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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) emphasised its support for mainstreaming climate action throughout the financial system during a side-event held in Paris ahead of the One Planet Summit. GCF Executive Director Howard...

The Green Climate Fund attends President Macron's One Planet Summit on climate finance this week, ready to share its experiences of investing climate finance to support low-emission and climate-resilient development,...

The Green Climate Fund has signed an agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) that will enable IFC to pool its resources with those of more than 40 governments that have contributed about USD 10...

The ninth of December every year is designated by the United Nations General Assembly as International Anti-Corruption Day in commemoration of the adoption of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC)....

The President of Nauru H.E. Baron Divavesi Waqa said on Wednesday the Green Climate Fund’s recent introduction of a simplified approval process should expedite the flow of climate finance to Pacific Island states. “...

The Green Climate Fund and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) formalised an agreement uniting the two organisations in efforts to develop and oversee large-scale climate adaptation and mitigation projects across the globe. “As...

An insight into the discussion that emerged at a COP 23 side event in Bonn; jointly published with UNDP. Since the Green Climate Fund (GCF) first began its resource mobilisation in 2014, when it rapidly raised more...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is beginning its first readiness funding to Malaysia in partnership with the Carbon Trust. The project, which was announced at the UN climate change conference in Bonn, will see the Carbon...

From today, developing countries will have stronger technology and financial backing to help meet their commitments to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. This is thanks to an exchange of letters signed between the...

The Green Climate Fund has transferred the first tranche of climate funds to improve ecosystems-based adaptation in the Gambia. The first tranche of USD 6 million marks the start of GCF’s disbursements in a joint...

The Green Climate Fund has signed a funding agreement with Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) to help mainstream climate-resilient infrastructure in Bangladesh. The signing of the Funded Activity Agreement (FAA)...

The Green Climate Fund signed an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) today with German development agency GIZ. This agreement will allow Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH to carry out...

Uncertainty should not be a pretext for putting off preventative action, a leading UN figure in adaptation said during a seminar supported by GCF at the global climate change conference in Bonn. “Rather, the...

A new Green Climate Fund pilot for REDD+ results-based payments is helping put the Paris Agreement into action, participants at an event during the global Climate Change Conference heard. “I believe it is a symbolic...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) will start funding its largest climate finance investment to date following an agreement signed with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The GCF-EBRD Sustainable...

The Green Climate Fund and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have deepened their cooperation on climate change by making Moroccan agriculture more resilient. The two organisations have signed...

The Green Climate Fund and the World Bank today signed a key agreement to support climate action in developing countries. The signing of an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) will allow the two organisations to work...

The Green Climate Fund will focus on pursuing high-quality climate projects and improving its approval processes, Executive Director Howard Bamsey told participants at the global climate change conference currently...

The strengthening of a partnership with the Green Climate Fund will help the residents of low lying islands take greater control of their destinies, the Executive Director of the Micronesia Conservation Trust (MCT),...

A key agreement signed today between the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Green Climate Fund will help AFD achieve its goal of making 100 percent of its financing compatible with the Paris Agreement. “...

The Green Climate Fund has signed a funding agreement with Mongolian-based Direct Access Accredited Entity XacBank in the country’s first renewable energy project financed by a local bank. GCF can now provide USD 8.7...

The Green Climate Fund today announced the launch of its Simplified Approvals Process (SAP) to unlock the power of local climate action, enacting a decision made by the GCF Board last month. The new process streamlines...

The Green Climate Fund announced a USD 43 million partnership to permanently preserve Bhutan’s protected areas, which comprise 51 percent of the country’s territory. Bhutan for Life is the Green Climate Fund’s first...

The Green Climate Fund introduces an online volunteering platform that connects interested individuals with the Fund’s National Designated Authorities (NDAs) and Direct Access Entities through a matchmaking online...

"If the fight against climate change is not won in Africa, it cannot be won anywhere else," said Mr Akinwumi Adesina, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) while signing a partnership agreement with the...

The Green Climate Fund and Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, alongside the city government of Incheon formally opened an exhibition on "Environment, Conflict and Cooperation" at the Fund’s headquarters in Songdo,...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has doubled the amount of approved climate finance during the past year, the Co-Chairs to the GCF Board reported today to the 23rd Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework...

GCF has published a series of ‘In Brief’ factsheets, as the Fiji-chaired 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change gets underway in Bonn, Germany. The factsheets...

The role of GCF continues to grow as the largest international climate fund helping developing counties respond to climate change. GCF in Numbers is a snapshot of key figures, facts and results of the Fund to date....

Innovation in developing countries highlighted by moves to renewable energy in China and India raises hopes for a low-emissions future, according to Javier Manzanares, Green Climate Fund Deputy Executive Director a.i....