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USD 200 million pilot of additional modalities to enhance direct access under GCF
The Green Climate Fund has announced a pilot to strengthen countries’ decision-making authority over resources dedicated to supporting their climate change projects and programmes.
The pilot phase for additional...
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GCF Board convenes for thirteenth meeting
Green Climate Fund Board Members, Alternate Members and observers have gathered for their thirteenth meeting, which runs from 28-30 June at GCF Headquarters in Songdo, Republic of Korea.
GCF Co-Chairs Zaheer Fakir (...
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Co-Chairs’ expectations for the 13th meeting of the GCF Board
The thirteenth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund (B.13) will be held in Songdo, Republic of Korea, from 28 to 30 June 2016.
B.13 shifts the focus from operational essentials to the GCF's core business of...
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New web features bring partners and projects in focus
The GCF website has received several significant updates to make its online presence more interactive.
The Fund's Portfolio overview showcases GCF's projects by geographic and programmatic distribution, as well as the...
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Expanding GCF’s reach in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
On the sidelines of the Eighth Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference in Batumi, Georgia, country representatives from Eastern Europe and Central Asia participated in a Green Climate Fund (GCF) briefing to...
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Acumen Fund formalises relationship with GCF, its partner for East African distributed solar power
Acumen Fund, Inc., the not-for-profit global investment fund, has become the first GCF private sector accredited entity to formalise its relationship with the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Acumen Fund has signed an...
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GCF introduces live web-streaming of Board meetings
The upcoming 13th meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board will be live web-cast to enable the broader GCF stakeholder community to follow the deliberations of the sessions.
The live web-casting will make it...
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Stepping up climate action in the Cook Islands
Government, community, civil society and private sector representatives from the Cook Islands have come up with initial project ideas for what might populate their country programme to tackle climate change—supported by...
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Board prepares to consider eight new public sector project proposals as GCF pipeline grows
Eight new public sector project proposals have been published ahead of the Board’s thirteenth meeting later this month. The proposals amount to a total request for investment of USD 208 million from the Fund. They will...
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World Meteorological Organization first UN agency to formalize relationship with GCF
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United Nations’ authority on the state of the planet’s atmosphere and climate, has become the first UN specialized agency to formalize its relationship with the Green...
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Harnessing climate science to guide climate investments
During a visit to the headquarters of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Mr. Hoesung Lee, underscored the urgency in strengthening the connection between the...
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GCF encourages more high-quality and ambitious proposals
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has articulated its post-Paris vision, highlighting the need for high-quality, ambitious funding proposals to scale up action under the Fund and incite the necessary paradigm shift.
At a...
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GCF direct access week puts countries’ climate actions in the fast lane
The Green Climate Fund concluded its first "Readiness Week" to assist direct access entities in developing their project ideas. The week-long event brought together the 13 organizations that have been accredited for...
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Women key agents for tackling climate change
GCF’s direct access country partners take part in UN Women training session on women’s empowerment to scale up climate action
The “why” and “how” of mainstreaming women’s empowerment in the context of climate change...
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GCF Executive Director highlights urgency of climate action as Heads of State sign Paris Agreement
Speaking at United Nations Headquarters in New York on the occasion of the Paris Agreement and Earth Day, GCF Executive Director Héla Cheikhrouhou today called for urgent action to drive low-emission, climate-resilient...
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How the Maldives are putting climate funds to work
Funadhoo is the site of one of the first projects to be financed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the United Nations’ primary institution for supporting emission cutting investments, such as in renewable energy and...
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GCF readiness week to focus on accelerating countries’ direct access to the Fund’s resources
Ramping up support to country partners in developing projects and programmes for consideration by the GCF Board will be the focus of a “readiness week” that GCF is organizing from 25 to 29 April at its headquarters in...
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Green Climate Fund vows to up its game
“This year will be important for demonstrating that the GCF can fund transformational actions in developing countries,” says Niranjali Amerasinghe, who studies climate finance at the World Resources Institute in...
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Head of GCF addresses Asia-Pacific leaders: ‘Climate change action is an enabler of the SDGs’
The Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund, Héla Cheikhrouhou, today presented leaders from the Asia-Pacific region with the work of GCF to support opportunities for low-emission, climate-resilient development in...
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GCF Board closes key policy gaps as project pipeline reaches $1.5 billion
The Board of the Green Climate Fund has taken a series of policy decisions designed to strengthen its partnerships and grow its project pipeline in 2016. The decisions, taken at the Board’s twelfth meeting (B.12),...
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Green Climate Fund clears way for $2.5 bln funding challenge
The Green Climate Fund made progress in closing administrative and policy gaps at a meeting in South Korea this week, and now faces the uphill task of allocating $2.5 billion this year for projects to tackle climate...
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Forum Secretary General congratulates Cook Islands on Readiness GCF Grant
Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General, Dame Meg Taylor has congratulated the Government of Cook Islands on becoming the first Forum Island Country, and the first Small Island Developing State (SIDS), to receive a...
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Co-Chairs' expectations for the twelfth meeting of the Board
Board members and alternates from 37 countries have arrived in Songdo, Republic of Korea, for the twelfth meeting of the Board (B.12) of the Green Climate Fund, from 8 to 10 March 2016.
Co-Chairs Zaheer Fakir (South...
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Cook Islands become first Pacific state to receive GCF readiness funding
The Cook Islands have received financial resources from the Green Climate Fund to strengthen their capacity to access finance through GCF. With this disbursement, Cook Islands are the first country in the Pacific region...
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Héla Cheikhrouhou to leave GCF after her three years as Executive Director
The Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund, Ms. Héla Cheikhrouhou announced today she will step down in September 2016, at the end of her current term as head of the Fund.
Ms. Cheikhrouhou was appointed by GCF's...
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Sweden deepens ties with GCF as Parliamentarians visit the Fund
Sweden has been one of the strongest supporters of the Green Climate Fund, so it was with great pleasure that Executive Director Héla Cheikhrouhou today welcomed a visit to the Fund’s Headquarters in Songdo by a...
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GCF Board meets in Cape Town for informal dialogue
The Green Climate Fund Board is meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, from 2 to 4 February for an informal dialogue on the Fund’s expectations for 2016 and key operational issues.
The Cape Town dialogue, under the...
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Season’s Greetings from GCF
As we reach the end of 2015 I would like to send you best wishes and season's greetings from the Green Climate Fund Secretariat.
2015 has been a groundbreaking year for the Fund. After the successful resource...
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Brussels Capital Region pledges €500,000 to GCF
Ms. Céline Fremault, Minister of Environment of the Brussels Capital Region, pledged EUR 500,000 to the Green Climate Fund today.
"Climate financing is a fundamental element for reaching an ambitious agreement,” stated...
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France and Canada convert their pledges into usable resources for GCF
The governments of France and Canada today signed agreements with the Green Climate Fund to convert their pledges into contributions. France has converted its remaining pledge of EUR 342 million, bringing its total...
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