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GCF results-based payments: Stepping stone to unlock private finance at scale
... environment continued to move slowly. While the rules governing REDD+ were finally agreed in 2013, finance for its ... Forest Finance (LEAF) Coalition. As a coalition of both governments and over 20 large corporations, LEAF facilitates ... Rica case studies Back in 2017, GCF’s pilot programme was instrumental in providing new momentum to REDD+. It gave ...
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GCF in Brief: Support for Technology
Technology solutions and innovations are instrumental to facilitate the move towards low-emission and ...
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GCF in Brief: Private sector financing
GCF promotes private sector investment through concessional instruments, including low-interest and long-tenor project ...
Document > GCF in Brief
High-level dialogue on building a green, healthy and resilient future with forests
... Through its grant-based readiness programme, GCF supports Government’s efforts to incorporate the value of forest in ... policy and financial decision-making processes and instruments. GCF is currently supporting the preparation ... new and innovative technologies, business models, financial instruments and practices. For example, the $600m Amazon ...
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GCF/B.19/22/Add.07 - Funding proposal package for FP065
... three parts: A funding proposal summary titled “Financial Instruments for Brazil Energy Efficient Cities ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.19/22/Add.06 - Funding proposal package for FP064
... proposal summary titled “Promoting risk mitigation instruments and finance for renewable energy and energy ...
Board document > Action item
Accountability
Overview
In our operations, we have established mechanisms to ensure accountability, manage risk, and to evaluate the performance of our activities, in order to ensure the application of safeguards as well as...
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Changing the nomination of a National Designated Authority (NDA) or Focal Point
National Designated Authorities (NDAs) are government institutions that serve as the interface between each country and the Fund. Governments that have previously designated an NDA or Focal ...
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GCF/B.12/12 - Status of the Initial resource mobilization process: Loan agreement/arrangement
... the terms of the Loan Arrangement entered into with the Government of Canada and the Loan Agreement entered into ... acting on behalf of and at the risk of the French Government. GCF/B.12/12 Status of the Initial resource ...
Board document > Action item
Nomination of a National Designated Authority (NDA) or Focal Point
National Designated Authorities (NDAs) are government institutions that serve as the interface between each country and the Fund. Governments may use this template to inform GCF of the ...
Document > Template
Financing climate ambition in the context of COVID-19
... Corporation (IFC)] At the onset I would like to thank the governments of Germany and the UK for co-hosting this ... of these two countries to raise climate ambition. The governments of Germany and UK both doubled their initial ... make them bankable. The Green Climate Fund is one of the instruments that has been created to help in converting ...
Article > Speech
Gender
Overview
The impacts of climate change affect women and men differently. Women are the hardest hit by dramatic shifts in climatic conditions. Women’s mortality from climate-related disasters is higher than that of men...
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Colombian President calls for enhanced public-private climate action
... they share," said Mr Bamsey. "With a diversity of financing instruments and support programmes, the GCF can match the ... from 19 nations across the region, including government ministers from Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, ...
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GCF launches Simplified Approvals Process for faster, simpler approval of small-scale projects
... for smaller-scale projects, as called for in the Fund’s Governing Instrument,” said Samoa’s Ambassador Aliioaiga Feturi ...
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GCF investment supports green energy transition in Chile
... account for the majority of Chile’s energy supply and the government has been working to increase the share of ... exceed USD 2 billion, covering a variety of financial instruments such as loans, grants, guarantees and equity. ...
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GCF approves Project Preparation Facility grant to establish Barbados green bank
... This follows several discussions between GCF and the Government of Barbados on the establishment of a green bank, ... the financing of green bonds and other capital market instruments. BGIC will strengthen financing capacity and ...
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Green Climate Fund Board approves USD 267 million for climate action, agrees decision-making procedures
... 99 developing countries. Responding to a mandate within its Governing Instrument, the twenty-four member Board also developed ...
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Scaling up CoP event outlines COP26 outcomes and ways forward
... up must be enormous and supported by a variety of financial instruments in addition to grants. Moreover, it will be ... process. Lord Nicholas Stern, Professor of Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on ...
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Revised initial financial risk management framework
... risk policies, risk monitoring and reporting, and risk governance components, as updated by the Risk Management ...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Funding risk policy (Component VII)
... B.19/04 (a) (iii). This document presents the policy governing funding risk management for the GCF. Board Funding ...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Green and climate resilience bonds – Scaling up access to affordable finance in developing countries, notably in LDCs
... could also contribute to mitigate such risks by enabling governments to assert their political commitment to fight ... its grant-based readiness programme the efforts of the Government of Jamaica to set up a Caribbean green bond ... in six key areas of the bioeconomy with a mix of financial instruments, including green bonds, to de-risk ...
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COP27 summit host Egypt is first country to adopt Climate Investment Plan in partnership with Green Climate Fund
... can engage more and more the private sector together with governments, to finance climate change projects and to get ... the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report- is being taken as the Government of Egypt’s climate change strategy is ... global network of over 200 partners, combined with flexible instruments, patient risk-taking capital and a ...
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Delivering climate action: GCF and partners sign agreements for six new projects
... forest and landscape management. The project will be instrumental in safeguarding one of Africa’s most ... be achieved by strengthening health system leadership and governance at national and subnational levels, expanding ... Climate (FNEC) of Benin This project aims to empower local governments and communities for adaptation and increase ...
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ED opening remarks
... feature of the climate negotiations in Glasgow. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated in its ... equally important. In addition to their role as enablers, governments are essential to the creation and development of ... stimulus measures and in exploring innovative financing instruments to finance them without increasing their debt ...
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Making blended finance work for nature-based solutions
... This paper provides an overview of various financial instruments available for climate action and nature ... finance at scale. This paper discusses five categories of instruments to catalyze finance for nature-based solutions and how instruments can be combined for maximum impact, such as ...
Document > Working paper
Addressing the climate crisis: scaling up existing climate innovation and investment
... very limited and start-up promotion programmes funded by governments are scarce. There are few early-stage investors ... private finance. Thousands of environmental policies and instruments to shape markets are currently in use to foster ... stimulate the economy and mitigate the impact of Covid-19, governments are undertaking large-scale expansionary fiscal ...
Article > Speech
Getting Grenada Private Sector Ready for Grenada’s Climate Finance (GPS-4-GCF)
... climate finance, the unavailability of innovative financing instruments, as well as limited knowledge and understanding of these instruments in the context of climate financing, have been ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Grenada
Secretariat
Overview
GCF has a fully independent Secretariat which is responsible for executing the day-to-day operations of the Fund. It services and is accountable to the Board.
Today, GCF has around 220 staff members at its...
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Mitigation
The challenge
Global emissions must be cut by 45 per cent by 2030 from 2010 levels if we are to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC. However, the current energy generation and end-use...
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