High-level Pledging Conference for GCF's second replenishment (GCF-2)

Event type Events organised / involving GCF
Participation
By invitation only

Date 5 October 2023
Location Bonn, Germany

The High-Level Pledging Conference is a key opportunity to demonstrate global commitment to achieve our collective climate ambitions. GCF is a critical element of the climate finance architecture, as part of the financial mechanism of the UNFCCC and in serving the Paris Agreement. GCF supports developing countries to respond to the climate crisis and transition to low-emission, climate-resilient pathways. GCF is a climate finance catalyzer, using its funds to accelerate green market creation and unlock larger financial flows from the private sector. A successful replenishment will allow GCF to invest more funds to create an enabling environment for climate action, driving systemic transitions in critical areas of global concern.

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Recording

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Agenda

08:30 - 09:00

Registration and coffee

09:00 - 09:15

Opening of the conference

Opening remarks

Mr. Jochen Flasbarth

State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

Welcoming remarks

Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin

Facilitator for GCF’s Second Replenishment

09:15 - 12:00

Pledging session for interested contributors

Chaired by

Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin

Facilitator for GCF’s Second Replenishment

I. Opening remarks

Video

H.E. Mr. Olaf Scholz

Chancellor of Germany

Video

Mr. Selwin Hart

Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition

H.E. Mr. Sameh Shoukry

COP27 President and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, delivered by Ambassador Wael Ahmed Kamal Aboul-Magd in his capacity as the representative of the President

H.E. Ms. Svenja Schulze

Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

Ms. Mafalda Duarte

Executive Director, Green Climate Fund

II. Statements of pledges from interested contributors

III. Signing ceremony of contribution agreements

12:00 - 12:30

Presentations of the outcomes of the pledging session and group photo

12:30 - 13:15

Press conference

H.E. Ms. Svenja Schulze

Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

The Honourable Mr. Mark Brown

Prime Minister of Cook Islands

Ms. Mafalda Duarte

Executive Director, Green Climate Fund

Ms. Jennifer Morgan

State Secretary and Special Envoy for Climate Action, Federal Foreign Office, Germany

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch and refreshments

14:00 - 15:15

High-Level dialogue: The role of GCF in a changing world – Perspectives and opportunities

Moderator

Ms. Asja Begić

Youth Activist, Member of the Klimadelegation e.V.

Mr. Jochen Flasbarth

State Secretary, Germany

The Honourable Mr. Mark Brown

Prime Minister of Cook Islands

Mr. Patrick Karera

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Republic of Rwanda

Ms. Helen Magata

Member of the Indigenous Peoples Advisory Group, Representative of indigenous Kadaclan from Paracelis, Mountain Province, Philippines and Communications Officer of Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy, Research and Education)