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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...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) this week welcomed over 170 representatives from Pacific Islands countries, Accredited Entities to the GCF, development partners, civil society and the private sector to the Pacific Regional...

The Government of Australia and the GCF Secretariat are working together to co-host the second Green Climate Fund (GCF) regional meeting in the Pacific, which will take place from 1 to 4 August. Hosted at the Pacific...

During its 13th Meeting, 28-30 June 2016, the GCF Board endorsed a Request for Proposals (RFP) to identify qualified financial institutions that will undertake the design, implementation and management of strong, high-...

The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has launched the process to recruit a new Executive Director for the GCF Secretariat and invites applications for all interested individuals. Vacancy notice Based at GCF's...

Good morning Board members, Partners, observers, civil society organizations, and private sector representatives, Colleagues, Today is my last day with the Green Climate Fund Board. For me, this is a day of reflection...

The thirteenth meeting of the Board (B.13) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved its first funding proposals for 2016 totalling USD 256.6 million in GCF funding. “The close of B.13 marks the half-way point for...

The Green Climate Fund has announced a pilot to strengthen countries’ decision-making authority over resources dedicated to supporting their climate change projects and programmes. The pilot phase for additional...

Green Climate Fund Board Members, Alternate Members and observers have gathered for their thirteenth meeting, which runs from 28-30 June at GCF Headquarters in Songdo, Republic of Korea. GCF Co-Chairs Zaheer Fakir (...

The thirteenth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund (B.13) will be held in Songdo, Republic of Korea, from 28 to 30 June 2016. B.13 shifts the focus from operational essentials to the GCF's core business of...

The GCF website has received several significant updates to make its online presence more interactive. The Fund's Portfolio overview showcases GCF's projects by geographic and programmatic distribution, as well as the...

On the sidelines of the Eighth Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference in Batumi, Georgia, country representatives from Eastern Europe and Central Asia participated in a Green Climate Fund (GCF) briefing to...

Acumen Fund, Inc., the not-for-profit global investment fund, has become the first GCF private sector accredited entity to formalise its relationship with the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Acumen Fund has signed an...

The upcoming 13th meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board will be live web-cast to enable the broader GCF stakeholder community to follow the deliberations of the sessions. The live web-casting will make it...

Government, community, civil society and private sector representatives from the Cook Islands have come up with initial project ideas for what might populate their country programme to tackle climate change—supported by...

Eight new public sector project proposals have been published ahead of the Board’s thirteenth meeting later this month. The proposals amount to a total request for investment of USD 208 million from the Fund. They will...

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United Nations’ authority on the state of the planet’s atmosphere and climate, has become the first UN specialized agency to formalize its relationship with the Green...

During a visit to the headquarters of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Mr. Hoesung Lee, underscored the urgency in strengthening the connection between the...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has articulated its post-Paris vision, highlighting the need for high-quality, ambitious funding proposals to scale up action under the Fund and incite the necessary paradigm shift. At a...

The Green Climate Fund concluded its first "Readiness Week" to assist direct access entities in developing their project ideas. The week-long event brought together the 13 organizations that have been accredited for...

GCF’s direct access country partners take part in UN Women training session on women’s empowerment to scale up climate action The “why” and “how” of mainstreaming women’s empowerment in the context of climate change...

Speaking at United Nations Headquarters in New York on the occasion of the Paris Agreement and Earth Day, GCF Executive Director Héla Cheikhrouhou today called for urgent action to drive low-emission, climate-resilient...