Green Climate Fund country programme for Equatorial Guinea

The Green Climate Fund country programme for Equatorial Guinea establishes a flexible framework for climate action, identifying key vulnerabilities in agriculture, energy, and forestry. It details a portfolio of seven priority projects—ranging from natural gas public transport to mangrove restoration—designed to prompt a national paradigm shift toward a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy. The document emphasizes the need for international financing, as the country cannot fund this transition independently, and highlights the critical role of gender mainstreaming in climate resilience.

• Equatorial Guinea's economy is heavily dependent on hydrocarbons, which account for more than 70 percent of GDP, almost all exports, and between 85 and 98 percent of state revenues.
• The country's greenhouse gas emission profile is dominated by carbon dioxide, which represents 98 percent of emissions, followed by methane at 1.98 percent and nitrous oxide at 0.02 percent.
• The energy sector is highly dependent on fossil fuels; as of June 2018, non-renewable sources provided 267,604 MW of the total 394,718 MW installed power capacity, primarily from diesel-fired plants.
• Tropical forests cover 93 percent of the land area, providing a significant opportunity for global climate mitigation through the REDD+ strategy.
• Women are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change due to their high reliance on natural resources and limited access to land, credit, and information, despite representing 80 percent of the workforce in subsistence farming.
• The government has set a goal to reduce emissions by 20 percent compared to 2010 levels before 2030, and 50 percent by 2050, though this is contingent on international technical and financial support.
• Equatorial Guinea cannot independently finance its transition to a low-carbon economy and requires a combination of international, national, public, and private funding sources.
• A priority project for urban transport aims to replace obsolete vehicles with 302 liquefied natural gas buses to reduce annual emissions by 16,792 t of CO2eq, with a total estimated cost of USD 64,770,578.49.
• Forestry management goals include the sustainable management of 1,307,692 ha of forest to capture 17,000,000 t of CO2eq per year.
• The country identifies critical cross-cutting needs in institutional capacity, including the need to raise climate change to the State Secretariat level and establish a national climate change committee.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2019). Green Climate Fund country programme for Equatorial Guinea. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/equatorial-guinea-country-programme.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Green Climate Fund country programme for Equatorial Guinea. 2019. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/equatorial-guinea-country-programme.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2019green, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Green Climate Fund country programme for Equatorial Guinea}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2019}, month = oct, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/equatorial-guinea-country-programme.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }