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Empowering direct access workshop 2017
GCF’s Empowering Direct Access workshop focused on supporting the Fund’s direct access entities (DAEs) – national and regional entities nominated for accreditation to the GCF by National Designated Authorities – to...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the) 
GCF Regional Workshop for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
The first GCF regional workshop for Eastern Europe and Central Asia took place between 31 May and 2 June 2017 in Tbilisi, Georgia. It targeted 15 countries, and was organized in collaboration with the Government of...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Georgia 
Empowering Direct Access Workshop 2018
GCF's second Empowering Direct Access workshop attracted over 90 participants. These participants included members of Direct Access Entities and National Designated Authorities (or focal points), which represent the...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the) 
Structured Dialogue with Asia 2017
GCF's Structured Dialogue with Asia aimed to develop a roadmap for priorities of the Fund in this region. The consultations took place in the context of the GCF Strategic Plan and recent Board decisions that provide...
Event > Structured dialogue Indonesia 
Structured Dialogue with the Caribbean 2017
The Green Climate Fund’s Structured Dialogue with the Caribbean, organized in collaboration with the Government of Belize, brought together key stakeholders to increase the involvement of Caribbean countries with the...
Event > Structured dialogue Belize 
GCF Adaptation Rationale Workshop
The GCF International Technical Workshop: Adaptation Rationale for Project Pipelines and other Climate Investment was held on 14-16 November 2018 in Cebu, Philippines. This three-day workshop was co-hosted by the...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Philippines (the) 
GCF Global NDA Conference 2018
The Green Climate Fund is pleased to host the Global NDA Conference on 8-9 and 12 October, alongside the Private Investment for Climate Conference on 10-11 October in Incheon, South Korea. These events will allow both...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the) 
24th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP24)
The 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP24, will be held from 3-14 December 2018 at Katowice, Poland. One of the most important tasks of this year's...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Poland 
Strengthening synergies: the role of the Green Climate Fund in implementing the Paris Agreement and the 2030 agenda
On 15 July 2019, the Green Climate Fund will be hosting an event on the Fund’s role in supporting the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the operationalisation of developing countries’ Nationally Determined...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF United States 
Sustainability guidance note: Screening and categorizing GCF-financed activities
This guidance note provides practical information for the Secretariat, accredited entities and executing entities, countries and other stakeholders in categorizing the environmental and social risks of activities...
Document > Guides
Gender policy
Adopted by decision B.24/12. Sets out the updated gender policy and gender action plan across its investment criteria, and as an integrated measure of the social dividends of the overall portfolio.
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
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Terms and conditions for the use of the Green Climate Fund's Website
The website of the Green Climate Fund (“the Website”), along with the information, content and documents contained thereon ("Materials") is...
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Privacy statement
Changes to our privacy statement
Please note that we have updated the GCF Privacy Statement effective 14 February 2020.
What has been changed?
The changes to our Privacy Statement are as follows:
GCF will now accept e...
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Sustainability guidance note: Designing and ensuring meaningful stakeholder engagement on GCF-financed projects
Stakeholder engagement is a key component of the Revised Environmental and Social Policy that applies to all activities financed by the GCF, and to both private and public sector accredited entities. The GCF is...
Document > Guides
Operational guidelines: Indigenous Peoples Policy
These guidelines provide guidance on the application of the Indigenous Peoples Policy that forms part of the Green Climate Fund’s environmental and social management system. The guidelines help to explain the...
Document > Guides
Accelerating Direct Access
The Green Climate Fund “readiness week” aims to support country partners in accelerating the development of projects and programmes for consideration by the GCF Board. Participants include 13 national and regional...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the) 
Adaptation: Accelerating action towards a climate resilient future
At Korea Global Adaptation Week in Songdo, GCF launched a new working paper, Adaptation: Accelerating Action Towards a Climate Resilient Future, to contribute to adaptation knowledge from the perspective of climate...
Article > News update 
GCF launches online submission system for SAP projects
Today, GCF launches the Online Submission System (OSS) for Simplified Approval Process (SAP) projects. This innovative solution for submitting SAP concept notes and funding proposals to GCF will improve the efficiency...
Article > News update 
Preventing sexual abuse in projects: Learnings from the World Bank
GCF further solidified its actions for zero-tolerance of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (SEAH) by introducing an updated SEAH Policy through the Independent Redress Mechanism's (IRM) preparation of an...
Article > News update 
Senegal climate resilience receives a boost with funding agreement
GCF has signed an agreement with Senegal's Centre de Suivi Écologique (CSE) to enhance the ability of local populations to deal with increasing soil salinisation caused by climate change. The signing of the Funded...
Article > News update 
Learn about GCF’s REDD+ support during June webinars
GCF will host the first of a series of REDD+ webinars on 19 and 20 June to provide information about the Fund’s support for this financing method which reduces greenhouse gases while also protecting and restoring...
Article > News update 
GCF strengthens private sector push in agreement with Proparco
GCF has enhanced its ability to tap financing from the business world with the recent signing of an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) with Proparco, the private sector arm of the development agency of France. The AMA...
Article > News update 
GCF signs integrity agreement with Attijariwafa Bank
Agreeing to cooperate and consult on integrity matters, the Independent Integrity Unit (IIU) of GCF signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Attijariwafa Bank. The MoU covers information-sharing, joint...
Article > News update 
GCF regional workshop spurs private sector engagement in the Caribbean
The first GCF Regional Workshop to mobilise Private Sector took place on 2-4 April in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Following the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) Structured Dialogue with the Caribbean in 2017, the National...
Article > Press release Jamaica 
UN forum side event highlights need for GCF replenishment
The Green Climate Fund needs to be strengthened by a replenishment of its funds from contributors this year as a sign of the “radical collaboration” needed to address the unprecedented climate challenge.
This was one...
Article > Press release 
GCF scaling-up clean energy access through solar based mini-grids in Mali
Mali is a landlocked country in the Sahel belt of West Africa where 80% of the population in the rural areas do not have access to electricity, while those with access are getting most of the electricity from diesel...
Article > Story Mali 
Lightning strikes: How installing a modern lightning detecting system in Malawi is saving lives and livelihoods
As another year of devastating events unfolds, including Cyclone Idai - one of the worst tropical cyclones on record to affect Africa and the Southern Hemisphere – natural disasters are a constant reminder to us that...
Article > Article about GCF Malawi 
Green Climate Fund must take risks in warming fight, says new head
The Green Climate Fund can become a “completely unprecedented” tool to ramp up action on climate change in developing nations, allowing states, companies and communities to experiment more - as long as its coffers are...
Article > Article about GCF 
Barbados launches first Caribbean climate resilience project
A launch event at the Bowmanston water pumping station has marked the start of the Water Sector Resilience Nexus for Sustainability in Barbados (WSRN S-Barbados) project, the first GCF-funded project in the Caribbean to...
Article > Press release Barbados 
Barbados signs privileges and immunities agreement with GCF
The government of Barbados has signed an agreement with GCF granting it privileges and immunities in line with those of other international organisations and those applied in the United Nations system.
The agreement was...
Article > Press release Barbados 