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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...

Funadhoo is the site of one of the first projects to be financed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the United Nations’ primary institution for supporting emission cutting investments, such as in renewable energy and...

Ramping up support to country partners in developing projects and programmes for consideration by the GCF Board will be the focus of a “readiness week” that GCF is organizing from 25 to 29 April at its headquarters in...

“This year will be important for demonstrating that the GCF can fund transformational actions in developing countries,” says Niranjali Amerasinghe, who studies climate finance at the World Resources Institute in...

The Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund, Héla Cheikhrouhou, today presented leaders from the Asia-Pacific region with the work of GCF to support opportunities for low-emission, climate-resilient development in...

The Board of the Green Climate Fund has taken a series of policy decisions designed to strengthen its partnerships and grow its project pipeline in 2016. The decisions, taken at the Board’s twelfth meeting (B.12),...

The Green Climate Fund made progress in closing administrative and policy gaps at a meeting in South Korea this week, and now faces the uphill task of allocating $2.5 billion this year for projects to tackle climate...

Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General, Dame Meg Taylor has congratulated the Government of Cook Islands on becoming the first Forum Island Country, and the first Small Island Developing State (SIDS), to receive a...

Board members and alternates from 37 countries have arrived in Songdo, Republic of Korea, for the twelfth meeting of the Board (B.12) of the Green Climate Fund, from 8 to 10 March 2016. Co-Chairs Zaheer Fakir (South...

The Cook Islands have received financial resources from the Green Climate Fund to strengthen their capacity to access finance through GCF. With this disbursement, Cook Islands are the first country in the Pacific region...