Green Climate Fund Project Toolkit 2017

This toolkit is featured with permission from Acclimatise.

Responding to the climate challenge requires collective action from all countries, cities, businesses, and private citizens. With currently USD $10.3 billion pledged, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), is the world’s largest climate fund and is designed to be the main financial instrument to meet the global commitment made by advanced economies to jointly mobilise $100 billion per year by 2020, from a variety of sources, to address the pressing mitigation and adaptation needs of developing countries.

The GCF aims to support developing countries in achieving a paradigm shift to low-emission pathways and to increase climate-resilient development, by funding transformative projects and programmes on adaptation and/or mitigation to climate change. This toolkit aims to help private sector entities understand the key considerations to take into account and fulfil the GCF’s requirements when developing funding proposals.

Preparing a GCF’s funding proposal requires considerable research, consultation, and thought regarding the design and costing. The funding proposal template includes the following sections:

A private sector organisation can submit - through an Accredited Entity - funding proposals to the GCF spontaneously on an ongoing basis or by responding to a request for proposals (RFP) published on the GCF website. Funding proposals submitted to the GCF should include a no-objection letter signed by the National Designated Authority.