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In the section discussing design management of the GCF, I would like to add the following sentence, sourcing work published by the Overseas Development Institute. Design and management of the GCF

During COP-16 in Cancun, the matter of governing the GCF was entrusted to the newly founded Green Climate Fund Board, and the World Bank was chosen as the temporary trustee.[1] To develop a design for the functioning of the GCF, the ‘Transitional Committee for the Green Climate Fund’ was called into life in Cancun too. The committee met four times throughout the year 2011, and submitted a report to the 17th COP in Durban, South Africa. Based on this report, the COP decided that the ‘GCF would become an operating entity of the financial mechanism’ of the UNFCCC,[18] and that on COP-18 in 2012, the necessary rules should be adopted to ensure that the GCF ‘is accountable to and functions under the guidance of the COP’.[18] ---Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute note that without this last minute agreement on a governing instrument for the GCF, the "African COP" would have been considered a failure. [19] When the board first meets, it will need to define and shape the relationship between the GCF and the COP.- Furthermore, the GCF Board was given the task to develop rules and procedures for the distribution of the money in the GCF, and for the cooperation with the national governments of the countries where subsidized projects will be taking place. The GCF Board was also charged with establishing an independent secretariat as soon as a decision was made on its host country. Finally, it also needs to select the permanent trustee of the GCF, doing this through an open and transparent procedure.[18]

NewsAndEventsGuy and I have been discussing whether ODI publications are a reliable source. I am very much of the opinion that they are. My talk page provides extensive evidence to support my position. It would be great to have some further input from other editors to confirm for certain that this is the case.

Many thanks,

Hannah Polly Williams (talk) 14:29, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Are there / does anybody have access to numbers how many payments have been made in a year? Would find that very helpful.

At the moment, the page shows only the amounts pledged.

GerdCastan (talk) 21:14, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
 * After Obama put $1 billion into this thing, the least they can do is pay him a nice speaker's fee. Whiff of greatness (talk) 01:40, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

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Some proposed changes
Information to be removed: The position of Executive Director is temporarily observed by Javier Manzanares until a replacement is appointed by the Board.

Information to be added: Yannick Glemarec, previously UN Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programme in UN Women, was appointed as Executive Director by the Board in February 2019, and took office in April 2019.

Explanation of issue: Executive Director has been selected as of February 2019

References supporting change: http://news.trust.org/item/20190225113855-byyet

Information to be added (end of para 2): Since 2015, GCF has approved over $5 billion in funding for projects in 97 developing countries.

Explanation of issue: Update to current portfolio

References supporting change: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-climatechange-finance/green-climate-fund-says-in-great-shape-to-push-for-new-cash-idUSKCN1QH2FP

GreenClimateFund (talk) 09:12, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Reply 24-APR-2019

 * ✅ The executive director was added.
 * ❌ The financials could not be added because the location of where the information was to be placed was not specific enough.

To the COI editor: Wikipedia appreciates your contributions. Once you have chosen a new username, please feel free to return to this talk page to make your future edit request needs known. Regards, Spintendo  11:19, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) Text in the article was found to be insufficiently paraphrased from the source material, and omitted from the article. Text should be placed in an editor's own words using an editor's own phrasing. A listing of the problematic text may be found here.
 * 2) Because the article uses two different citation styles, an unclear citation style maintenance template was appended to the article.

Some proposed changes to the list of accredited entities
Information to be added or removed: "Under the Accredited Entities" section:

List :


