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Gender assessment for FP245: Green City Kigali: a new model for urban development in Rwanda
This gender assessment for FP245: Green City Kigali: a new model for urban development in Rwanda seeks to present the issues, gaps and problems that should be addressed by gender-responsive project interventions.
Document > Gender assessment Rwanda
Gender assessment for FP244: Climate Resilient Health and Well-Being for Rural Communities in southern Malawi (CHWBRC)
This gender assessment for FP244: Climate Resilient Health and Well-Being for Rural Communities in southern Malawi (CHWBRC) seeks to present the issues, gaps and problems that should be addressed by gender-responsive...
Document > Gender assessment Malawi
Decisions made for information disclosure request IDP672
This document lists the decision made with regard to IDP672, received by the GCF Secretariat on 28 January 2025. The request contains multiples inquiries, with some items being granted and some items being denied on 25...
Document > Information disclosure decision
Gender assessment for FP257: RE-GAIN: Scaling solutions for food loss in Africa
This gender assessment for FP257: RE-GAIN: Scaling solutions for food loss in Africa seeks to present the issues, gaps and problems that should be addressed by gender-responsive project interventions.
Document > Gender assessment Multiple countries
Gender assessment for SAP049: Sustainable Communities for Climate Action in the Yucatán Peninsula (ACCIÓN)
This gender assessment for SAP049: Sustainable Communities for Climate Action in the Yucatán Peninsula (ACCIÓN) seeks to present the issues, gaps and problems that should be addressed by gender-responsive project...
Document > Gender assessment Mexico
Farmerline: Empowering smallholder farmers and governments to create climate-resilient agribusinesses
The impact of climate change is impacting all sectors, with agriculture being particularly vulnerable, and a significant contributor to its exacerbation at the same time. The agricultural ... supply chain impacts. The Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF) — funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and ...
Article > Story Multiple countries 
GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference 2021
... and technology companies to accelerate private sector-driven climate action in developing countries. As the ... greater. The world’s largest dedicated climate finance fund, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), is ideally placed to ... Specialist, GCF Day 1, Session 4: Partnering successfully with GCF: an interview with Jacqueline Novogratz, ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
GCF launches global network of climate change expertise
The Green Climate Fund has today announced the launch of a new partnership of ... provide GCF with technical advisory services in core sectoral and key thematic areas, such as forestry, energy ... others. To this date, 28 organisations covering 14 core sectoral and key thematic areas have been selected to be ...
Article > Press release 
GCF and Korean Government join forces to promote global Green New Deal
The head of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) on Thursday called for a global Green New Deal ... supportive to be effective,” said GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec during an international conference in ... the need for increased public and private sector finance flows to fill the funding gaps developing ...
Article > Press release 
Keynote speech by ED a.i.
... resilience. In this sense, education is very much cross-sectoral, tackling both mitigation and adaptation. Education presents great opportunities for cross-sectoral climate projects. These opportunities can be ... management, GCF is the world’s largest dedicated climate fund. Compared with other funds, GCF is unique. We can ...
Article > Speech
Ambition and coordination key to climate finance reform
... the frontlines of the climate crisis. At the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) COP29 official side event, “Reform of the ... climate leaders from government, public and private sectors who shared their thoughts on the type of climate ... needed to tackle today’s challenges. GCF Executive Director Mafalda Duarte said ‘ambitious, coordinated action ...
Article > News update 
GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference 2022
... that gathers global leaders from the private and public sectors to accelerate private finance for climate action in ... and technology companies to accelerate private sector-driven climate action for developing countries. Key ... Renée González Montagut, Director General, Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature Anton Willems, Executive ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
From seed to shelf
... The CRAVE Project is financed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and implemented by the Environmental Investment ... Traditional Authority “Agriculture is an important sector, it is positively changing people’s lives, and we are ... agriculture. Hundreds of farmers have received mentoring, leading to enhanced horticulture and dryland ...
Article > Story Namibia 
The voices of Datem del Marañón: Protecting one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world
... being implemented by Profonanpe, the Environmental Fund of Peru, a GCF direct access entity, and the first ... and the large-scale release of greenhouse gases stored in local peatlands. While peatlands cover only three ... Guillermo Yumbato, VP of the Kandozi Autonomous Territorial Government, and member of the Association of ...
Article > Story Peru 
Re-connecting with Mother Earth
... and Life’ programme, efforts are now being made to restore and adapt traditional water management techniques, ... the entire rural population of La Mojana, and to restore around 40,000 hectares of wetlands in Bolivar, Sucre, ... implemented by Colombia’s Fondo Adaptación (Adaptation Fund), Ministry of the Environment and UNDP , with funding ...
