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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.

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Direct Link to Full 45-Page 2013 Publication:

https://unfccc.int/files/cooperation_and_support/financial_mechanism/standing_committee/application/pdf/final_schalatek_burns_gcf_gender-sensitive-approach.doc.pdf

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.