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Accelerating Ecuador's Climate Change Mitigation Initiatives with Strategic Action Plans and Investment FrameworksAccelerating Ecuador's Climate Change Mitigation Initiatives with Strategic Action Plans and Investment Frameworks
In Ecuador, the execution of climate change mitigation strategies faces challenges, including a lack of clear linkage between high-level climate objectives and actionable plans, difficulties in coordinating a vast array...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ecuador GGGI
Readiness Support for the Implementation of the IRMF for the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund (Funbio)
In October 2018, Funbio became Brazil’s first Direct Access Entity (DAE) accredited by the GCF, signing the Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) in March 2019. Funbio is allegedly one of Brazil's largest NGOs; since...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Brazil Funbio
Mobilizing International Climate Finance and Private Investments for Low-Carbon and Climate Resilient Development in Peru
Peru faces significant barriers in addressing climate change, including limited institutional capacity to integrate environmental, social, and climate considerations into financial planning and public debt tools; local...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Peru GGGI
Capacity building for scaling up climate finance in Bolivia and development of a pipeline of climate change projects
The Productive Development Bank (BDP) is in Stage 1 of its accreditation by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), and this proposal is aimed at giving continuity to the actions carried out in its Action Plan. BDP has initiated...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bolivia (Plurinational State of) PDB
Greening Ecuador Central Bank
The Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE) faces significant barriers in its institutional capacity, data production and disclosure mechanisms, and governance structure. These deficiencies limit the bank's ability to assess and...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ecuador GGGI
Aligning and increasing public and private financial flows towards Uruguay climate commitments and priorities
Uruguay’s public and private sector remain in an incipient stage of integrating sustainable, green or climate considerations in investment's decisions and portfolio allocations. This is mainly due to a lack of...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Uruguay UNDP
National Adaptation Plan (NAP) in the Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources sectors
Venezuela shows strong political commitment and has made significant progress in adaptation finance under the Paris Agreement. In order to comply with the provisions of the NDC (2021), financial support from the GCF...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) FAO
GCF 38th Board meeting to commence on 5 March with memorial to Daniel Machado da Fonseca
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) mourns the loss of Daniel Machado da Fonseca, GCF Board member and Head of the Climate Action Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil who passed away on 3 March 2024.
On behalf...
Article > News update 
GCF/B.38/01/Drf.03 - Provisional agenda
This document contains the draft provisional agenda for the thirty-eighth meeting of the Board.
Board document > Agenda
Rural women rising
With access to irrigated land, training in climate-resilient farming, and a platform to sell their produce, women farmers in Zimbabwe are forging new paths for economic independence and sustainable agriculture....
Article > Story 
In memoriam: Daniel Machado da Fonseca
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is deeply saddened at the passing of Daniel Machado da Fonseca on 3 March 2024. Daniel was a GCF Board member, climate action champion and beloved colleague.
Daniel recently joined the...
Article > Statement 
Contribution Agreement with Iceland (GCF-2)
Contributions to GCF are facilitated through Contribution Agreements or Arrangements signed by contributors, GCF, and the Trustee, which is the existing mechanism for receiving contributions to the Trust Fund.
This...
Document > Contribution arrangement / agreement Iceland
Update on FP146: Bio-CLIMA Integrated climate action to reduce deforestation and strengthen resilience in BOSAWÁS and Rio San Juan Biospheres
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has terminated the Funded Activity Agreement for the project, “Bio-CLIMA: Integrated climate action to reduce deforestation and strengthen resilience in BOSAWÁS and Rio San Juan Biospheres...
Article > Statement FP146 
Green Climate Fund: USD 1.26 billion for climate action in developing countries
Kigali, Rwanda – Hosted by Rwanda, the 38th Board meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) took place between 5-7 March, the first Board meeting of the year. The meeting began with a memorial to honour GCF Board member,...
Article > Press release 
Green Climate Fund and Somalia: Accelerated USD 100 million investment partnership
Mogadishu, Somalia – The Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) Executive Director, Mafalda Duarte headed the first-ever GCF delegation to Somalia, announcing an accelerated programme of climate action investment – anticipated at...
