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Green Climate Fund - http://gcfund.net/home.html
Given
the urgency and seriousness of climate change, the purpose of the Fund is to
make a significant and ambitious contribution to the global efforts towards
attaining the goals set by the international community to combat climate
change. The Fund will contribute to the achievement of the ultimate objective
of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Fund
will play a key role in channelling new, additional, adequate and predictable
financial resources to developing countries and will catalyse climate finance,
both public and private, and at the international and national levels. The
Green Climate Fund was designated as an operating entity of the financial
mechanism of the UNFCCC.
UNFCCC - United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change - http://unfccc.int/2860.php
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Direct Link to Full 45-Page 2013
Publication:
OPERATIONALIZING A GENDER-SENSITIVE
APPROACH IN THE GREEN CLIMATE FUND
Authors: Schalatek,L.; Burns,K.- Via Eldis
Produced by: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2013)
Climate financing approaches will be more effective and provide broader
benefits if they address inequalities that increase the vulnerability of women
to climate change and adversely affect their ability to contribute to
mitigation and adaptation efforts. Women still face unequal access to political
power, economic resources, legal rights, land ownership, bank credit, and
technical training.
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) can promote gender equality by
establishing structures and operating procedures that are careful to include
women as well as men in decision‐making roles, respond to the
particular needs of women for climate‐related financing, and
enable women’s enterprises to benefit from new low-carbon technologies and
economic opportunities. The gender‐sensitive approach should be
added to the list of priority issues in the Board’s work plan, addressed in the
discussion papers prepared, and integrated into all GCF components.