When the U.N. created the fund in 2010, it was with the hope of stopping global warming from surpassing 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. The goal is to raise enough money from ...

“The Green Climate Fund is struggling with an identity crisis,” says Athena Ballesteros, director of the finance center with the World Resources Institute, who has followed the GCF closely. Because ...

The Green Climate Fund is part of the pledge made in the Cancun, Mexico, U.N. climate summit agreements to mobilize $100 billion annually by 2020 for climate change mitigation and adaptation ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Green Climate Fund (GCF), the world's largest fund helping developing countries deal with the impacts of climate change, said on Friday it had approved $686.8 million in ...

The Green Climate Fund created at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, meeting in Durban, South Africa, last week will go a long way toward reducing ever ...

The Climate Investment Funds were explicitly intended as the pilot for a larger, future fund, and they are slated to sunset as the Green Climate Fund becomes operational.

The 24-member board of the Green Climate Fund met at a Zambian hotel alongside the scenic Victoria Falls in early November with a clear mission: Do something.

The Green Climate Fund has been thrust into the spotlight of late. President Trump singled it out for scorn in his Rose Garden remarks last week announcing his decision to pull the U.S. from the ...

A climate funding conference in Bonn, Germany, on Thursday saw a handful of countries add cash to the Green Climate Fund – the U.N.'s main funding arm for dispersing climate finance.

As Trump mentioned later in his speech, the United States has given the Green Climate Fund $1 billion already. President Barack Obama pledged a total of $3 billion to the fund by 2020 as part of a ...

AP Photo/John Minchillo Last year’s climate spending law doesn’t require EPA to pump $20 billion into a national green bank. But the agency could still create something along those lines.