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The Green Climate Fund will host three webinars on 15 March 2017 seeking feedback into its current development of a request for proposals for REDD+ results based payments. The webinars offer organisations and relevant...

Kyrgyzstan views cooperation with the Green Climate Fund as a central plank of its development, one of the mountainous country’s top diplomats told the Fund’s Executive Director Howard Bamsey today. “My country is...

Climate finance plays a key role in helping poor people who are most vulnerable to climate change, senior Philippine environment officials told a visiting GCF delegation led by Executive Director Howard Bamsey. “We...

Zambia highlighted the major steps it is taking to deal with climate change as part of the largest official delegation to visit GCF’s headquarters in Korea on 9 February. Welcoming the 23-member group, including three...

Howard Bamsey has officially begun his duties as new Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund Secretariat. Ambassador Bamsey is a prominent figure in climate change diplomacy. With more than 30 years of experience...

The first Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting to be held in the Pacific, and the final for 2016, closed today having approved eight new funding proposals and accredited seven new partner entities. The fifteenth...

Green Climate Fund resources will now start flowing to help poor farmers in northern Namibia tackle climate change following the signing today of a Funded Activity Agreement (FAA). The FAA signing with the Namibian...

The Green Climate Fund today provided the final approval to begin a combined mitigation and adaptation project stemming deforestation in Peru’s Amazon basin. The signing of a Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) between GCF...

Mongolia’s XacBank today signed an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) with the Green Climate Fund, setting out its partnership with GCF to forge low-emissions and climate-resilient development paths in Asia. “There...

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...