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GCF's first REDD+ results-based payment boosts financial incentive to protect forests
The Green Climate Fund's recent decision to pay Brazil USD 96.5 million for ... its Nationally Determined Contribution ( NDC ) as a signatory to the Paris Agreement. These activities , planned by ... and traditional communities for conserving and restoring native vegetation. They will also include measures to ...
Article > Press release Brazil 
Climate costs will rise sharply if we miss 1.5 degree target, GCF conference hears
... of the messages shaping discussions at a key Green Climate Fund (GCF) conference which ended today in Incheon, Republic ... and a moral obligation,” she added. “The Green Climate Fund has a central role to play in channelling climate ... to meet developing country needs, Deputy Executive Director Javier Manzanares said the Fund had already “made big ...
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GCF scaling-up clean energy access through solar based mini-grids in Mali
... are getting most of the electricity from diesel generators. The country’s primary electricity grid is dominated ... in February 2019. The project is expected to provide funding to solar-based mini-grids for rural electrification, ... more than EUR 200 million for the promotion of private sector investments in solar energy”, he added. Public-private ...
Article > Story Mali 
Global leaders highlight need to invest for COVID-climate recovery
... leaders during the opening of the three-day Green Climate Fund (GCF) Private Investment for Climate Conference. ... face of COVID and climate challenges, GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec stated, “The Covid-19 pandemic has ... has brought together leaders in the business and public sectors for its third annual private sector-focused conference ...
Article > Press release 
Financing ambition and the future we want
... good afternoon to everyone. On behalf of the Green Climate Fund, I would like to express my sincere appreciation for ... global Covid-19 crisis and the climate crisis. SIDS have historically played a critical role in climate negotiations to ... to preserve livelihoods and foster ecosystems restoration. The GCF will also focus on access to finance for ...
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Implementing the new GCF urban strategy in Africa
... Urban Strategy in Africa. As the world’s largest climate fund, 37% of our portfolio or USD 3.3 billion are invested ... governments face significant barriers in accessing funding for resilient infrastructure – with less than 4% ... urban economies. For example, the Sub-national Climate Fund Global (SnCF Global) managed by Pegasus Capital ...
Article > Speech
GCF launches innovation Working Paper at COP26
... its latest working paper. Authored by GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec, Accelerating and Scaling Up Climate Innovation: How the Green Climate Fund’s approach can deliver new climate solutions for ... the Paris Agreement’s goals,' stated GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec. 'But we need to deploy dramatic ...
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Partnerships strengthened and mobilised for greater climate action
The Green Climate Fund (GCF)’s Global Programming Conference (GPC) wrapped ... investments in adaptation, direct access, and private sector with greater impact, country ownership and alignment ... Board that include a new adaptation approach , private sector strategy , updated Simplified Approval Process and ...
Article > News update 
Saint Kitts and Nevis commits to lead on scaled-up climate action
... undertaking was made at the closing of the Green Climate Fund (GCF)-hosted ‘ Regional Dialogue with the Caribbean ... the region tackle common climate change challenges in sectors that will also create new economic opportunities.” ... movement,” the Prime Minister said. GCF Executive Director, Mafalda Duarte, said: “This Dialogue is about turning ...
Article > News update Saint Kitts and Nevis 
FP019 - Priming Financial and Land Use Planning Instruments to Reduce Emissions from Deforestations
... effective implementation through innovative GCF-GEF fund integration and adaptive management during COVID-19. ... include updating six provincial and twelve territorial cantonal land use and development plans, along with ... climate change and sustainability criteria; restoring 15,023 hectares of forest, conserving 789,099 ...
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Bhutan’s King optimistic about climate solutions
... was echoed in the various meetings that the Green Climate Fund delegation had during the scoping mission to Bhutan ... increasing temperature, flooding, landslides and windstorms have led to seasonal and local water scarcity for ... and technical support and advice. Jerry Velasquez, director of mitigation and adaptation at GCF, said “Bhutan has ...
Article > Press release Bhutan 
Scaling up CoP event outlines COP26 outcomes and ways forward
... up climate innovation and investments, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Brookings Institute hosted the Climate ... adaptation,’ said Yannick Glemarec, GCF Executive Director. ‘The scale up must be enormous and supported by a ... at COP26. It saw massive participation from the private sector and the presence of several prime ministers and heads of ...
Article > News update 
ED’s remarks at Interactive Dialogue - Access to Climate Finance: Building on the Outcomes of UNFCCC COP 28
... just to disclose that I'm a newly appointed Executive Director, so I didn't have anything to do with these numbers that ... the availability of grant resources in the Green Climate Fund is quite significant. And the Green Climate Fund actually works with more than 40 national entities. So ...
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Caribbean countries launch landmark platform to scale up climate investment
... to join in the near future. Mafalda Duarte, Executive Director, Green Climate Fund said: “I congratulate Caribbean countries on the ... action. It aims to mobilise greater public and private sector investment and strengthen coordination in key areas, ...
Article > Press release Barbados 
Environmental and social safeguards
Environmental and social safeguards
In carrying out its mandate of promoting a paradigm shift towards low-emission and climate-resilient development pathways in the context of sustainable development, GCF will...
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GCF/B.20/26 - Report of the twentieth meeting of the Board, 1 – 4 July 2018
Board document > Meeting report
Board document > Meeting report
GCF/B.17/22 - Report of the seventeenth meeting of the Board, 5 – 6 July 2017
Board document > Meeting report
Board document > Meeting report
GCF/B.17/21 - Decisions of the Board – seventeenth meeting of the Board, 5 – 6 July 2017
Board document > Compendium of decisions
Board document > Compendium of decisions
GCF/B.13/33 - Report of the thirteenth meeting of the Board, 28-30 June 2016
Board document > Meeting report
Board document > Meeting report
GCF/B.01-12/10 - Report of the First Meeting of the Board, 23-25 August 2012
Board document > Meeting report
Board document > Meeting report
GCF/B.01-13/04 - Administrative Policies of the Independent Secretariat
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Board document > Action item
GCF/B.01-13/08 - Modalities for Readiness and Preparatory Support
GCF/B.01-13/08 Modalities for Readiness and Preparatory Support ...
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