Climate change is not only one of the greatest environmental and development challenges facing the world today, it is one that will have critical impacts on human rights and inequalities, including gender inequality.It is therefore deeply appropriate for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and UN Women to have collaborated in developing Mainstreaming Gender in Green…

Technology solutions and innovations are instrumental to facilitate the move towards low-emission and climateresilient pathways. Climate technologies can cover sectors such as energy supply and distribution, industry, transport, waste and agriculture. They can help adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change, for instance, through the deployment of early warning systems or drought-resistant crops, or…

The Green Climate Fund is committed to investing in developing countries’ efforts to adapt to the effects of climate change. GCF aims to deliver a 50:50 balance between mitigation and adaptation allocations in its portfolio, and ensure that at least 50 percent of adaptation funding goes to particularly vulnerable countries, including LDCs, SIDS and African States.

Environmental and social screening is an essential and primary step in the assessment of environmental and social risks and impacts of activities1 proposed for GCF financing. The results of the screening form the basis of the accredited entities for assigning the environmental and social risk category of activities and informs decisions on the extent and…