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Enhancing Access for Climate Finance Opportunities, through pre accreditation support to Belize Social Investment Fund (BSIF) and Ministry of Economic Development-Belize and technical support for Belize National Protected Areas System (BNPAS) Entities, Belize
Belize, like many other Small Island Developing States (SIDS), is particularly vulnerable to ... with limited access to national financial, technological, and technical resources to build the country’s resilience. ... Region, Belize recognizes the need to take proactive actions towards a climate resilient development pathway. ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Belize
Supporting the Creation of “REDD+ Catalytic Fund” pipeline of projects (Multiple countries)
Even though forests represent 30% of earth’s land, it will only take 100 years or less to witness their ... into the atmosphere. There seems to be a general understanding that tackling this issue is a prerequisite for any ... where public and private institutions will invest in actions that aim to slow, stop or reverse the loss of ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
Exploring the potential for ocean-climate pipeline for mitigation and adaptation in Brazil
Brazil can design diverse and innovative projects on climate change, in different ... The identification will follow robust evidence-based information and promote stakeholders' engagement from the ... to start designing an overall ocean pipeline for climate action and specific projects for the GCF. Brazil Exploring ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Brazil
Increasing the Capacity of Bangladesh’s NDA and Direct Access Accredited Entities to Access GCF Resources
... purpose of this readiness project is to support the NDA and key partners (i.e., existing and future DAEs, training institutes, private sector and ... strengthen their capacities for 1) mainstreaming climate action and finance into policy and practice through ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bangladesh
Readiness Support for the Implementation of the IRMF for DAE (Fast-Track)
Facing that urgency to take actions against the devastating climate crisis, KDB has been ... has been designed to support Cambodia’s low-emission and climate resilient development pathways through climate responsive transformation of the national financial system with leveraging ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cambodia
GCF Executive Director featured on TIME100 Climate List
... Climate list , which recognises the 100 most innovative and influential leaders driving climate action. Since the start of her term in August 2023, ... is to support the climate ambitions of developing countries and help secure our shared futures. Her “50by30” ...
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FP015 - Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP)
Protecting the small island nation of Tuvalu from the impact of rising sea level and increasing cyclone events that threaten the country’s ... reducing the impact of increasingly intensive wave action on key infrastructure. The investments will build ...
Project > Public sector Tuvalu ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/project/image-fp015.jpg?itok=Z2r-Jcwg)
FP126 - Increased climate resilience of rural households and communities through the rehabilitation of production landscapes in selected localities of the Republic of Cuba (IRES)
... increase the climate resilience of agricultural production and ensure food security through improved ecosystem services ... from agroforestry, silvopastoral systems, reforestation and assisted natural forest regeneration in seven ... selected two specific areas of the country for immediate action encompassing four municipalities in Las Tunas ...
Project > Public sector Cuba ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/project/image-fp126_0.jpg?itok=pp0it_qj)
FP210 - KawiSafi II
... climate change than almost anywhere else on the planet. Sub-Saharan countries face temperature increases ... health, agriculture, food security, economic development and human welfare in a region that is already challenged on ... invest in local enterprises developing scalable climate action projects to the benefit of climate-endangered African ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/project/image-fp210.jpg?itok=i3IJMteC)
FP211 - Hardest-to-Reach
... people in the sub-Saharan region live without electricity and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future without ... adequate intervention. Investment barriers such as risky and nascent market, hard-to-reach locality, and lack of ... communities will be a crucial component of climate action not only in the sub-Saharan region, but for the ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/project/image-fp211.jpg?itok=nlttU-bt)
FP221 - Rwanda Green Investment Facility (RGIF)
Rwanda is considered highly vulnerable to climate change in both mitigation and adaption aspects. Faced with multiple climate hazards ... impede private sector investment from flowing to climate action. RGIF will create two financing facilities to support ...
