09.03.2017
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WHAT is the People’s Survival Fund (PSF)? The PSF is the government’s flagship climate finance program. It is a resultant program of the 2012 PSF Law (Republic Act 10174), which addressed the lack of climate finance provisions in the 2009 Climate Change Act (RA 9729)....
22.07.2016
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Several big international funds, including the U.N. Green Climate Fund, are trying to dole out billions of dollars to countries and communities to help them tackle climate change by adapting to extreme weather and adopting renewable energy. But most government officials and smaller institutions simply...
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the newest financial mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Under the scope of Article 11 of the UNFCCC, the GCF was established at the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP 16) with an aim to achieve overriding...
10.10.2013
With the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report painting a clear and worrying picture regarding man-made climate change, cities and regions came together at the World Mayors Summit on Climate Change yesterday to affirm their commitment to scale up climate actions, urge engagement...
25.03.2013
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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board concluded its third meeting with the adoption of a series of decisions on, among other things, the Board’s rules of procedure, the GCF’s business model framework and resource mobilization, and establishment of its independent secretariat. The meeting, which took...