 * Acumen Fund, Inc. (US)
 * Africa Finance Corporation (Nigeria)
 * African Development Bank (Côte d'Ivoire)
 * Agency for Agricultural Development of Morocco (Morocco)
 * Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (Nepal)
 * Asian Development Bank (Philippines)
 * Attijariwafa Bank (Morocco)
 * Austrian Development Agency (Austria)
 * BNP Paribas (France)
 * Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (Brazil)
 * Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement (Togo)
 * CAF – Development Bank of Latin America (Venezuela)
 * CDG Capital (Morocco)
 * CGIAR System Organization (France)
 * Caixa Economica Federal (Brazil)
 * Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (Belize)
 * Caribbean Development Bank (Barbados)
 * Central American Bank for Economic Integration (Honduras)
 * Centre de Suivi Ecologique (Senégal)
 * China Clean Development Mechanism Fund Management Center (China)
 * Compañia Española de Financiación del Desarrollo (Spain)
 * Conservation International Foundation (US)
 * Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (France)
 * Department of Environment of Antigua and Barbuda (Antigua and Barbuda)
 * Deutsche Bank AktienGesellschaft (Germany)
 * Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (Germany)
 * Development Bank of Southern Africa (South Africa)
 * Ecobank Ghana Limited (Ghana)
 * Enabel, Agence belge de Développement (Belgium)
 * Environmental Investment Fund (Namibia)
 * Environmental Project Implementation Unit, State Agency of the Ministry of Nature Protection, Armenia (Armenia)
 * European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (United Kingdom)
 * European Investment Bank (Luxembourg)
 * Fiji Development Bank (Fiji)
 * Financiera del Desarrollo (Colombia)
 * Financierings Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden - Dutch Development Bank FMO (The Netherlands)
 * Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación de la Naturaleza A.C. (Mexico)
 * Fondo para la Acción Ambiental y la Niñez (Colombia)
 * Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy)
 * Foreign Economic Cooperation Office (China)
 * Agence française de développement (France)
 * Fundación Avina (Panama)
 * pt:Fundo Brasileiro para a Biodiversidade (Brazil)
 * HSBC Holdings PLC and its subsidiaries (United Kingdom)
 * Infrastructure Development Company Limited (Bangladesh)
 * Infrastructure Development Finance Company (India)
 * Inter-American Development Bank (US)
 * Inter-American Investment Corporation (US)
 * International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and International Development Association (US)
 * International Finance Corporation (US)
 * International Fund for Agricultural Development (Italy)
 * International Union for Conservation of Nature (Switzerland)
 * JS Bank Limited (Pakistan)
 * Japan International Cooperation Agency (Japan)
 * Korea Development Bank (South Korea)
 * Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (Germany)
 * Landbank of the Philippines (Philippines)
 * Luxembourg Agency for Development Cooperation (Luxembourg)
 * MUFG Bank (Japan)
 * Macquarie Alternative Assets Management Limited (US)
 * Micronesia Conservation Trust (Micronesia)
 * Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Ethiopia)
 * Ministry of Finance and Economic Management of the Cook Islands (Cook Islands)
 * Ministry of Natural Resources (Rwanda)
 * Ministry of Water and Environment of the Republic of Uganda (Uganda)
 * National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (India)
 * National Environment Management Authority of Kenya (Kenya)
 * National Fund for Environment and Climate of Benin (Benin)
 * National Rural Support Programme (Pakistan)
 * Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (Finland)
 * PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (Indonesia)
 * Pacific Community (New Caledonia)
 * Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (Bangladesh)
 * Pegasus Capital Advisors (US)
 * Peruvian Trust Fund for National Parks and Protected Areas (Peru)
 * Protected Areas Conservation Trust (Belize)
 * Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (Samoa)
 * Sahara and Sahel Observatory (Tunisia)
 * Small Industries Development Bank of India (India)
 * Société de Promotion et de Participation pour la Coopération (France)
 * South African National Biodiversity Institute (South Africa)
 * Unidad Para el Cambio Rural (Unit for Rural Change) of Argentina (Argentina)
 * United Nations Development Programme (US)
 * United Nations Environment Programme (Kenya)
 * World Food Programme (Italy)
 * World Meteorological Organization (Switzerland)
 * World Wildlife Fund (US)
 * XacBank (Mongolia)

Explanation of issue: There have been new GCF Accredited Entities in the last few Board meetings. References supporting change:
 * Complete list of accredited entities: https://www.greenclimate.fund/how-we-work/tools/entity-directory
 * Page 36 of CSO toolkit mentions updated number: https://germanwatch.org/sites/germanwatch.org/files/Toolkit_Engaging%20with%20the%20Green%20Climate%20Fund.pdf
 * Last paragraph mentioned updated number: https://bioenergyinternational.com/markets-finance/bndes-accredited-by-green-climate-fund-to-finance-actions-against-climate-change

Jedsaet (talk) 09:40, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Reply 2-AUG-2019
Regards, Spintendo  12:16, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) The current request states "Information to be added or removed: Under the Accredited Entities section:" but does not state which action is to be utilized here: addition or removal.
 * 2) If a substitution is to be made here — meaning the request is for material to be both removed and added — then the request needs to provide the verbatim text which is to be added along with the verbatim text to be removed. These two actions should be listed separately from one another in the request.
 * 3) The COI editor is kindly asked to open a new  template at their earliest convenience once their request is better described. Thank you!

