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What to watch for across the multilateral climate funds landscape: key moments and leverage points
… The multilateral climate funds are navigating a period of reflection and reform. Funds … Looking at the largest multilateral climate funds for adaptation and resilience delivery – particularly the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Adaptation Fund (AF), but also the Global Environment … Climate change … How can multilateral climate funds reach people that need it most? …
Insight, 25 March 2026
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Multilateral climate funds: three ways to step up for the world’s most vulnerable nations
… ‘ New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG') delivered at last year’s UN climate negotiations (COP29) set a goal of mobilising at least US$300 … meet the challenge. Among the major MCFs are the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Adaptation Fund (AF) − we focus on these here. While the … in building partnerships to deliver best practice adaptation and resilience projects, particularly through innovative, scalable and …
Insight, 28 October 2025
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Ambition to achieve gender balance at international climate negotiations must be matched with finance
… Climate change is a global crisis that disproportionately affects women … women must be recognised as agents of change in building climate resilience through gender-responsive climate planning and actions. … such as the Global Environment Facilty (GEF) and Green Climate Fund (GCF) . A GEF evaluation showed that although integrating gender equality …
Insight, 10 October 2023
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IIED at London Climate Action Week, June/July 2022
… London Climate Action Week (LCAW) is an annual event, founded in 2019, that … Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), Climate Justice Resilience Fund (CJRF), … adapt to climate change. Climate funds like the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are a crucial source of finance under the Paris Agreement, but the …
Event, 25 June 2022
Fisheries account for 12 per cent of The Gambia's GDP. The country's Atlantic coastline and the mangroves along the River Gambia estuary are vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Javier D. Creative Commons via Flickr)
GCF funding boosts ecosystem-based adaptation in The Gambia
… The Gambia is one of the countries in the world most vulnerable to climate change.  The combined effects of sea level rise, erosion of … EbA interventions have boosted farmer incomes and enhanced community resilience.  Accessing international climate finance The success of … recently secured a US$21 million grant from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for a large-scale EbA project that will operate in the Lower River, …
Insight, 22 June 2017
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Message to the Green Climate Fund board: step up finance access for the most vulnerable
… The GCF’s Enhanced Direct Access (EDA) modality seeks to boost climate finance access for Direct Access Entities (DAE) – sub-national, … management project in Namibia, approved in 2016, and a disaster resilience project in Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica and Grenada, … Climate change … Message to the Green Climate Fund board: step up finance access for the most vulnerable …
Insight, 12 March 2021
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The Green Climate Fund: time to shift focus to locally led adaptation
… This week, the board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) will meet to consider 15 funding proposals, totalling … organisations, and other local actors; and the ADB’s Community Resilience Partnership Programme  is seeking to support governments in … Climate change … The Green Climate Fund: time to shift focus to locally led adaptation …
Insight, 17 August 2020
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National Adaptation Plans: LDCs need financing to turn words into reality
… To support countries in building resilience to the worsening impacts of climate change the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, back in … it applied for and received a grant from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Readiness Programme  − a programme designed to provide up to US$3 … Climate change …
Insight, 24 April 2023
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Three things climate funds can learn from the COVID-19 response
… For countries already grappling with the impacts of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown how global shocks and … than ever, money from key funders such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF) must reach vulnerable communities in these countries; now, more … of climate vulnerable countries and help build their long-term resilience. And by recognising multidimensional risk, climate funds can …
Insight, 25 June 2020
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Comment and Analysis: Initial Results Management Framework of the GCF
… Ultimately the GCF is intended to promote the paradigm shift towards low emission and climate-resilient development pathways by providing support to … is also designed to reflect a compromise between the complexity of projects/programmes, and the limited capacity of many countries to … Climate change … Comment and Analysis: Initial Results Management Framework of the GCF …
Publication, 01 May 2014