October 2014: The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has published a compilation of submissions on the Fund’s investment framework. Following the adoption of the Fund’s initial investment framework in August 2014, the GCF Board’s Investment Committee is considering elements for further development of the framework, including: definitions for activity-specific sub-criteria and a set of activity-specific indicators; minimum benchmarks for each criterion, consideration of best practices of other institutions; and identification and comparison of methodologies for assessing the relative quality and innovativeness of comparable funding proposals in comparable circumstances.

The Secretariat, on behalf of the Investment Committee, invited individuals and organizations with an interest in climate finance, adaptation, innovative finance, development finance and related topics, to provide inputs on those specific elements. Each submission is detailed in the compilation document.

Submissions were received from Believe Green LLC, CoreCarbon X, Care International, Center for Clean Air Policy, Friends of the Earth USA, Institute for Policy Studies, Global Forest Coalition, Global Water Partnership, Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America, International Emissions Trading Association, International Renewable Energy Alliance, Benito Müller (Oxford Climate Policy), NAMA Facility, Oil Change International – Friends of the Earth US, Rural Reconstruction Nepal, SNV Netherlands Development Organization, Doreen Stabinsky (College of the Atlantic), World Bank, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), World Future Council, and World Resources Institute. [Publication: Compilation of Submissions: Investment Framework Call for Public Inputs]