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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....

The Green Climate Fund will help African countries ramp up their economic growth in ways that do not exacerbate climate change with the signing today of an agreement with the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC). The two...

The Green Climate Fund has signed a funding agreement with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) improving Pacific islands’ ability to deal with climate-induced disasters. The signing of...

The Green Climate Fund participated in the recent high-level meeting of 17 ministers of Energy and Environment that the Government of the Maldives convened in its capacity as Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States...

The Green Climate Fund has transferred the first tranche of climate finance under the Egypt Renewable Energy Financing Framework. The project, undertaken with GCF partner EBRD, the European Bank for Reconstruction and...

The Green Climate Fund and the Asian Development Bank have deepened their support bolstering Pacific island countries’ climate responses with the signing of a key funding agreement to improve Fiji’s water management....

Cristiana Paşca Palmer, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), visited the GCF headquarters this week to hold discussions about cooperation with GCF. Javier Manzanares, GCF Deputy...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) concluded its last Board meeting of 2017 by approving 11 new projects and programmes valued at USD 392.86 million to assist developing countries respond to climate change. The 18th meeting...

The Green Climate Fund Board opens its eighteenth meeting today. This third meeting of the GCF Board this year is being hosted by the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Cairo. The Board will consider a number...

Five island countries in the Asia-Pacific region are teaming up with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to boost their resilience to weather events. WMO is working with the governments and civil society...

The European Investment Bank and the Green Climate Fund have signed an Accreditation Master Agreement, allowing them to work together to finance climate action in developing countries. The agreement was signed at EIB’s...

If you enjoy citrus fruit, you most likely have tasted a clementine from Morocco, and there is a good chance it was grown in the country’s Souss Valley. Located in Morocco’s southwest region, this fertile plain is an...