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Yannick Glemarec takes up his post today as the new Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Selected by the GCF Board at its most recent meeting in February, the appointment of Mr Glemarec as head of the...

The Green Climate Fund's recent decision to pay Brazil USD 96.5 million for keeping Amazon forests standing in 2014 and 2015 shows the concept of REDD+ is starting to pay off for countries stepping up efforts to halt...

The Government of Mongolia launches the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process to strengthen climate-resilient development, with support from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and UN Environment.

Last week, the Government of Cook Islands announced its first Green Climate Fund country programme which captures the government’s strategy and approach towards dealing with climate threats. It also includes climate...

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...

The Green Climate Fund has published the revised timeline for its twenty-third Board meeting and the tentative timeline for its twenty-fourth Board meeting (B.23 and B.24, respectively) following the decision by the...

The 22nd meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board ended today, with a raft of decisions to strengthen GCF for its first replenishment. Following the selection of Yannick Glemarec as its new Executive Director at...

Government has launched the Building Capacity to Advance National Adaptation Planning Process, which is the country’s first project funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), a financial mechanism under The United Nations...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board is holding its first meeting of the year at the GCF headquarters of Songdo, Republic of Korea.The Board started with a short formal session on Monday 25 February where it announced the...

The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has selected Yannick Glemarec to be its new Executive Director. The Board made the merit-based selection decision at its 22nd meeting at the GCF headquarters in Songdo, Republic...

To support the first GCF formal replenishment, the Fund appointed Johannes F. Linn, a renowned development economist and practitioner, as a global facilitator to help oversee and streamline the replenishment process. Mr...

The Green Climate Fund has today announced the launch of a new partnership of climate experts. The new Communities of Practice (CoP) will tap the expertise of globally renowned organisations to deliver climate knowledge...

When Mr. Manzanares came into to the UN News studios, he said the Fund’s investment message is getting through to UN Member States. Conor Lennon started by asked him if he was, nevertheless, worried by some countries’...

On February 9, the meeting of the Committee of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change (CAHOSCC) took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The event was held at the margins of the 32nd Ordinary Session of the...

The Government of Lao PDR is leading the way to ensure complementarity and coherence in its programming plans for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), two global climate funds and the...

The Comoros faces a range of threats from climate change, including increased variability in rainfall levels, and consequent increased drought, flooding, and threats to the water supplies, for agriculture, drinking, and...

GCF Executive Director a.i., Javier Manzanares and Laura Tuck, World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development, met on Friday in Washington D.C. to strengthen the climate partnership between the two organisations...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has emphasised his support for an ambitious and successful Green Climate Fund replenishment during a meeting with GCF Executive Director ad interim Javier Manzanares. The meeting in...

XacBank has become Mongolia’s first private bank to fund the completion of a large-scale, solar plant in a financing partnership with the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The 10MWh solar photovoltaic (PV) plant, completed at...

The Green Climate Fund and Acumen have signed funding agreements which will open up new channels of climate finance to climate resilient agriculture projects in East and West Africa. GCF has committed USD 26 million to...

Indonesia's geothermal potential is estimated to be 29 GW, which is about 40 percent of the world's known reserves. Despite this potential, the country relies heavily on fossil fuel to meet its electricity demand. A key...

The Green Climate Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) recently signed funding agreements which will enable GCF to channel climate finance to 4 projects in Latin America. The following projects are now...

Nearly 1,100 storm-resilient houses were constructed in 2018 in seven provinces under the framework of the ‘Improving the resilience of vulnerable coastal communities to climate change–related impacts in Việt Nam’...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed an agreement to support the development of effective hydrological and meteorological data and information in Tajikistan. The signing of the...

This is the final GCF postcard from Katowice, but it may not be the final day of the COP. We are now into the waiting game, as negotiations continue to agree the Paris ‘rulebook’ and other texts, which includes the...

Rwandan farmers facing the increased likelihood of landslides, flooding and droughts from climate change will benefit from an agreement by the Green Climate Fund to begin transferring funds to Rwanda’s Ministry of...

The Green Climate Fund’s current replenishment drive received top-level support from developing and developed nations during the international climate change meeting in Poland. A number of government ministers...

Following recent announcements by Germany and Norway that they will double their commitment to the Fund, GCF’s COP24 side event yesterday helped to maintain this positive momentum, reviewing the achievements of the Fund...

The Green Climate Fund enhanced the ability of public and private project developers to invest in climate action today with its signing of an agreement with Moroccan-based CDG Capital. CDG Capital is a corporate and...

The Green Climate Fund signed a funding agreement with Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) today to make communities in northern Tanzania more resilient to water strains caused by climate change. The signing of the...