Category: <span>Press Releases</span>

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Adaptation Fund Board Concludes its Twelfth Meeting Engages with Civil Society, Approves projects and concepts

15 December 2010

Cancun, Mexico, December 15, 2010  -  the Adaptation Fund Board which concluded its twelfth session in Cancun back to back with the United Nations Climate Change Conferen...

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Germany to Confer Legal Capacity on the Adaptation Fund Board: MoU Signed with the Government of Germany

7 December 2010

Cancun, Mexico, December 7, 2010  - Today in Cancun on the sidelines of the COP 16 climate change summit the Government of Germany, represented by its Vice Minister for Econom...

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Adaptation Fund signs for first project, funds coastal protection in Senegal

12 November 2010

Washington DC, November 12, 2010 - Senegal officials signed on Thursday a memorandum of understanding for the first project to be funded by the Adaptation Fund, established to assi...

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Mexico to host 12th Adaptation Fund Board meeting in Cancun

5 November 2010

Mexico City, November 5, 2010 - The Chair of the Adaptation Fund Board, Mr. Farrukh Iqbal Khan (Pakistan) and the Secretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of Mexico, Amb...

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The Adaptation Fund Board Approves Financing for Projects, Operationalizes the Direct Access Modality.

17 September 2010

Bonn, September 17, 2010 – The Adaptation Fund Board approved for funding two projects from developing countries worth US$ 14 Million. One of the two projects, awarded to Sen...

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The Adaptation Fund Board Approves Adaptation Project Concepts for Financing

24 June 2010

Washington DC, June 24, 2010 – The Adaptation Fund Board took another major step forward when it approved the first four proposals of concrete adaptation projects in its meet...

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Spain Contributes 45 Million Euros to the Adaptation Fund

29 April 2010

Washington, April 29, 2010 – Spain has become the first country to make a significant contribution of 45 million Euros (ca USD 60 million) to the Adaptation Fund. This contri...

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The Adaptation Fund Issues the First Call for Project Proposals

8 April 2010

Washington, April 8, 2010 – A new page was turned today in the global effort to help developing countries to adapt to climate change, as the Adaptation Fund issued its first...

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The Adaptation Fund Operationalizes Direct Access and Issues Call for Proposals by the Parties

25 March 2010

Bonn, March 25, 2010 – As a decisive step forward towards the implementation of its mandate, especially the ground breaking direct access modality, the Adaptation Fund Board...

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Germany to Host Adaptation Fund Board

18 November 2009

Bonn, November 18, 2009 – The Adaptation Fund Board has decided to accept the offer of Germany to confer legal capacity and to host the Board. Legal capacity will allow the A...