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Green Climate Fund (GCF)

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Woman waters field with a hose.

The Green Climate Fund: time to shift focus to locally led adaptation

Insight, 17 August 2020

The UN Climate Action Summit

Real climate ambition means switching to 'business unusual'

Insight, 04 October 2019

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

Insight, 22 June 2017

Local community-based funds can help farmers in climate-sensitive areas to diversify. Mercyline Atieno got a loan for her poultry business in Kenya (Photo: T.Muchaba/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Now is the time to ensure GCF finance reaches the local level

Insight, 03 April 2017

Diagram showing the traditional channels for delivering aid (Image: IIED)

Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement

Article, 25 January 2017

Construction of a dam and hydropower plant on the Konkouré River at Kaléta in Guinea. The new plant came on line in September 2015 (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)

Should the Green Climate Fund flow to hydropower?

Insight, 31 October 2016

A farmer in Tattaguine, Senegal benefits from an irrigation project. IIED is advocating for the Green Climate Fund to speed up the process of getting finance to local levels, those who need it most (Photo: Ryan Kendrick Smith, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Q&A: a message to the Green Climate Fund board

Article, 10 October 2016

Learning route participants interact with local communities in Isiolo, Kenya (Photo: Timothy Mwaura/CGIAR)

Seven ways to build resilient local economies in fragile contexts

Insight, 24 August 2016

Chart showing decentralised energy access – finance needed and contribution of climate finance (Image: Sarah Best/IIED)

The Green Climate Fund: will the vulnerable be overlooked in a rush to spend?

Insight, 24 June 2016

Officials on a climate finance course meet farmers in Bangladesh to learn about the benefits of solar irrigation pumps (Photo: ICCCAD, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Climate finance for those who need it most

Article, 13 May 2016

On a field trip to Dhamrai, course participants learned about the typical costs for installing and operating solar irrigation pumps to provide off-grid irrigation. (Photo: ICCCAD, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Enabling developing countries to effectively manage climate finance

News, 13 May 2016

An image showing a group of women from Tongaradha village, Bangladesh, who saved more than 2,000 hectares of land and 500 households from flooding by rebuilding a 12km embankment and a 5km road. GCF money should be used for such innovative, community-driven projects in poor countries that will drive long-term change (Photo: WFP/Rein Skullerud, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Expediting direct access to the GCF for least developed countries

Insight, 09 May 2016

The event was held in the Africa pavilion at the Paris climate summit (Photo: IIED)

COP21 side event discusses how to unlock climate finance for developing countries

News, 02 December 2015

People use the pavement on Boulevard Richard Lenoir, close to the Bataclan concert venue which was the focus of the Paris attacks on 13 November, 2015, to share messages of support, and hope (Photo: Gael_Lombart, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

French lead drive for global climate agreement

Insight, 17 November 2015

This sewage treatment plant in Delawas, Jaipur, was funded by the Asian Development Bank. There are concerns omitting local people from decision-making processes can lead to climate funds not sufficiently representing local priorities (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Getting Green Climate Funding to the local level

Insight, 28 October 2015

Tea pickers in Kenya's Mount Kenya region; smallholder folders in Least Developed Countries would be adversely affected by climate change (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Supporting the LDCs on climate change adaptation

Insight, 01 September 2015

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) of Bangladesh won the Earth Care Award 2012 for spearheading the Least Developed Countries Fund project 'Community-based adaptation to climate change through coastal afforestation in Bangladesh' (Photo: UNDP Adaptation Learning Mechanism)

Making the climate fund fit for purpose

Insight, 27 August 2015

Three girls wash their clothes in the Akaki river, near Addis Ababa. Climate change is affecting the quality of water in Ethiopia and much of the wastewater released by the industries and houses in Addis Ababa reaches the Awash River untreated, putting public health at risk (Photo: Beatrice Mosello/ODI, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Will new development banks help or hinder on climate change?

Insight, 06 July 2015

Vanuatu is one of the Least Developed Countries, and is increasingly affected by climate change. Here local people are constructing a river crossing using rocks and coral after flooding destroyed a bridge (Photo: 350.org, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Financing climate change adaptation in LDCs

Insight, 22 April 2015

IIED director Camilla Toulmin enjoys the 12th D&C Days event at COP20 in Lima, Peru (Photo; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)

Zero-zero, dolphins and conversations for change

Insight, 11 December 2014

A view from Australia as the moon blocks out the sun in 2002. Now, Australia's decision to pledge $166 million USD to the Green Climate Fund means light is again on the horizon (Photo: NASA/ESA)

Will climate pledge lead to Australia 'keeping coal in the hole'?

News, 10 December 2014

Pa Ousman Jarju, the first Special Climate Envoy to be appointed from a Least Developed Country (Photo: IISD)

Q&A: Why is the Green Climate Fund's pledging meeting important?

Article, 18 November 2014

A maize farmer near Alauca, Honduras, takes a break from digging irrigation channels. Climate change in the form of higher temperatures and less rain is expected to have a big impact on Central American crops and farmers, and decision-makers need information on climate change adaptation (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT via Creative Commons)

Will divisions in the board delay the Green Climate Fund?

Insight, 18 November 2014

The island state of Tuvalu is profoundly threatened by climate change. Tuvalu’s Prime Minister announced plans to switch to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2020. He was one of several LDC leaders to announce climate action. (Photo: Tomoaki Inaba)

Bold climate pledges from the Least Developed Countries

Insight, 28 September 2014

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