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Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP134: Colombia REDD+ Results-based Payments for results period 2015-2016
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP134: Colombia REDD+ Results-based Payments for results period 2015-2016. Project and programme funding proposals that have...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Colombia FAO
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP136: Resilient Landscapes and Livelihoods Project
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP136: Resilient Landscapes and Livelihoods Project. Project and programme funding proposals that have environmental or social...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Ethiopia WorldBank
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP137: Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP137: Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project. Project and programme funding proposals that have environmental or...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Ghana UNDP
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP138: ASER Solar Rural Electrification Project
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP138: ASER Solar Rural Electrification Project. Project and programme funding proposals that have environmental or social...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Senegal BOAD
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP139: Building resilience in the face of climate change within traditional rain fed agricultural and pastoral systems in Sudan
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP139: Building resilience in the face of climate change within traditional rain fed agricultural and pastoral systems in Sudan...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Sudan UNDP
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP140: High Impact Programme for the Corporate Sector
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP140: High Impact Programme for the Corporate Sector. Project and programme funding proposals that have environmental or...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Multiple countries EBRD
Making the Green Climate Fund greener
GCF has joined the UN’s “Greening the Blue” as this initiative’s first non-UN agency. This means GCF will adopt rigorous measures taken by UN bodies to reduce their carbon footprints and other strains on the environment...
Article > News update 
Funding proposal pipeline update as of July 2020
As part of its transparency efforts, GCF regularly provides a summary of the status of its funding proposal pipeline. This document summarises the status of GCF's pipeline as of July 2020.
Document > Funding proposal pipeline update
Leonardo Paat Jr.
It is with deep sadness that GCF announces the death of our colleague and friend Leonardo Paat Jr.
Leo had been with GCF since 2016, serving first as Environment Specialist, then as Senior Environment and Social...
Document > Notification
Mainstreaming Climate Smart Planning and Implementation into Agricultural Development
Agriculture is a highly climate sensitive sector, and future climate change poses key risks that will affect national economic growth and millions of livelihoods in Rwanda. The sector is also the largest source of...
Document > Concept note Rwanda MOE_Rwanda
Strengthening the resilience of small and medium-sized fruit and vegetable producers to climate change induced water insecurity in Central Serbia
Climate change is causing an increase in the frequency and intensity of droughts in Central Serbia, which is leading to significant losses in fruit and vegetable production for small farms relying on rainfed agriculture...
Document > Concept note Serbia UNDP
Strengthening the resilience of ecosystems and populations in four regional hubs in northern Mauritania
Observed climate changes are resulting in an intense process of desertification in Mauritania, putting additional pressure in the extremely fragile oases of the Sahara and moving the desert conditions further south,...
Document > Concept note Mauritania UNEP
Increasing community resilience through enhancement of equitable access to green agriculture
The specific objective of the project is to ensure food security and reduce poverty for climate vulnerable households and communities by improving resilience of agricultural production through stimulating investments in...
Document > Concept note Nepal AEPC
Recharge Pakistan: Building Pakistan’s Resilience to Climate Change through Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Integrated Flood Risk Management
The Indus River is Pakistan’s lifeline, and is now experiencing catastrophic floods and droughts exacerbated by climate change. Pakistan relies on costly hard-infrastructure flood and water management measures with...
Document > Concept note Pakistan WWF
Towards a Climate Resilient Agriculture and livelihoods in Southern Tunisia
Southern Tunisia is highly vulnerable to climate changes (CC) whose impacts are exacerbated by socio-economic difficulties and overexploitation of natural resources. Local Agriculture, based on oasis, olive production...
Document > Concept note Tunisia
Water, Food and Energy Nexus to address Climate Change impacts in Central Tunisia (NEXUS-CT)
Climate change is a complex and cross-cutting problem affecting significantly central Tunisia. A projected reduction of annual precipitations by 20 to 30% by 2100 and the increase of occurrence of dry years by 25-30%...
