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The Project Preparation Facility (PPF) has disbursed and committed USD 32.8 million (82% of its USD 40 million allocation) to support the development of climate funding proposals. To date, PPF support has enabled 11 approved funding proposals totaling nearly USD 3.0 billion in investment. The Secretariat has reduced processing times by 84% through streamlined approvals and introduced simplified funding and service modalities to better support direct access entities (DAEs). To cover a pipeline of 28 active requests and anticipated new needs, the document requests an additional USD 18.0 million for the remainder of GCF-1.

The Green Climate Fund's overall pipeline as of April 2022 consists of 438 projects with a total value of $74,879M. The pipeline is divided between the Public Sector (DMA) and Private Sector (PSF), with the highest total values concentrated in the Asia-Pacific and Africa regions. Projects are categorised by themes including adaptation, mitigation, and cross-cutting, with cross-cutting projects representing the largest total value at $44,589M. The report further details funding proposals and concept notes, including their financial instruments and impact potential.

The GCF's private sector strategy aims to mobilize institutional finance and private capital for climate adaptation and mitigation in developing countries through a four-pronged approach: promoting conducive investment environments, accelerating innovation, de-risking market-creating investments, and strengthening domestic financial institutions. The report reviews the PSF's performance, noting a co-financing ratio of 3.25:1 and a heavy initial reliance on concessional loans. To meet its updated Strategic Plan targets, the GCF proposes expanding its use of equity and guarantees, improving the accreditation process via a project-specific assessment approach, and implementing a private sector outreach plan.

The report assesses the GCF's network of 113 accredited entities (AEs), evaluating their capacity to deliver on the Fund's strategic priorities. While the network is diverse and expanding—particularly in private sector and direct access entities—significant gaps remain in the ability of direct access entities (DAEs) to manage high environmental and social (E&S) risk projects and large-scale adaptation programming. The analysis highlights a low AE-to-project ratio, which may disincentivize institutional capacity building, and notes that GCF's internal processing capacity is currently insufficient to meet the growing volume of new and re-accreditation applications.

The report details the Green Climate Fund's pipeline, which consists of 433 total projects with a combined value of $75,379M (including co-financing). The pipeline is divided into funding proposals and concept notes, with significant allocations across Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on adaptation, mitigation, and cross-cutting themes.

The report finds that climate finance for AFOLU sectors is severely underfunded, representing only 2.5% of total tracked climate finance in 2019/20. While overall trends were positive between 2013 and 2020, a 20% drop occurred between 2017/18 and 2019/20. The sectors require an estimated USD 423.4 billion annually by 2030 to align with the Paris Agreement, a nearly 26-fold increase over 2019/20 levels. Finance is dominated by public sources, with significant gaps in private investment and a stagnation in adaptation funding. Geographically, East Asia and the Pacific are the primary recipients, followed by Sub-Saharan Africa.

The document analyzes the instrumental use of referendums in Romania, focusing on the 2018 vote to redefine marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Although the referendum failed due to low turnout (21%), it provided a platform for far-right rhetoric and contributed to the rise of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), which entered Parliament in 2020 with 9% of the vote.

The briefing argues that financial institutions must move beyond vague requests and implement strict, time-bound criteria to ensure coal companies genuinely phase out thermal coal. It establishes immediate thresholds for stopping financing to coal majors and outlines ten requirements for credible phase-out plans, including specific closure dates, prohibitions on selling plants or converting them to other fossil fuels, and the requirement for just transition plans.

The document argues that to meet the 1.5°C climate goal, new coal infrastructure must stop immediately and most existing plants must be retired by 2030. It provides a framework for financial institutions to assess corporate coal exit plans, emphasizing that credible plans must include facility-by-facility closure dates, a prohibition on selling assets to new owners, and a ban on converting plants to other fossil fuels or biomass. The briefing also highlights the necessity of funded just transition plans and the cessation of anti-climate lobbying and legal challenges via investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms.

The document argues that to meet the 1.5°C climate goal, the global coal industry must be phased out rapidly, with 80% of the global fleet and all facilities in the OECD, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union closed by 2030. It provides financial institutions with a ten-point framework to assess corporate phase-out plans, emphasizing that plans must include facility-by-facility closure dates, prohibit the sale of assets to new owners, and forbid conversion to fossil gas, biomass, or fossil-based hydrogen. The briefing also warns against using carbon capture and storage (CCS) or Science-Based Targets (SBTi) as substitutes for concrete closure plans and insists on funded just transition roadmaps and the cessation of anti-climate lobbying and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) claims.

