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Building climate resilience in India by initiating the national adaptation plan process and scaling up adaptation finance
India has been facing diverse and compounding impacts of climate change due to an increase in extreme weather events such as heatwaves, intense cyclones, and unusually heavy rainfall and floods. Additionally, slow...
Document > Approved readiness proposal India
GCF/B.40/23 - Decisions of the Board – fortieth meeting of the Board, 21 – 24 October 2024
Board document > Compendium of decisions
Board document > Compendium of decisions
Green Climate Fund will be ready to meet the challenge of central role in new climate finance goal says Executive Director
"Global climate ambition must keep rising, and it must be backed by finance that continues to grow in scale and quality. Developing countries are counting on it. Our shared future depends on it,” stated Green Climate...
Article > News update 
GCF Accreditation: Insights from the Project-specific Assessment Approach (PSAA) Pilot Implementation
The Project-Specific Assessment Approach (PSAA) to Green Climate Fund (GCF) Accreditation was adopted as an update to the GCF Accreditation Framework by decision B.31/06 in March 2022. This is one of two modalities for...
Event > Webinar 
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP099: Climate Investor One - Ampyr Dhule
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP099: Climate Investor One, specifically for the sub-project "Ampyr Dhule". Project and programme funding proposals that have...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report, Sub-project ESS report India
Barbados launches the world's first debt-for-climate-resilience conversion
The deal generated USD 125 million in fiscal savings which will be channeled into new resilience investments.
The debt conversion represents an innovative financing model for climate adaptation that avoids...
Article > Press release Barbados 
Strengthening Governance and Institutional Framework for Integrated Climate-change, Water, Energy and Food Security Strategies in Libya
The proposed Readiness project leverages past and current initiatives to enhance stakeholder coordination, conduct baseline studies, and promote an open-source database to address climate change challenges in Libya's...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Libya
Brazil Climate and Ecological Transformation Investment Platform (BIP) – Strengthening Brazil’s climate finance and transition capacities
Brazil’s ability to achieve its ambitious climate goals is currently hindered by several critical barriers, including the absence of a fully operational Secretariat for the Brazil Climate and Ecological Transformation...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Brazil
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
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP082: Catalyzing Climate Finance (Shandong Green Development Fund): Jiulong River Basin Comprehensive Management Sub-project (Phase I)
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP082: Catalyzing Climate Finance (Shandong Green Development Fund), specifically for the sub-project "Tianbao Town 100MW Agri-...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report, Sub-project ESS report China
Risk appetite statement
Adopted by decision B.40/16, paragraph (a). Updates the GCF risk appetite statement, providing direction to guide and steer the overall level of risk-taking and proactive risk management across GCF operations. The risk...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
General guidelines for the operation of Board committees
Adopted by decision B.40/03, paragraph (a). Sets out the general guidelines for the operation of Board committees covering membership, chairing arrangements, accountability mechanisms, terms of reference and the scope...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Policy for results-based payments for REDD+
Adopted by decision B.40/16, paragraph (a). Defines the integration of REDD+ results-based payment funding modality into the regular project and programming activity cycle of GCF, including specific requirements for...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Information Sessions on Revised Readiness Results Management Framework (“Revised RRMF”) of the Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme (RPSP)
The Revised RRMF is a key instrument for the GCF and its RPSP in supporting the developing countries to strengthen their capacities and planning and programming frameworks towards a transformational long-term climate...
Event > Webinar 
Integrated Landscape Management Approach for Climate-Resilient Water Security and Livelihoods in the Uganda Cattle Corridor (Project)
The ILMAC Project is seeking support from the GCF's project preparation facility to conduct various essential activities related to project preparation. The requested project preparation support encompasses several...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Uganda
MSMEs’ Climate Sound Technologies for Production Efficiency and Business Value in Kenya (MSMEs CST- Kenya)
This programme will tackle barriers that KCB, like other commercial banks, cannot overcome without the concessional funding from the GCF. These barriers encompass challenges of funding MSMEs and microfinance in the...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Kenya
Building a Water-Resilient Bogotá-Region Landscape
The PPF grant will enable the development and submission of a high-quality Funding Proposal. Although Conservation International has funded the preparation of the Concept Note and PPF application, and will cofinance the...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Colombia
Alternative Response Options for Mitigation & Adaptation of Coffee Farms (AROMA) Program
The PPF grant will enable CI and partners to develop and submit a high-quality Funding Proposal for this global Program that is informed by rigorous analyses, reflects ownership by stakeholders, and best serves the...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries
Executive Director’s remarks
The science tells us that the expected impacts of climate change will be worse than foreseen. We know that GHG emissions increased by 1.3% last year, a higher average than last decade.
SIDS are a priority for the Green...
Article > Speech
Executive Director’s remarks
Nearly a decade on from a Global Goal on Adaptation to balance funding for mitigation and adaptation – we are still not there.
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) provides more than half of our funding for adaptation. From...
Article > Speech
Executive Director Keynote Speech
As I was thinking about what to say today, I was taken back to my early days of climate work almost twenty years ago.
I was already working in international development, but I decided to target my work a little bit...
Article > Speech
Executive Director’s remarks
This is the second time that the funds come together at COP and also have a joint pavilion.
For the first time, we made a strong statement at last year's COP, making a commitment to come together more, implement system...
Article > Speech
Executive Director’s remarks
Nobody questions the fact that conflict is a critical impediment to eradicating poverty and ensuring development and prosperity. Because of this, it should be of great concern to all of us to observe that the number of...
Article > Speech
Re-connecting with Mother Earth
In the north of Colombia, in a region called La Mojana, three of the country’s most important rivers meet: the San Jorge, the Cauca and the Magdalena.
The junction forms part of one of the world’s largest wetlands, a...
Article > Story Colombia 
Lebanon Country Programme
This country programme by Lebanon presents the country’s climate change priorities, including a pipeline of projects that the country would like to develop with GCF.
Document > Country programme Lebanon
Contribution Agreement with Slovenia (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 Slovenia
Contribution Agreement with Sweden (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 Sweden
Climate-smart farming boosts forests and food security in Madagascar
In Madagascar — one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries — a devastating drought, punctuated by intense cyclones, has pushed more than a million people into hunger.
As extreme weather exacerbates poverty...
Article > Story Madagascar 