Article > Story Colombia 
Forests: A cause of climate concern, and hope
... levels. This is because forests can act as both sinks storing carbon dioxide, thereby reducing greenhouse gas ... more than that emitted by the world’s entire transport sector. The degradation of forests then acts as a net source of ... regions. With the launch of the pilot, GCF is the only funding mechanism that supports all three phases of REDD+. ...
Article > Story Multiple countries 
GCF disburses finance to support Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon
The Green Climate Fund has begun disbursing resources to the first project it ... and the large-scale release of greenhouse gases stored in local peatlands. GCF has transferred the first USD ... their traditions and ancestral rights in their territory. This includes their harvesting of palm trees that ...
Article > Press release Peru 
Grenada PM calls for decisive climate action at GCF Structured Dialogue with the Caribbean
... he added. Javier Manzanares, GCF Executive Director a.i., echoed the sentiment in the room and reaffirmed ... demonstrated its resilience. As the largest global climate fund, GCF is poised to provide further support to the ... on a low-carbon and sustainable pathway is required. GCF is fully committed to assisting the region with transformative ...
Article > Press release 
Colombian President calls for enhanced public-private climate action
... Manuel Santos Calderón called for urgent public-private sector cooperation in tackling climate change at the Green Climate Fund's first Structured Dialogue in Latin America. "Both the public and private sectors should work together towards developing sustainable ...
Article > Press release Colombia 
GCF ensures Indigenous Peoples play a key role in climate action
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) celebrates the International Day of the World’s ... Peoples act as key stakeholders in many of the GCF-funded climate projects covering over 100 developing ... no harm is done, there are plenty of examples where GCF funding is actively enhancing the livelihoods of Indigenous ...
Article > Press release 
Partner agreements after Board meeting sign of faster GCF financing
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has signed agreements with is partners to ... after our projects’ approval,” noted GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec during a recent online ceremony marking the four FAA signings. The Executive Director added that the recent GCF Board meeting , its 28th, had ...
Article > Press release 
Address at Global Korea Convention 2020
... 12 meters above today and the world was devastated by superstorms. As stated by President Moon, climate change has ... are also allocating 50% more of their coronavirus recovery funding to fossil fuels than to clean energy. To reverse ... next year’s pivotal COP26 in the UK. The private sector must play a key role in this transition, both in Korea ...
Article > Speech
Achieving water security through climate-resilient infrastructure
... on the Plain. With support from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and ... per cent of the total project cost, mobilised the scale of funding required to turn this type of climate investment ... makes living here possible.” Nabil Aloussi, Project Director of the Saïss Water Conservation Project, Ministry of ...
Article > Story Morocco 
GCF and CRDB Bank Plc. sign agreement to boost access to climate adaptation technologies for agribusinesses in Tanzania
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and CRDB Bank Plc. have signed an agreement for a ... of these groups and the country’s agriculture sector by removing the major financial, regulatory, and technical barriers related to accessing climate ...
Article > News update 
GCF hosts first Indigenous Peoples Advisory Group meeting
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) takes mainstreaming the voices of indigenous ... the GCF Secretariat and chaired by Tunga Bhadra Rai, Director of Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN), ... policy,” said Kimaren Ole Riamit, Maasai leader and Director of the Indigenous Livelihoods Enhancement Partners ...
Article > News update 
ED remarks for International Women’s Day 2023
... true gender equality - is at the heart of the Green Climate Fund’s work, and I would like to highlight a few of our initiatives to empower female innovators and entrepreneurs. A first example is the Catalyst initiative , a climate incubator fund set up with GIZ, which will support the ...
Article > Speech
How grass seeds are changing lives in Kenya
... I went to Tharaka Nithi county to see the Green Climate Fund-financed Towards Ending Drought Emergencies (TWENDE) ... the resilience of livestock and other land-use sectors by restoring and improving the governance of rangeland ecosystems ...
Article > Insights Kenya 
Debt for climate swaps: exploring avenues and opportunities
... (DFCS) are an agreement between a sovereign and its creditors that reallocates a portion of ongoing debt obligations ... agriculture and water security, forest conservation and restoration. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is uniquely positioned to enable and facilitate ...
Document > Working paper
GCF/B.01-13/02/Rev.01 - Revised Additional Rules of Procedure of the Board
... III); (b) Board meetings (Annex IV) including the need to fund the participation of advisers from eligible developing ...
Board document > Action item
Sustainability guidance note: Designing and ensuring meaningful stakeholder engagement on GCF-financed projects
... financed by the GCF, and to both private and public sector accredited entities. The GCF is committed to enhancing ... outlined in GCF policies. The guidance note is not a Fund policy, nor mandatory and it does not substitute for the need to exercise ...
Document > Guides