The report reviews the GCF's country ownership framework, finding that while National Designated Authorities (NDAs) are recognized as leaders, they often lack the capacity for inclusive stakeholder coordination and monitoring and evaluation (M&E). It highlights the importance of Country Programmes (CPs) and the role of Direct Access Entities (DAEs), while noting challenges in private sector engagement and long proposal approval timelines. Drawing on best practices from organizations like the Global Fund (GFATM) and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), the report recommends establishing formal country coordination platforms, accelerating DAE accreditation, and improving accountability through mandatory sharing of Annual Progress Reports (APRs) with NDAs.

As of 31 July 2021, the GCF pipeline includes 89 funding proposals requesting USD 6.4 billion and 350 concept notes requesting USD 15.9 billion. The report details the distribution of these requests by sector, region, and theme, while also tracking the progress of the Simplified Approval Process (SAP) pilot, specific requests for proposals (RFPs) such as REDD-plus and MSME, and the status of 65 active Project Preparation Facility applications.

The report details the Green Climate Fund (GCF) pipeline, which consists of 467 total projects with a combined total value of $82,847M (including co-financing). The pipeline is divided into funding proposals and concept notes, with significant concentrations in mitigation and adaptation across Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Green Climate Fund's January 2021 pipeline consists of 459 projects with a total value of $81,138M, including GCF funding and co-financing. The pipeline is divided between the Public Sector (DMA) and Private Sector (PSF), with significant concentrations in Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. Projects are categorized by themes of adaptation, mitigation, and cross-cutting activities, with the majority of funding flowing through the Proposal Approval Process rather than the Simplified Approval Process. The report further segments these figures into 'Funding Proposals' and 'Concept Notes', providing granular data on financial instruments, impact potential, and specific allocations for Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and Africa.

The report uses a case study of 62 South African pasture-based dairy farms to argue that sustainable management practices lead to higher gross margins and lower environmental impacts. Key findings indicate that optimizing milk production relative to cow size and land area, rather than maximizing production per cow, reduces carbon footprints and increases profitability. The study highlights a strong negative correlation between soil carbon and nitrogen fertiliser application, suggesting that healthy soils reduce the need for chemical inputs. Projections suggest that widespread adoption of these practices in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal could reduce total carbon emissions by 10% and excess nitrogen by 27% over five years.

The Green Climate Fund's overall pipeline as of July 2020 consists of 438 projects with a total value of $69,258M, including $20,392M in GCF funding and $48,866M in co-financing. The pipeline is divided between the Public Sector (DMA) and Private Sector (PSF), with the majority of projects and funding allocated to the Public Sector. Geographically, Asia-Pacific holds the highest total project value at $28,227M, followed by Africa at $23,453M. Thematically, cross-cutting projects represent the largest number of projects (200), while mitigation projects have the highest total value ($27,147M). The pipeline is further split into funding proposals (109 projects) and concept notes (329 projects).

The report details the Green Climate Fund's overall pipeline of 382 projects with a total value of $55.163 billion. It breaks down these figures by sector (Public and Private), region, and theme, while specifically analyzing the subsets of 'Funding Proposals' and 'Concept Notes'.

The report details the Green Climate Fund's overall pipeline of 349 projects with a total value of $52,189M (including co-financing). It breaks down these figures across public and private sector divisions, geographic regions, and thematic areas such as adaptation and mitigation. The pipeline is further divided into funding proposals (80 projects) and concept notes (269 projects), with specific data on financial instruments, approval modalities, and impact potential for funding proposals.

The report details the Green Climate Fund's pipeline as of June 2019, covering 349 overall projects with a total value of $53,465M. This includes 87 funding proposals valued at $14,309M and 262 concept notes valued at $39,156M. The pipeline is categorized by division (Public and Private Sector), region, theme (Adaptation, Mitigation, and Cross-cutting), and approval process.

As of 30 June 2019, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) reports that portfolio concentration and liquidity remain within approved risk tolerance levels, with no non-performing loans for eight consecutive quarters. The portfolio consists of 101 approved funding proposals totaling USD 4.97 billion equivalent, with a distribution of 44% mitigation, 22% adaptation, and 13% cross-cutting projects. Geographically, Africa holds the largest share of approved funding at 43%, followed by Asia-Pacific at 31%. The fund maintains a foreign exchange commitment risk buffer of USD 46.6 million equivalent.