News • November 15, 2019
UGANDA ON TRACK WITH IMPLEMENTATION OF ITS GCF READINESS PROJECT
A Team of 12 Ugandan senior officials from the National Designated Agency and the Inter-Ministerial Standing Committee were dispatched in Ethiopia for week-long learning sessions on “Strengthening the role of the Government of Uganda in mobilizing Green Climate Finance resources”. The roles & responsibilities of the Climate Change Finance Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee are to strengthen […]
News • November 11, 2019
City Leaders and Stakeholders Convene in Pakse to Discuss Climate Change and Urban Development in Lao PDR
Pakse, Lao PDR, November 1, 2019 – On the heels of large-scale flooding that hit several cities in Laos, including Pakse, the Department of Climate Change (DCC) of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), and ICLEI gathered city leaders and stakeholders to discuss the importance of climate change […]
News • November 5, 2019
GCF Concept Note Writing Workshop
GGGI supported the Fiscal Policy Agency (FPA) of the Ministry of Finance as Indonesia’s National Designated Authority for the Green Climate Fund (NDA-GCF) to organize a GCF Concept Note Writing Workshop on October 22-24, 2019 at Gran Melia Jakarta as part of the effort to expand and strengthen Indonesia’s GCF pipeline through the publication of […]
News • June 14, 2019
Burkina Faso Minister of Environment ,Green Economy and Climate Change conduct GCF study tour in Kigali, Rwanda
Burkina Faso is aware of the importance of green growth development which is fundamental to supporting the transition and increasing opportunities. The Government has highlighted several obstacles related to (i) limited technical capacity of actors at all levels; (ii) the lack of sustainable and appropriate financial mechanisms to support the transition to green growth; and […]
News • April 29, 2019
Mainstreaming Gender Perspective in Climate Change Programs
Gender and climate change have been the main issues in development, but the mention of both issues at the same place and at the same time is still uncommon. While the Government of Indonesia has put efforts to address these issues, their integration has not been progressing well as the entities responsible for the issues […]
News • February 6, 2019
GoI Strengthens Climate Funding from International Donors
Natural disasters have recently intensified in Indonesia. One of the main causes is climate change that has continued to affect the country in the past few years. Acting on this issue, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) facilitated the Fiscal Policy Agency (FPA) to hold a multi-stakeholder forum titled “Green Climate Fund Country Programme for […]
News • April 6, 2018
GGGI contributes to First-Ever Private Sector Climate Finance Tradeshow in Vanuatu
GGGI was the main sponsor among other regional and international development agencies to host and share climate finance experiences with private sector and industry representatives at the recent Climate Finance Tradeshow in Vanuatu. The two-day event (4th and 5th April 2018) was held at the Le Lagoon Warwick Hotel and was well attended by more […]
News • March 11, 2018
Rwanda receives $600,000 grant from Green Climate Fund to implement Green Development Projects in Secondary Cities
Read the press release by the Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA). The Government of Rwanda, through the Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA), has received a grant of $600,000 from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to support implementation of key climate change frameworks including the country’s Green Growth and Climate Resilient Strategy. The “Readiness and preparatory […]