Document > Concept note Tunisia
Leveraging the National Green Energy Fund (NGEF) to Achieve Rural Electrification in Vanuatu
The proposed project will provide solar PV based electricity to around 16,000 rural households (28% of total households) in Vanuatu, leveraging from the Vanuatu Rural Electrification Project (VREP), National Green...
Document > Concept note Vanuatu
GCF/B.25/16 - Report of the twenty-fifth meeting of the Board, 10 – 12 March 2020
This document contains the report of the twenty-fifth meeting of the Board, which from 10 - 12 March 2020 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Board document > Meeting report
Saving the Ili Delta: Climate Adaptation through Ecosystem Services
With the near loss of the Aral Sea, Lake Balkhash is now the country’s largest inland water body now critically threatened by climate change causing variability of river flow, increased evapotranspiration, and fire risk...
Document > Concept note Kazakhstan WWF
Strengthening Pakistan's Capacities for DemoNstrating REDD+ Systems and Accessing Result-based Payments
The project qualifies under category ‘C', as the project interventions do not entail any social, environmental, economic or cultural risks. The project interventions under demonstration component mainly focus on...
Document > Concept note Pakistan NRSP
Enhancing Early Warning Systems to build greater resilience to hydro and meteorological hazards in Timor-Leste
As a Least Developed Country (LDC) and Small Islands Developing State (SIDS) Timor-Leste is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and considered to be one of the top 10 countries in the world most at risk...
Document > Concept note Timor-Leste UNEP
Malekula Water Supply Project: Increase Resilience of Vulnerable and Marginalized Communities of Malekula Island through Integrated Water Resource Management and Ecosystem-based Interventions
Climate change is reducing the availability of freshwater in Malekula, with groundwater becoming increasingly saline because of sea level rise and more frequent droughts. This is having a significant impact on the lives...
Document > Concept note Vanuatu UNEP
Enhancing Adaptive Capacity and Resilience of Vulnerable Communities and Ecosystems to Climate Change Impacts in the Cattle Corridor of Uganda
Uganda's Cattle Corridor is most affected by climate change. The corridor stretches from south-western to north-eastern Uganda. It is characterised by livestock production, scarce water and pastures. Although it is...
Document > Concept note Uganda OSS
Scaling up ecosystem-based approaches to managing climate-intensified disaster risks in vulnerable regions of South Africa
Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of droughts, floods and wildfires in South Africa, threatening the ecosystems that underpin rural livelihoods and the South African economy. Well managed...
Document > Concept note South Africa SANBI
GCF/B.26/06 - Dates and venues of upcoming meetings of the Board
In accordance with paragraph 17 of the Rules of Procedure, at each meeting the Board will confirm the date and duration of the following meeting. By decision B.BM-2020/07, the Board confirmed that the twenty-seventh...
Board document > Action item
Melanesia - Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Resilience Programme (M-CMERP)
Coastal and marine ecosystems and the services they provide are the basis for Pacific Island countries’ (PICs) climate resilience, livelihoods, economic growth and cultural identity. They are currently under threat from...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries IUCN
An integrated response for climate change mitigation and adaptation for agriculture in Samoa, Vanuatu and Tonga
Climate Change is the most important issue facing the 3 countries this project will operate in - Tonga, Vanuatu and Samoa. This project has been designed to support farmers to adapt to the its impacts as well as to...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries SPC
Scaling the Communal Reserve Co-management Model to Reduce Emissions and Build Resilience of Indigenous People in the Peruvian Amazon
Amazonian indigenous peoples are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, particularly indigenous women. The proposed project aims to empower indigenous people to adapt to increased temperatures,...
Document > Concept note Peru CI
Low carbon buses for the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in Vientiane Capital
The project will contribute to reduce carbon emissions and improve air quality under a new sustainable transportation system being implemented in Vientiane Capital. The project involves introducing electric vehicles in...
Document > Concept note Lao People's Democratic Republic (the)
River Restoration for Climate Change Adaptation (RIOS)
Mexico is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, such as the increase in extreme events, which are affecting watersheds (droughts, floods, landslides), and the negative ecological, economic, and social...
Document > Concept note Mexico FMCN