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Summary Report of the 23rd Board Meeting of the Green Climate Fund – What went down and why it took longer than usual

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by Claire Miranda-Balba | info@gcfwatch.org Note: GCFWatch.org is maintained by the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities, with initial support from Heinrich Böll Foundation, Germanwatch, and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety. DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION HERE The Green Climate Fund (GCF) recently concluded its 23rd Board Meeting at its headquarters in Songdo,…

Engaging with the Green Climate Fund – A Civil Society Toolkit

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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was created to serve as one of the primary funding institutions of the international climate finance architecture under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement. Its overall goal is to promote the “paradigm shift towards low-emission and climate-resilient development pathways’’ by providing support to developing countries,…

The battle of reaching consensus and what we should be focusing on

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by Claire Miranda-Balba In view of the magnitude of climate change and the extensive work done over the years to address the crisis, it is distressing to know that these various international climate negotiations that we as Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have invested our time and efforts on, have shown very slow progress. Why? Because…

INSIDER: The Green Climate Fund’s Proposed Approach to Costs: Not Fit for Adaptation

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by Lauren Sidner and Niranjali Manel Amerasinghe As developing countries increasingly experience the impacts of climate change, ensuring that they have efficient access to adaptation funding is ever more urgent. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is one of the world’s largest sources of finance for climate adaptation, and importantly, most of its finance is concessional, meaning it…

CSOs lay Foundation for Malawi’s Readiness to Accessing and Managing Climate Funds

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By Julius Ng’oma and Joseph Njoka, CISONECC Climate financing is central in dealing with worsening impacts of climate change. National Governments and International financial institutions are developing policies and financial mechanisms to allocate and manage finances to support implementation of various policies and actions. The most recent financial mechanism set up under the United Nations…
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