Some proposed changes to the list of accredited entities
Information to be added: New organizations to the list in


 * Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (Nepal)
 * Attijariwafa Bank (Morocco)
 * Austrian Development Agency (Austria)
 * BNP Paribas (France)
 * Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (Brazil)
 * Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement (Togo)
 * CDG Capital (Morocco)
 * CGIAR System Organization (France)
 * Caixa Economica Federal (Brazil)
 * Caribbean Development Bank (Barbados)
 * Central American Bank for Economic Integration (Honduras)
 * China Clean Development Mechanism Fund Management Center (China)
 * Compañia Española de Financiación del Desarrollo (Spain)
 * Department of Environment of Antigua and Barbuda (Antigua and Barbuda)
 * Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (Germany)
 * Ecobank Ghana Limited (Ghana)
 * Enabel, Agence belge de Développement (Belgium)
 * Environmental Project Implementation Unit, State Agency of the Ministry of Nature Protection, Armenia (Armenia)
 * Fiji Development Bank (Fiji)
 * Financiera del Desarrollo (Colombia)
 * Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación de la Naturaleza A.C. (Mexico)
 * Fondo para la Acción Ambiental y la Niñez (Colombia)
 * Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy)
 * Foreign Economic Cooperation Office (China)
 * Fundación Avina (Panama)
 * pt:Fundo Brasileiro para a Biodiversidade (Brazil)
 * Infrastructure Development Company Limited (Bangladesh)
 * Infrastructure Development Finance Company (India)
 * Inter-American Investment Corporation (US)
 * International Fund for Agricultural Development (Italy)
 * JS Bank Limited (Pakistan)
 * Japan International Cooperation Agency (Japan)
 * Korea Development Bank (South Korea)
 * Landbank of the Philippines (Philippines)
 * Luxembourg Agency for Development Cooperation (Luxembourg)
 * MUFG Bank (Japan)
 * Macquarie Alternative Assets Management Limited (US)
 * Micronesia Conservation Trust (Micronesia)
 * Ministry of Finance and Economic Management of the Cook Islands (Cook Islands)
 * Ministry of Water and Environment of the Republic of Uganda (Uganda)
 * National Fund for Environment and Climate of Benin (Benin)
 * National Rural Support Programme (Pakistan)
 * Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (Finland)
 * PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (Indonesia)
 * Pacific Community (New Caledonia)
 * Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (Bangladesh)
 * Pegasus Capital Advisors (US)
 * Protected Areas Conservation Trust (Belize)
 * Sahara and Sahel Observatory (Tunisia)
 * Small Industries Development Bank of India (India)
 * Société de Promotion et de Participation pour la Coopération (France)
 * South African National Biodiversity Institute (South Africa)
 * XacBank (Mongolia)

Explanation of issue: There have been new GCF Accredited Entities in the last few Board meetings. The requested additional organizations are as of 7 July 2019.

References supporting change:
 * Complete list of accredited entities: https://www.greenclimate.fund/how-we-work/tools/entity-directory
 * Page 36 of CSO toolkit mentions updated number: https://germanwatch.org/sites/germanwatch.org/files/Toolkit_Engaging%20with%20the%20Green%20Climate%20Fund.pdf
 * Last paragraph mentioned updated number: https://bioenergyinternational.com/markets-finance/bndes-accredited-by-green-climate-fund-to-finance-actions-against-climate-change

Jedsaet (talk) 03:20, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Reply 4-AUG-2019
Regards, Spintendo  03:58, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
 * As the information on current accredited entities is available at the Green Climate Fund's website in directory form, the list of accredited entities in the article has been omitted in favor of a link to this information in the External links section.

Removed further reading list
I think the further reading list is not adding value and is outdated. Have removed it:


 * Abbott, K.W., Gartner, D. (2011). "The Green Climate Fund and the Future of Environmental Governance". Earth System Governance Working Paper No. 16.
 * ClimateFund.info. "Climate Fund Info".
 * Purvis, N. & Stevenson, A. "Climate Negotiations and International Finance".
 * van Kerkhoff, Lorrae; Ahmad I.H., Pittock J. and Steffen W. (2011). "Designing the Green Climate Fund: How to Spend $100 Billion Sensibly". Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 53 (3): 18–31. EMsmile (talk) 10:47, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Citation needed for beneficiary countries
Hi User:LordXI01 you added a table for beneficiary countries: please add the source for this table, otherwise it has to be removed for being unsourced. Also make sure that where you got it from, this was provided under a compatible licence. EMsmile (talk) 10:51, 19 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Done....will complete the table soon LordXI01 (talk) 19:46, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. But is it really worth listing all the countries here? The list could get very long. Perhaps rather focus on the top 10 or top 20 countries, i.e. those 10 or 20 countries that are receiving the majority of the funds? I wouldn't repeat the entire table from their website here. EMsmile (talk) 21:17, 19 July 2023 (UTC)