B.41/09: Guidance from the twenty-ninth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Co-Chairs’ proposal

The Board, having considered document GCF/B.41/08 titled “Guidance from the twenty-ninth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Co-Chairs’ proposal”:

  1. Takes note of this report, including the actions to be undertaken by the Board and Secretariat in 2025 in response to guidance received from the Parties during the twenty-ninth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as contained in annex IV;
  2. Approves the modifications to the arrangements between the Conference of the Parties and the Green Climate Fund, as outlined in the annex to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change decision XX/CP.29, thereby making the revised arrangements effective;
  3. Confirms, in this regard, its understanding that the Conference of the Parties will communicate guidance to GCF:
    1. Annually after each of its sessions, until the end of 2026, and biennially thereafter, after every other session;
    2. After each of its sessions immediately preceding the final year of each replenishment of GCF;
    3. Where applicable, after any of its sessions not referred to in subparagraphs (i) and (ii) above, should the Conference of the Parties decide to do so; and
  4. Requests the Co-Chairs, with the support of the Secretariat, to include an overview of progress in response to the guidance referred to in paragraph (a) above in the fourteenth report of the Green Climate Fund to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.