund, setting out its partnership with GCF to forge ... profits and low-carbon development.” GCF Executive Director ad interim Javier Manzanares, signing the agreement on behalf of the Fund, said: “Encouraging private sector investment is a key way in which GCF is leveraging its ...
Article > Press release Mongolia 
Bonn: Calling for global climate action
... of its High-level Pledging Conference, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) today calls for countries to demonstrate their ... government ministers and top climate experts to drive the Fund’s second replenishment cycle or GCF-2. The day-long ... Six countries recently announced their contributions to the Fund at the UN Climate Ambition Summit in New York. Pledges ...
Article > News update 
Abt Pty Ltd (Abt Global)
... has significant experience delivering Green Climate Fund (GCF) Project Preparation support, having served as a ... with multilateral banks, bilateral donors, and private investors, the consortium mobilizes and blends funding while ... context-specific support across all GCF regions and sectors, including mitigation, adaptation, forests, ecosystems, ...
Organisation > PPF service firm
SAP064 - Building Eco-system for Accelerating Contribution to NDC through Climate Innovation Incubation for India ("BEACON INDIA”)
... to the growth phase, limited access to climate-focused funding, and the high perceived risks associated with ... Around 50 innovation ventures will be selected for full-scale innovation development, and about 10-15 among them will receive seed funding for prototypes, market promotion, and venture ...
Project > Private sector India 
SAP047 - Climaventures: Harnessing the Domestic Private Sector Ecosystem for Climate Action in Pakistan
... health and disaster risk reduction. As the first GCF-funded project from the National Rural Support Programme ... a viable long-term alternative to local public sector funding, which is constrained by high indebtedness. GCF will fund a venture accelerator to offer grants and expert guidance to up to 100 ...
Project > Private sector Pakistan 
FP210 - KawiSafi II
... II project will create a USD 200 million venture equity fund aimed at closing the investment gap in three key areas where sub-Saharan countries struggle to find investors: energy transition, productivity, and mobility & ... on the shoulders of the first KawiSafi project, the fund will invest in local enterprises developing scalable ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries 
SK Securities, Co., Ltd.
SK Securities, Co., Ltd. (SK Securities) is a private sector entity based in the Republic of Korea. It is a financial ... investment bank, principal investment, private equity fund and trading. Climate change is an important part of its ... a private equity fund (Green Bond Fund) to gather investors for green bonds along with providing advisory and ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), International Republic of Korea (the)
Project safeguards
... Indigenous People’s Policy to reflect the importance of fully and effectively engaging with indigenous peoples in ...
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GCF appoints global facilitator for the replenishment process
To support the first GCF formal replenishment, the Fund appointed Johannes F. Linn, a renowned development economist and practitioner, as a global facilitator to help oversee and streamline the replenishment ... at the Brookings Institution and is a former Executive Director of the Wolfensohn Center for Development. In his role as ...
Article > Press release 
GCF direct access week puts countries’ climate actions in the fast lane
The Green Climate Fund concluded its first "Readiness Week" to assist direct ... supply chains. On days four and five, focus shifted to full-day sessions on gender and south-south exchange. In ... at the gender-specific considerations that must be factored in project design and implementation. The south-south ...
Article > Press release 
GCF and Acumen sign agreement to promote resilient agriculture in East and West Africa
The Green Climate Fund and Acumen have signed funding agreements which will ... and incomes for smallholder farmers. GCF Private Sector Facility Deputy Director Tony Clamp said the signing of ... resilient agriculture. GCF and Acumen have been successfully working together to empower private sector investing ...
Article > Press release 
Nauru President praises GCF move to streamlined approval
... Baron Divavesi Waqa said on Wednesday the Green Climate Fund’s recent introduction of a simplified approval ... their regional needs. GCF Deputy Executive Director ad interim Javier Manzanares noted GCF’s close ... in transportation, climate resilience and the private sector illustrated in concept notes Pacific Island countries ...
Article > Press release Nauru 
CAF becomes first multi-lateral development bank to sign agreement with GCF
... Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) with the Green Climate Fund (GCF), giving the go-ahead to partner on low-emissions ... Vice President, and Javier Manzanares, GCF Executive Director ad interim. The Accreditation Master Agreement is the ... is delighted to sign this agreement with the Green Climate Fund”, said Luis Enrique Berrizbeitia, CAF Executive Vice ...
Article > Press release 
GCF Executive Director highlights role in climate adaptation at global dialogue
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) participated in the Global Adaptation Dialogue on ... and His Excellency Majid Al Suwaidi, Director General of CoP28. Mafalda Duarte, GCF Executive Director, participated in the panel discussion: “The New Era ...
Article > News update 
Compilation of submissions: Draft Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Policy
On 27 October 2017, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) published a call for inputs that invited members ... with the civil society organizations accredited with the Fund, and to submit an updated version of both for ...
Document > Call for input
Heritage Colombia (HECO): Maximizing the Contributions of Sustainably Managed Landscapes in Colombia for Achievement of Climate Goals
... areas network. This is based on establishing a sinking fund to be drawn upon for milestone-based payments tied to ... stability provided through the protection and restoration of healthy ecosystems in current or new protected areas and adjacent lands. This approach is fully consistent with national climate and development ...
Document > Concept note Colombia
Annual Performance Report - Financial Information (Section 3)
... Annual Performance Report (APR) is defined in the GCF Monitoring and Accountability Framework and represents the main annual monitoring tool of GCF-Funded Activities to be provided by accredited entities, as ...
Document > Template
Twenty-ninth meeting of the Board
The twenty-ninth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from 12 PM to 4 PM (UTC) each day from ... with the Information Disclosure Policy of the Green Climate Fund, the Board meeting will be webcast live. All other ...
Document > Notification
Thirtieth meeting of the Board
The thirtieth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund (B.30) will be held from 12 PM to 4 PM (UTC) each day ... with the Information Disclosure Policy of the Green Climate Fund, the Board meeting will be webcast live. All other ...
Document > Notification
Thematic brief: Leveraging equity finance to scale up climate innovation & investment
Over the past decade, blended finance – which uses public funds to share risk and crowd-in private investment through ... leveraging ratios and better meet the needs of private investors to finance the emergence, deployment and widespread ... debt financing. While in mature economies, innovators can turn to accelerator and growth funds to finance the ...
Document > Thematic brief
Thirty-first meeting of the Board
The thirty-first meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from 12 PM to 4 PM (UTC) each day from ... with the Information Disclosure Policy of the Green Climate Fund, the Board meeting will be webcast live. All other ...
Document > Notification
Thirty-second meeting of the Board
The thirty-second meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund (B.32) will be held from Monday, 16 May to Thursday, 19 ... with the Information Disclosure Policy of the Green Climate Fund, the Board meeting will be webcast live. All other ...
Document > Notification