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How can the Green Climate Fund initiate a paradigm shift?

5. June 2014 |

The objective of the Green Climate Fund is to achieve a paradigm shift towards low-carbon and climateresilient development pathways. This CDKN Policy Brief analyses how this requires ambition, in the design of funded activities and in the provision of financial... more
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GCF meeting in Korea: time to decide

16. May 2014 |

On Sunday, May 18th 2014 the 7th meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is starting in Songdo, South Korea, where the Secretariat of the GCF is based. This meeting may decide upon the future of the... more
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The UN Adaptation Fund: Securing funding, strengthening perspectives

12. May 2014 |

The temporary “rescue” of the Adaptation Fund (AF) was one of the few bright spots of the United Nations climate change conference in Warsaw. Developing countries and many representatives of non-governmental organizations argued for additional pledges from developed countries. The... more

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Post-Bali: It’s Crunch Time!

29. April 2014 |

The 6th meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) from February 19 – February 21, 2014 was meant to propel the new Fund toward full operationalization by year’s end. After Bali, however, this tightly timed goal is... more
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Pressure on GCF Board increases after Bali meeting makes few decisions

26. March 2014 |

— After only a handful of decisions at the last GCF Board meeting in Bali, the first one lead by the new German and Philippine co-chairs, the pressure on 24 Board members increases to deliver at the Board’s all important... more
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Crucial year for the GCF starts with Board meeting in Bali

13. February 2014 |

Germany as new GCF Board co-chair carries the responsibility for steering the GCF through a make-or break year so that the Fund can finalize its operational modalities and start receiving significant initial contributions – hopefully also from Germany — later... more

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Upping the Ante: The 5th Green Climate Fund Board Meeting speeds up the progress on the Fund’s Business Model and sets a time-line for its resource mobilization

3. December 2013 |

At its 5th meeting from October 7 – 10, 2013 in Paris, France, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) accelerated its decision-making on various operational policies under the Fund’s Business Model Framework (BMF) and set a time-line for... more
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Upping the Ante. The 5th Green Climate Fund Board Meeting speeds up progress on the Fund’s Business Model and sets a time-line for GCF resource mobilization :

13. November 2013 |

At its 5th meeting from October 7 – 10, 2013 in Paris, France, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) rose to the challenge that the Co-Chairs posed in presenting the 24-member group with a near “mission impossible” to... more
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Green Climate Fund: on the road to success in 2013?

20. March 2013 |

The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) gathered in Berlin on March 12-15 at the invitation of the German government for its third meeting. This was the first meeting since the 18th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha,... more

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Green Climate Fund: Timely action needs early pledges

5. November 2012 |

The discussion paper describes why financial pledges are crucial for early action – namely project financing – of the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Of course each country decides for itself when it perceives the structure of a fund sufficiently defined... more
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Regaining Momentum – The Green Climate Fund is preparing for its first board meeting in 2012

21. August 2012 |

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is to become the primary multilateral channel for large-scale financing for adaptation and mitigation action in developing countries. When the newly selected 24 members – 12 from developing, 12 from developed countries – of the... more
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The Adaptation Fund – more German leadership!

14. April 2012 |

With the recent conclusion of the 17th meeting of its Board, the Adaptation Fund has entered into its fifth year of operation. The meeting marked another step in capturing lessons learnt and further advancing the Fund´s provisions with regard to... more
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