The Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at its seventeenth session, through its decision 3/CP.171, approved the Governing Instrument for the Green Climate Fund (annexed to that decision), which describes the role and the functions of the Board and designates the Fund as an operating entity of its financial mechanism.

This document lays out the provisions of decision 3/CP.17 and the Governing Instrument that establish the role and functions (or responsibilities) of the Board.