Project > Private sector Rwanda ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/project/image-fp221.jpg?itok=yqooCa0j)
SAP041 - ALBAdapt – Climate Services for a Resilient Albania
... in Europe, with significant exposure to extreme weather and climate-related events. This vulnerability is ... due to a lack of robust, science-based climate information and the ability to translate this information into actionable warnings and decisions. This project addresses ...
Project > Public sector Albania ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/project/image-sap041.jpg?itok=mUaKQJ-Y)
Corporación Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura, S.A.
... financial institution in middle-market infrastructure and energy financing in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and provides advisory services and ... With GCF, CIFI intends to focus its efforts on: proposing actions to address barriers to attracting global financial ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), Direct (Regional)
GCF completes USD 20 million transfer to drive clean Mongolian energy sector
... allow Mongolia’s XacBank extend loans to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to break down financial ... first and only bank specializing in eco-banking in 2009. At the end of last year, GCF designated XacBank as a ... a low-carbon energy sector. In accordance with GCF’s gender focus, at least half of GCF’s loan support in this ...
Article > Press release Mongolia ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/article/image-header-mongoliaxacbank.jpg?itok=oe16NV_t)
Empowering GCF Direct Access Entities focus of upcoming workshop
... Authorities (NDAs), GCF Readiness delivery partners and GCF staff to strengthen entities’ capacity across key ... that have been already submitted to GCF; key elements when formulating proposals, like mainstreaming gender, environmental and social safeguards, risk; and the ...
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Readiness Support for the Implementation of the IRMF for Vietnam Development Bank
... experience in loan selection, appraisal, management and financing for climate change projects, mitigation and adaptation projects. For those projects, VDB has to ... especially related to the environment and social and gender safeguards. VDB wishes to increase its portfolio of ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Viet Nam
Advancing an Integrated Fire Management Approach in Colombia
... is a central part of integrated fire management approaches. And while Colombia has a long history of cultural burning ... about the importance of community-led prescribed burns and of the potential of technologies for emissions reduction ... regions. This proposal also addresses mainstreaming gender issues in fire management. For example, ISFMI’s ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Colombia
Sustainability guidance note: Designing and ensuring meaningful stakeholder engagement on GCF-financed projects
... engagement is a key component of the Revised Environmental and Social Policy that applies to all activities financed by ... and constructive processes to ensure that people are well informed, their ideas are advanced, and their concerns are ... Revised Environmental and Social Policy, Updated Gender Policy and Indigenous Peoples Policy of the GCF. GCF ...
Document > Guides
GCF-EIF agreement opens way for start of Namibian nature-based climate solution
... the resilience of ecosystems to help communities withstand climate change. GCF and EIF have signed a Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) which ... Goals, including the fight against climate change, gender equality, poverty eradication and the fight against ...
Article > Press release Namibia ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/article/image-fullbleed-faa-sap006.jpg?itok=8lKJz6A4)
Virtual Stakeholder Consultation on the topic of the development of the GCF’s ESS - Stage 1: scoping
... (GCF) is to promote the paradigm shift towards low-emission and climate-resilient development pathways by providing ... Finance Corporation’s Environmental and Social Performance Standards as its interim ESS. The development of ... policies such as the Indigenous Peoples Policy, Updated Gender Policy, and Information Disclosure Policy, among ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/event/fullbleed-ess-webinar.jpg?itok=EBLqttKA)
Indigenous Peoples regional dialogue reaffirms GCF commitment to vulnerable local communities
The Regional dialogue of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean took place on 18-20 February in Managua, ... Nicaragua. Organised by the Government of Nicaragua, FILAC, and FAO and supported by the GCF Readiness Programme, the ... all of us have, throughout the ages and the world, to take action in the present.” “This was the first indigenous ...
Article > Press release Nicaragua ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/article/image-fullbleed-ip-forum.jpg?itok=8HKd0J3W)
GCF affirms its commitment to Least Developed Countries
... Fund, in cooperation with the Government of Ethiopia and the Least Developed Countries' constituency under the ... in the LDCs. “This meeting was an opportunity to transform the strategic initiatives of LDCs into advanced actions through partnership and collaboration with ...
