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GCF agreement set to spur Moroccan green growth
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...
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GCF joins German development bank to make Tanzania more climate resilient
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...
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Postcard from Katowice: Wednesday, December 12
The GCF high level side event today featured calls to action from developing countries, and encouragement to greater ambition for the GCF replenishment from Germany and Norway in particular. GCF's second official side...
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GCF Brings Clean Energy to Off-Grid Areas of Burkina Faso
Due to Burkina Faso’s dependence on fossil fuels, the country has one of the highest electricity tariff rates in West Africa. Moreover, only 3 percent of its rural areas are electrified. In 2017, the Government of...
Article > Press release Burkina Faso
Postcard from Katowice: Tuesday, December 11
Tuesday was another busy day inside and outside the GCF pavilion with events on climate resilience, and climate rationale as well as negotiations, signings and lots of meetings. Tomorrow promises to be even busier,...
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GCF and WMO agree to strengthen science in climate response
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) have signed an agreement to leverage WMO expertise in weather, climate and water to increase the effectiveness of GCF-financed activities....
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Postcard from Katowice: Monday, December 10
It’s all about the finance! That was the plea from NGOs this morning at COP24, ahead of the high level Ministerial dialogue on climate finance.
Many delegates here are focusing on this issue, and GCF offered its vision...
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Postcard from Katowice: Saturday, December 8
The weekend may have arrived, but negotiations continued throughout Saturday in Katowice. Progress is being made, but not quickly enough to achieve the Presidency's goal of closing all the 'non-Paris Agreement' items by...
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Postcard from Katowice: Friday, December 7
GCF has a strong focus on the role of the private sector today in Katowice.Colleagues from GCF's Private Sector Facility led an event on Green Banking, before signing a private sector project agreement that will bring...
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Agreement set to increase India's rooftop solar reach
The spread of solar energy across India received a further boost today with the signing of an agreement between the Green Climate Fund and India’s National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
The...
Article > Press release India
Postcard from Katowice: Thursday, December 6
As we approach the end of the first week of the COP, negotiating texts are starting to be slimmed down, reducing in size and removing the numerous brackets that surround alternative proposals.
On climate finance, there...
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GCF funding agreement with Namibia first under new simplified approach
A recently signed implementation agreement opens up Green Climate Fund (GCF) finances to boost the climate resilience of Namibian farmers in GCF’s first project approved under its Simplified Approval Process (SAP)....
Article > Press release Namibia
Postcard from Katowice: Wednesday, December 5
The GCF pavilion has been busy today, and the Fund also hosted its first official side event of COP24. But these events are only part of the reason that GCF is in Poland, so today's Postcard from Katowice will try to...
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Postcard from Katowice: Tuesday, December 4
After David Attenborourgh, broadcaster and natural historian, warned COP yesterday of the collapse of civilization if we don’t act on climate change, the climate conference is focusing on different areas for action....
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GCF affirms its commitment to Least Developed Countries
On 19 – 22 November, the Green Climate Fund, in cooperation with the Government of Ethiopia and the Least Developed Countries' constituency under the UNFCCC, held the Structured Dialogue with Least Developed Countries (...
Article > Press release Ethiopia
GCF support for adaptation planning helps developing countries build the case for increased action and investment
The first GCF Adaptation Rationale workshop took place in Cebu, Philippines on 14-16 November 2018. The event strengthened the expertise of countries and Direct Access Entities (DAEs) in developing adaptation project...
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GCF supporting energy transformation in SIDS
Tonga, a Small Island Developing State in the Asia-Pacific region, is highly vulnerable to climate change. Despite having a huge potential for renewable energy, particularly from solar and wind, several technical and...
Article > Press release Tonga
GCF affirms partnership with the Caribbean Development Bank
The Green Climate Fund and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) signed a legal agreement to open doors for more climate finance projects in the Caribbean region.
The signing of the Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA)...
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Grenada PM calls for decisive climate action at GCF Structured Dialogue with the Caribbean
At the second GCF Structured Dialogue with the Caribbean, the Prime Minister Keith Mitchell of Grenada called on participants from the region to work together to address the risks of climate change and called for this...
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GCF signs off funding for Barbados water sector resilience project
On 1 November, GCF and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) signed the Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) for the project Water Sector Resilience Nexus for Sustainability in Barbados (WSRN S-Barbados)....
Article > Press release Barbados
Green Climate Fund invests USD 1 billion for developing country climate action, launches first replenishment
The 21st meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board ended today in Bahrain, approving over one billion dollars of new projects and programmes to support climate action in developing countries, and formally launching...
Article > Press release Bahrain
GCF strengthens partnership with FMO to combat climate change
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has today signed an agreement with Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V. (FMO) that will enable FMO to implement GCF funded low-emission and climate-resilient...
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Climate finance drives down renewable price in Egypt by half
A timely Green Climate Fund (GCF) investment has helped halve the cost of producing renewable energy in Egypt by using new ways to capture private finance flows.
GCF has been working with the European Bank for...
Article > Press release Egypt
GCF Board to open Bahrain meeting
Last Board meeting before COP24 will consider new funding and accreditation proposals, with policies, replenishment and evaluation of readiness programme also on agenda
The Green Climate Fund Board opens its twenty-...
Article > Press release Bahrain
Reframing development goals to catalyze climate finance
To expand the impact of GCF-funding and empower locally driven climate actions, a pioneering collaboration between the Government of Germany, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UN Environment and the World...
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Climate costs will rise sharply if we miss 1.5 degree target, GCF conference hears
Climate finance is a moral obligation, while inadequate action leading to global temperatures over 1.5 degrees Celsius will come with a heavy price.
These were some of the messages shaping discussions at a key Green...
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GCF’s first private sector conference boosts business role in climate finance
The Green Climate Fund will strive to drive momentum from its first conference focusing on the private sector to capitalise on business networks to unleash the trillions of dollars needed for climate finance.
GCF’s...
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GCF sets the tentative funding proposal schedule for B.22
The Green Climate Fund has set the tentative timeline for its twenty-second Board meeting. The timeline lists key dates leading to the Board meeting, where the 24 Board members decide on funding proposals brought...
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GCF targets private investment shift at inaugural climate conference
The Green Climate Fund’s first conference focusing exclusively on the private sector opens today in Incheon, the Republic of Korea.
The two-day Private Investment for Climate Conference addresses the need to capture...
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Green Climate Fund pledges ambitious response to IPCC alarm bell
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is working with developing countries to drive urgent action in response to the latest IPCC report on the science of climate change.
Thelma Krug, IPCC Vice-Chair, warned of the dangers of a...
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