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Lao PDR connecting climate resilience and green growth
The Lao People’s Democratic Republic is embarking on a green growth strategy to ensure its socio-economic development is sustainable and anchored in protecting the environment and increasing resilience to a changing...
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GCF hails Mongolia partnerships as model for mobilising private capital
Mobilising private sector capital is critical to climate transformation, and GCF’s partnerships in Mongolia demonstrate how the Fund can leverage public funds to engage private investment.
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GCF Readiness funding to advance Viet Nam’s national climate change actions
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam have signed letters of agreement approving nearly USD 300,000 in GCF Readiness funding to support the country’s green growth and climate action...
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CABEI signs Accreditation Master Agreement with Green Climate Fund
The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) today signed an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) with the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The agreement will enable the multiplying of financing sources for...
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GCF strengthens partnership with Inter-American Development Bank
The Green Climate Fund has broadened its inroads of climate finance into the Latin America and Caribbean region after the signing of a key agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
The signing of...
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GCF backs Mongolian forum to open up low-emission, business paths
XacBank, a Green Climate Fund (GCF) Accredited Entity, is helping Mongolia forge a new sustainable phase in its economic growth by holding the bank’s first green finance forum on Wednesday.
The one-day event run by...
Article > Press release Mongolia 
Namibia commences climate projects as GCF brings country ownership to the fore
Namibia has begun work on two Green Climate Fund (GCF)–supported projects bolstering rural people’s resilience.
The start of these adaptation initiatives marks an important phase of GCF’s efforts to ensure recipient...
Article > Press release Namibia 
GCF Readiness Programme marks milestone, hitting USD 10m in funds disbursed to 59 countries
More than USD 10 million to date has been disbursed through the Green Climate Fund’s Readiness Programme, a flagship funding programme that provides resources to enhance country ownership and access to the Fund.
The...
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GCF launches its first climate gender manual
The Green Climate Fund is helping to level the playing field of climate action with the launch today of its first gender guide to climate finance.
GCF Executive Director Howard Bamsey and Swedish Minister for...
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GCF and CTCN: Expanding green technology assistance in developing countries
The Green Climate Fund and the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) are stepping up collaboration to accelerate the development and transfer of technologies for energy-efficient, low-carbon and climate-resilient...
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New GCF manual puts gender at centre of climate response
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) will launch a guide on Tuesday strengthening the central role of gender consideration in its allocation of climate finance.
“Mainstreaming Gender in Green Climate Fund Projects” details how...
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GCF enhances Asian coverage by bolstering ties with ADB
The Green Climate Fund expanded its impact in the Asian region today with an agreement strengthening its shared strategic approach to tackle climate change with the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
The two organizations...
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GCF sets funding proposal schedule
The Green Climate Fund has set the indicative timeline for its consideration of funding proposals for the next two GCF Board meetings. The indicative timeline lists the key dates leading to the Board meetings, where the...
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Signing of legal agreement broadens Indian scope of climate action
The Green Climate Fund has strengthened momentum to tackle climate change in the second most populace nation by signing a key agreement with GCF’s first accredited Indian bank.
The signing by India’s National Bank for...
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GCF lays climate finance groundwork in Africa and the Pacific
The Green Climate Fund’s latest expansion of assistance to countries preparing to implement climate finance is targeting Africa and the Pacific.
GCF has provided USD 700,000 to the Ministry of Natural Resources of...
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Climate finance forum shows Pacific potential
A Green Climate Fund forum which wound up today in Tonga has added another building block to the Pacific region’s efforts to respond to climate change.
The four-day Structured Dialogue with the Pacific, a region...
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GCF Structured Dialogue with the Pacific to further region’s climate roadmap
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Pacific Structured Dialogue will take place in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, from 18 to 21 July. The three-day event will bring together representatives from Pacific Island countries with the GCF’s...
Article > Press release Tonga 
Bilateral agreement solidifies partnership between Tonga and GCF
The Government of the Kingdom of Tonga has signed an agreement with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to grant privileges and immunities to GCF. The agreement was signed in advance of the upcoming GCF Structured Dialogue...
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Green Climate Fund deepens ties with Conservation International
The Green Climate Fund has signed an Accreditation Master Agreement with Conservation International, broadening the Fund’s global reach to support climate action.
Conservation International, an international non-profit...
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Liberia receives first instalment of USD 2.2m GCF grant for climate adaptation
The Government of Liberia has recently received USD 805,000 as part of a USD 2.2 million Green Climate Fund grant to support its national climate adaptation planning process. The release of funds to the West African...
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GCF Board Strengthens Fund’s Operations
The second Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting of 2017 concluded today by adopting a series of decisions that will strengthen the operations of the Fund and help generate high quality funding proposals for climate...
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17th GCF Board meeting to refine climate finance flow
The 17th meeting of the Green Climate Fund Board opens today, with a major goal to strengthen the Fund’s focus on targeting strong climate finance initiatives.
The GCF Board's 24 members will work to strengthen the...
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GCF begins first REDD+ transfer
The Green Climate Fund is transferring its first REDD+ disbursement to help Ecuador reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect its forests.
The current transfer of USD 7.9 million to the United Nations Development...
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GCF finance allocation builds Tuvalu’s resilience
The Green Climate Fund is transferring funds to help strengthen the island nation of Tuvalu against the double climate threats of rising sea levels and destructive cyclones.
GCF is sending the first USD 2 million...
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GCF completes USD 20 million transfer to drive clean Mongolian energy sector
The Green Climate Fund is helping Mongolian enterprises kick start a national, low-carbon energy sector with its completion of a USD 20 million funds transfer to a Mongolian bank.
The bulk of GCF’s contribution, USD 19...
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UNDP head welcomes flow of GCF funds to the Maldives
Achim Steiner, United Nations Development Programme Administrator, said the Maldives will benefit from the current transfer of GCF funds to an adaptation project run by the UNDP.
While surrounded by water, many people...
Article > Press release Maldives 
GCF funds transfer will help Namibia’s rural poor weather change
The Green Climate Fund is transferring funds to two projects in Namibia to enhance farmers’ resilience to extreme weather in the latest sign of the Fund’s implementation of climate finance.
The funds transfer comes as...
Article > Press release Namibia 
GCF helps Vanuatu smooth climate finance path
The Green Climate Fund has disbursed USD 296,000 to Vanuatu to increase this vulnerable island country’s capacity to access climate finance.
The transfer of these funds is part of GCF’s readiness support, which assists...
Article > Press release Vanuatu 
Caribbean Dialogue concludes with momentum to advance GCF engagement for climate action
Participants who attended the Green Climate Fund Structured Dialogue with the Caribbean are returning home with better understanding of GCF and a sense of optimism of how to implement their climate action priorities....
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GCF focuses on getting funds flowing
The disbursement of Green Climate Fund financing is picking up pace, following a major focus of the Fund this year on implementing approved projects.
In GCF’s most recent disbursement of climate finance, in early June...
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