Article > Press release Ethiopia ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/article/image-header-closingsdldc2018.jpg?itok=aWbbAlQ6)
GCF Caribbean consultations chart paths to greater resilience
... opportunities to progress low-emission development pathways and climate change adaptation in the Caribbean. In addition ... to climate change, including support for climate information services and early warning systems. ... need support now to rebuild, and to take effective climate action.” This included the need for “a new generation of ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/article/image-fullbleed-caribbean.jpg?itok=5E-veFC0)
GCF and World Bank join forces to open new climate paths
The Green Climate Fund and the World Bank today signed a key agreement to support climate action in developing countries. The signing of an ... together to support innovative ideas that reduce emissions and better prepare communities for the impact of climate ...
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GCF doubles climate finance output, Board Co-Chairs report at UN Climate Conference
... of climate finance “translates to double the number, and more than double the amount of approved GCF funding ... for the implementation of ambitious, paradigm shifting action,” he stated. Mr Shasly explained that the GCF Board ... 2.65 billion in GCF funding for 54 climate change projects and programmes to be implemented in 73 developing countries. ...
Article > Press release ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/article/image-header-cop23cc.jpg?itok=BCQrRs3Z, /sites/default/files/styles/small/public/article/image-inline-cop23cc.jpg?itok=WR73ANQU)
GCF strengthens partnership with Inter-American Development Bank
... its inroads of climate finance into the Latin America and Caribbean region after the signing of a key agreement ... the IDB has been a key partner for the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region. During the period 2012 to 2016, ... has great potential in helping to forge global climate action. “GCF will certainly benefit from IDB’s ...
Article > Press release ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/article/image-header-idbama.jpg?itok=2oc1VAqJ)
France doubles its contribution to the Green Climate Fund
... impacts of climate change is everyone’s responsibility and that is why France, the United Kingdom and Germany have ... This signals the importance of the Fund to drive transformative outcomes for countries and communities in the ... directions of the Fund to respond to the urgency of climate action in developing countries. The second consultation ...
Article > Press release France ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/article/image-fullbleed-france-contribution.jpg?itok=x1udt1bq)
GCF second replenishment meeting reaches agreement on key decisions; selects Paris for Pledging Conference
Hosted by the Canadian Ministry of International Development and Global Affairs Canada, GCF’s second replenishment ... (GCF) replenishment in the context of urgent global climate action. The meeting was facilitated by Johannes Linn. The ... of the Independent Evaluation Unit’s Forward Looking Performance Review together with the Secretariat’s management ...
Article > Press release Canada ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/article/image-fullbleed-rc2.jpg?itok=xdRCQIVV)
Scaling-Up Resilience in Africa’s Great Green Wall (SURAGGWA)
... most extreme climate events on earth in the 20th century, and data from 1900 shows clear long-term climate change with ... a tendency towards higher temperatures, lower precipitation and increased frequency of extreme event stressors such as ... provided to Sahelian countries on the GGW especially the Action Against Desertification (AAD) project implemented by ...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries
GCF joins UN bodies to help entrepreneurs embrace climate technology
... the Technology Executive Committee ( TEC ) of the UNFCCC and the Climate Technology Centre and Network ( CTCN ), in a ... designed to support entrepreneurs progress their climate action ideas through various stages of concept design and ... data management are also improving the ability of climate information services and early warning systems to reduce the ...
Article > Press release Germany ![...](/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/article/image-header-tecdialogue.jpg?itok=b7iw4ExT, /sites/default/files/styles/small/public/article/image-inline-tecdialogue-1.jpg?itok=9P3_lZjV, /sites/default/files/styles/small/public/article/image-inline-tecdialogue-2.jpg?itok=7M5ZZ3ar, /sites/default/files/styles/small/public/article/image-inline-tecdialogue-3.jpg?itok=banWajcb)
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