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GCF/B.10/08 - Fourth Report of the Green Climate Fund to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
This document contains the fourth annual report of the Green Climate Fund (the Fund) to the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It covers the activities...
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GCF/B.10/16 - Recommendations from the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Board of the Green Climate Fund
This document contains the recommendations of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Board in accordance with its mandate to make recommendations to the Board on Fund-wide engagement with the private sector and...
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GCF/B.08/41 - Private Sector Advisory Group: Initial Recommendations on the Development of the Fund’s Risk Appetite
The Annex of this document contains recommendations from the Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG) on document GCF/B.08/32 Initial Risk Management Framework: Survey of Methodologies to Define and Determine Risk Appetite...
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GCF/B.08/14 - Working with Local Private Entities, Including Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
The purpose of this document is to outline how the Fund can promote participation of private sector actors in climate change programmes and projects in developing countries, including local financial intermediaries,...
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GCF/B.08/40 - Recommendations from the Private Sector Advisory Group: Private Sector Facility: Engaging Local Private Sector Actors, including Small-and Medium Sized Enterprises
This document contains the recommendations of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Board in accordance with its mandate to make recommendations to the Board on Fund-wide engagement with the private sector and...
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GCF/B.08/39 - Options for an Institutional Linkage between the United Nations and the Fund
This document outlines the special features of the current institutional linkage between the United Nations and the secretariat of the UNFCCC, and explores the implications of and options for an institutional linkage...
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GCF/B.08/38 - Recommendations from the Private Sector Advisory Group: Private Sector Facility: Instruments to Mobilize Private Sector Resources
This document contains the recommendations of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Board in accordance with its mandate to make recommendations to the Board on Fund-wide engagement with the private sector and...
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GCF/B.08/37 - Recommendations from the Private Sector Advisory Group: Private Sector Facility: Mobilizing Funds at Scale
This document contains the recommendations of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Board in accordance with its mandate to make recommendations to the Board on Fund-wide engagement with the private sector and...
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GCF/B.08/36 - Decisions Approved between Seventh and Eighth Meeting
This document sets out the decisions approved between the seventh and eighth Board meetings.
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GCF/B.08/35 - Draft Report to the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC
The following draft report is a working draft for consideration by the Board, to be revised to reflect comments from the Board and decisions taken during its eighth meeting.
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GCF/B.08/34 - Relationships with Relevant UNFCCC Thematic Bodies
This document provides an overview of present and possible future collaboration opportunities between the Fund and relevant UNFCCC thematic bodies and external bodies.
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GCF/B.08/33/Add.01 - Trustee Arrangements, Including the Review of the Interim Trustee and the Initiation of a Process to Select the Trustee of the Fund - Addendum
The cover note included in Annex II should have been included in document GCF/B.08/33. It is included as received without changes or editing.
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GCF/B.08/33 - Trustee Arrangements, Including the Review of the Interim Trustee and the Initiation of a Process to Select the Trustee of the Fund
The purpose of this document is to seek guidance from the Board on the approach to and steps to be taken in reviewing the interim trustee arrangements and the selection process for a trustee.
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GCF/B.08/32 - Initial Risk Management Framework: Survey of Methodologies to Define and Determine Risk Appetite
By its decision B.07/05, paragraph (b), the Board adopted the Green Climate Fund’s initial financial risk management framework.
By the same decision, paragraph (e), the Board requested the Secretariat, in consultation...
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GCF/B.08/31 - Administrative Guidelines on Procurement
The Board approved the Administrative Policies of the Fund covering Human Resources, Administrative Budget, Procurement and Asset Management, Information and Communication Technology, and Audit and Internal Controls....
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GCF/B.08/30 - Travel Policy
The Secretariat recognizes that travellers on official business act in the best interest of the Fund. However, in doing so, travellers should be prudent and cost‐conscious with respect to business travel practices and...
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GCF/B.08/29 - Methodology for Decisions between Meetings
The purpose of this document is to propose, for consideration by the Board, a streamlined methodology for decisions that the Co-Chairs have determined may be requested between meetings pursuant to paragraph 42 of the...
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GCF/B.08/28 - Work Plan of the Board for 2015
This document sets out the Board’s work plan for 2015. The work plan outlines the timing of Board decisions on operational and policy matters that need to be addressed to further develop the organization and enhance the...
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GCF/B.08/27 - Commecement Annual Reporting External Audit Process
The Green Climate Fund must determine which accounting standards to follow in accounting for its income and expenditure and in preparing and presenting its financial statements. ‘Accounting standards’ refer to the body...
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GCF/B.08/25 - Terms of Reference for Appointment Committee
By its decision B.06/08, the Board requested the Secretariat to “present to the seventh Board meeting a proposal, with draft terms of reference, to establish a Board committee to assist the Board in the appointments,...
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GCF/B.08/24 - Administrative Budget of the Fund for 2015
The activities of the Board, the Secretariat and the Interim Trustee are supported through an administrative budget approved by the Board. This budget is approved against the funds available in the Green Climate Fund...
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GCF/B.08/23 - Legal and Formal Arrangements with Intermediaries and Implementing Entities
By its decision B.07/02, the Board decided that the accreditation process for intermediaries and implementing entities will comprise three main stages. Stage III will include the conclusion of legal arrangements between...
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GCF/B.08/22 - Simplified Processes for the Approval of Proposals for Certain Activities, in Particular Small-scale Activities
At its seventh meeting, the Board adopted an initial proposal approval process (decision B.07/03).
The purpose of this document is to outline simplified processes for the approval of proposals for certain activities,...
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GCF/B.08/21 - Initial Approval Process - Draft Terms of Reference of the Independent Technical Advisory Panel
The Board, through its decision B.07/03, established an Independent Technical Advisory Panel (the Panel) composed of experts to provide an independent technical assessment of and advice on funding proposals for the...
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GCF/B.08/20 - Further Development of the Initial Investment Framework
By its decision B.07/06, paragraph (a), the Board adopted the initial investment framework of the Green Climate Fund.
At the same meeting the Board requested the Investment Committee to submit the following for...
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GCF/B.08/19 - Gender Policy and Action Plan
Following a decision B.05/22, the Fund’s Secretariat prepared GCF/B.06/13 Options for a Fund-wide Gender-sensitive Approach. At its sixth meeting the Board, having considered document GCF/B.06/13:
Requested the...
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GCF/B.08/18 - Legal Arrangements for Contributions
Further to document GCF/B.08/16 Legal Arrangements for Contributions, this document outlines the legal arrangements to be entered into with regard to contributions if and to the extent that the Board endorses the...
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GCF/B.08/17 - Decision-Making Procedures for the Board in the Absence of Consensus
This document provides suggestions for decision-making principles in the event all efforts at reaching consensus have been exhausted. For a technical explanation of common features of voting models and a description of...
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GCF/B.08/16 - Policies for Contributions
By its decision B.07/09, the Board decided to commence the process to mobilize resources and requested the Secretariat to make arrangements with all interested contributors, facilitating a collective engagement in the...
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GCF/B.08/15 - Outcome of the IRM
Pursuant to decision B.07/09, a process of collective engagement in the Fund's Initial Resource Mobilization (IRM) process was launched with potential contributors. The first IRM meeting was held on 30 June–1 July in...
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