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The Government of the Independent State of Samoa today signed an agreement with the Green Climate Fund to provide the organisation with Privileges and Immunities. The agreement was signed on the occasion of the 15th...

The fifteenth meeting of the Green Climate Fund Board commences today in the Independent State of Samoa. Over the next three days, the 24-member Board will focus on consideration of nine new project proposals and...

Samoa’s Minister for Finance, the Hon Sili Epa Tuioti, and Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Senator the Hon Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, have welcomed delegates to the first GCF Board...

The fifteenth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund (B.15) will be held in Apia, Samoa, from 13 to 15 December 2016. It will be the first time the Board has met in the Pacific. According to GCF Board Co-Chairs...

The ‘what and how’ of engaging with GCF was the focus of a one-day workshop held on 29 November in Papua New Guinea (PNG) to advance the country’s climate agenda and its access to the Fund. Co-organized by the...

The Green Climate Fund hosted its first regional workshop for Latin American countries to advance the region’s push to be a leader in promoting low-emission and climate-resilient sustainable development. The three-day...

Effective water management is playing an increasingly key role in responding to climate change, the acting head of the Green Climate Fund Secretariat has told an international water symposium in Hungary. “Water is...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has concluded Readiness Framework Agreements with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für...

During COP 22, Luxembourg’s Environment Minister, Ms. Carole Dieschbourg, and the Green Climate Fund Executive Director a.i., Mr. Javier Manzanares, met to discuss the Fund’s progress over the past year, as well as GCF’...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) held a country dialogue with National Designated Authorities (NDAs) and focal points to discuss strengthening support for country ownership and engagement. The informal meeting in the...

The second side-event hosted by GCF at COP22 turned the spotlight onto the Fund’s role in implementing the Paris Agreement. Following last week’s event examining the Fund's progress to date, the GCF Board Co-Chairs...

Belize and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) have signed letters of agreement to approve readiness funding for the Caribbean island. The letters were signed by Omar Figueroa, Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries,...

The leadership of the Green Climate Fund engaged in a series of high-level consultations on climate finance at COP 22 today. Ewen McDonald, GCF Board Co-Chair, addressed a Ministerial dialogue on climate finance,...

The Namibian Environmental Investment Fund (EIF) today signed a grant agreement with the Green Climate Fund (GCF), making it the first direct access entity to be supported by the Fund’s readiness programme. The grant...

The Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) today became the first multilateral development bank to sign an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) with the Green Climate Fund (GCF), giving the go-ahead to partner on low-...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) today announced the approval of its first grants in support of processes to develop National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). Under the GCF's Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme, Liberia...

The first GCF Structured Dialogue with Africa brought together 103 officials from 48 African countries, several GCF Board Members, and representatives from 24 Accredited Entities and 18 other organizations, including...

Dear GCF Partners and Friends, If you are at COP 22 in Marrakech, please come and visit the ‘GCF Dome’ at the conference venue to find out about GCF’s activities! The Green Climate Fund is at the twenty-second session...

The Green Climate Fund hosted its first side-event at the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change in Marrakech to present the progress it has made to date in supporting low-emission and...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) have signed a Readiness Framework Agreement to enable developing countries to partner with FAO on activities that...

The Co-Chairs of the Green Climate Fund held their first annual meeting with the thematic bodies of the UNFCCC during the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties in Marrakech, Morocco, on 9 November 2016. The...

The first Green Climate Fund Structured Dialogue with Africa concluded this week after three days of focused deliberations on helping countries map out their engagement with the Fund. This vision cumulated in an...

The first-ever Green Climate Fund (GCF) Structured Dialogue with Africa has started in Cape Town, South Africa, with 200 participants convening over the next three days to accelerate their strategic engagement with the...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has reached a new milestone today with the approval of USD 745 million in funding proposals at its fourteenth meeting. The 10 projects and programmes have a total value of USD 2.6 billion,...

The Board of the Green Climate Fund has selected Mr. Howard Bamsey as the Executive Director of the Fund’s Secretariat. The decision was taken by consensus during the Board’s fourteenth meeting, following an extensive...

The fourteenth meeting of the GCF Board commences today at the Fund’s headquarters in Songdo. Over the next three days, the 24 members of the Board will consider ten new project proposals. The project and programme...

The fourteenth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from Wednesday, 12 October to Friday, 14 October 2016 in Songdo, Republic of Korea. Constituency meetings, as well as meetings of Board...

Mr. Javier Manzanares has become the Executive Director ad interim of the Green Climate Fund Secretariat. Mr. Manzanares, the Fund's Chief Financial Officer, was appointed Executive Director ad interim by the GCF Board...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) have signed an Accreditation Master Agreement, strengthening their partnership to deliver low-emission and climate-resilient development...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Acumen Fund today signed a Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) enabling the disbursement of funds to implement the first approved project proposal from Acumen (a private sector accredited...