Nu flyder pengestrømmene endeligt fra Den Grønne Klimafond. Ved det semeste møde i Bahrain, der sluttede lørdag, godkendte bestyrelsen 19 nye projekter til en samlet værdi af lidt over 1 milliard dollar.
Der er bl.a. store millionbeløb til elektrificering af landlige områder i Burkina Faso, styrkelse af modstandsdygtigheden mod klimaændringer i kystområder i Indien, vedvarende energi i Tonga samt et institut for klimafinansiering i fire sydafrikanske lande.
Der blev ligeledes uddelt en lille slat til værtsnationen, som ellers ikke hører til de fattigste lande i verden, og et projekt, hvor FN’s Fødevare- og Landbrugsorganisation samarbejder med regeringen i El Salvador om landbrug i den “tørre korridor”.
Godkendelserne er godt nyt, da bestyrelsen ved det seneste møde, ikke fik godkendt et eneste projekt til trods for, at der lå ti på bordet.
Støtte til udviklingslandes klimaindsatser
Den Grønne Klimafond er oprettet under FN som en del af bestræbelserne på at skaffe støtte til fattige landes klimaindsats.
Fonden har nu i alt støttet 93 projekter med over 4,6 milliarder dollar. Den blev oprettet i 2010 og blev oprindeligt polstret med 10 milliarder dollar.
USA har trukket 2 milliarder, og da der er en bestemmelse om, at en proces for at finde flere midler skal startes, når 60% af pengebeholdningen er brugt, blev bestyrelsesmedlemmerne enige om at begynde processesen for genopfyldning nu.
Derudover blev 16 nye partnere godkendt. Det drejer sig om forskellige institutioner og organisationer, som gennemfører projekterne.
De nye godkendte partnere er nævnt herunder. Dernæst følger en liste over de godkendte projekter:
Nye partnere
- Caixa Economica Federal (CEF) based in Brazil
- Fondo para la Acción Ambiental y la Niñez (Fondo Acción) based in Colombia
- IDFC Bank Limited (IDFC Bank) based in India
- Ministry of Finance and Economic Management (MFEM) based in the Cook Islands
- National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) based in Pakistan
- Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) based in Finland
- Pegasus Capital Advisors (PCA) based in the United States of America
- Austrian Development Agency (ADA, Austria) based in Austria
- Compañía Española de Financiación del Desarrollo S.A. S.M.E. (COFIDES) based in Spain
- Financiera De Desarrollo Territorial S.A. (Findeter) based in Colombia
- Fundo Brasileiro para a Biodiversidade (Funbio) based in Brazil
- LandBank of the Philippines (LandBank) based in the Philippines
- Protected Areas Conservation Trust (PACT), based in Belize
- BNP Paribas S.A. (BNP Paribas), based in France
- Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR), based in France
- Inter-American Investment Corporation (IDB Invest), based in the United States of America
Godkendte projekter
- FP083 – USD 100 million for Indonesia Geothermal Resource Risk Mitigation Project with World Bank
- FP084 – USD 43.4 million for Enhancing climate resilience of India’s coastal communities with UNDP
- FP085 – USD 49 million for Green BRT Karachi in Pakistan with ADB
- FP086 – USD 101.4 million for Green Cities Facility in Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Jordan, Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Tunisia with EBRD
- FP087 – USD 22 million for Building livelihood resilience to climate change in the upper basins of Guatemala’s highlands with IUCN
- FP089 – USD 35.8 million for Upscaling climate resilience measures in the dry corridor agroecosystems of El Salvador (RECLIMA) with FAO
- FP090 – USD 29.9 million for Tonga Renewable Energy Project under the Pacific Islands Renewable Energy Investment Program with ADB
- FP091 – USD 28.6 million for South Tarawa Water Supply Project in Kiribati with ADB
- FP092 – USD 67.8 million for Programme for integrated development and adaptation to climate change in the Niger Basin (PIDACC/NB) in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger (the), and Nigeria with AfDB
- FP093 – USD 28.3 million for Yeleen rural electrification project in Burkina Faso with AfDB
- FP094 – USD 41.9 million for Ensuring climate resilient water supplies in the Comoros Islands with UNDP
- FP095 – USD 279.7 million for Transforming financial systems for climate in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ecuador, Egypt, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda with AFD
- FP096 – USD 21 million for DRC green mini-grid program in Democratic Republic of Congo with AfDB
- FP097 – USD 15.5 million for Productive investment initiative for adaptation to climate change (CAMBio II) in Costa Rica, Dominican Republic (the), El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama with CABEI
- FP098 – USD 55.6 million for DBSA Climate finance facility in Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa with DBSA
- FP099 – USD 100 million for Climate Investor One in Burundi, Cameroon, Djibouti, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mongolia, Morocco, Nigeria, Uganda with FMO
The following projects were also approved under the Simplified Approval Process (SAP):
- SAP002 – USD 8.6 million for Climate services and diversification of climate sensitive livelihoods to empower food insecure and vulnerable communities in the Kyrgyz Republic with WFP
- SAP003 – USD 2.16 million for Enhancing climate resilience of the water sector in Bahrain with UNEP
- SAP004 – USD 10 million for Energy efficient consumption loan programme in Mongolia with XacBank