Article > Press release Somalia 
Funding proposal pipeline update as of February 2024
As part of its transparency efforts, GCF regularly provides a summary of the status of its funding proposal pipeline. This document summarises the status of GCF's pipeline as of February 2024.
Document > Funding proposal pipeline update
Meet iTAP webinar: Mitigation impact potential in transport
In this new session of Meet the iTAP, we are joined by Jürg Grütter, who has worked since 1991 on linking climate finance with the transport sector, having structured more than 500 projects in some 70 countries,...
Event > Webinar 
Chadian private sector support for low carbon and climate-resilient development
As a landlocked country, Chad is grappling with security challenges associated with the impacts of climate change, in particular accelerated desertification and the drying up of lake Chad. The country's social...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chad IFDD
Building national capacity to improve access to climate finance
This grant should enable the EIF, a potential direct access entity whose file is at stage 1: completeness check by the GCF Secretariat, to have proven expertise in mobilizing climate finance and developing climate...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Burkina Faso EIF
Building capacity to advance the National Adaptation Planning Process in Cameroon
The project outcomes will collectively reduce the population of Cameroon’s vulnerability to the impacts of climate change while building its adaptive capacity in a gender-responsive and socially inclusive manner....
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cameroon UNEP
Developing and implementing the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process in Burundi
As climate change intensifies, Burundi will experience a shift in seasons and unpredictable weather patterns. This is projected to cause increased flooding, land degradation, loss of soil fertility, shortages of...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Burundi UNDP
Strengthening Togo’s Institutional Capacity for a Low-Carbon Transport System (STILTS)
This readiness intends to support Togo in addressing its key climate change needs by building the institutional capacity of the country to implement a Low-carbon Emission Transport System.
Togo is among the most...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Togo GGGI
Linking National and Sub-national Adaptation Planning in Senegal
Climate change affects key Senegalese economic sectors. Of those, the following ones are noted as priorities by the country’s NDC: agriculture, fishery, health, coastal zones, water resources, biodiversity, livestock,...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Senegal UNDP
Enhancing enabling environment to support the decarbonisation of Moroccan steel production through the application of green hydrogen
The current proposal aims to contribute to enhancing the enabling environment by advancing on capacity building of public and private sector as well as enabling key policy levers that will inform and improve the country...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Morocco UNIDO
Strengthening Sector-level Strategic Framework and Institutional Capacity for advancing climate action in the St. Kitts and Nevis
This Readiness intends to strengthen sector-level Strategic Framework and Institutional Capacity for advancing climate action in the St. Kitts and Nevis. As noted before, the activities to be implemented are associated...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Saint Kitts and Nevis CCCCC
Strengthening the Capacity of the Ministry of Economic Development for pre-Accreditation to the Green Climate Fund
This proposed readiness grant is informed through an internal assessment and recommendation kof the MED (primarily using the GCF Self-Assessment Tool) and a gap assessment and action plan conducted through a previous...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Belize
Supporting the update of the Nationally Determined Contributions and the Second Adaptation Communication of Paraguay
There is a lack of a strategy framework that contemplates a stakeholder engagement plan, a climate financing strategy, a gender integration plan, and an assessment to identify specific areas where existing knowledge...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Paraguay IICA
Partnering on climate action in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia – Authorities and partners from across eastern Europe and central Asia came together to accelerate their engagement with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and share experiences of tackling...
Article > News update North Macedonia 
Contribution Agreement with Canada (GCF-2)
Contributions to GCF are facilitated through Contribution Agreements or Arrangements signed by contributors, GCF, and the Trustee, which is the existing mechanism for receiving contributions to the Trust Fund.
This...
Document > Contribution arrangement / agreement Canada
Restoring vital ecosystems and water sources in the Dry Corridor Forest, El Salvador
The Dry Corridor is a vast expanse of tropical, dry forest that spans six countries in Central America. It is home to 11.5 million rural people who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Unfortunately, the region...
Article > Story El Salvador FAO FP089 