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The Pacific is ready to scale climate ambition if finance can flow.

Join us at #COP30 as we explore how the Pacific can move from

✅ grant-based climate action

📈 to mobilizing private sector finance

🟢 for green growth and resilient investment.

uncdf.org/cop30
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
How do we crowd in private capital for #LocallyLedAdaptation?

Join us at the #COP30 Nordic Pavilion as experts from Uganda 🇺🇬, São Tomé and Príncipe 🇸🇹 and UNCDF share solutions that strengthen resilience in early-stage and last-mile contexts.

🗓️ 14 November
🕘 9:00–9:45
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
At #COP30 today: UNCDF is joining a session on Sustainable Ocean Planning and Management for a Healthy Ocean," convened by the COP30 Presidency. 🌊

Ocean governance, climate, and investment are deeply connected.

🔗 unfccc.int/event/sustai...
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Catalytic forest finance can shift risk, unlock investment, and support indigenous-led solutions.

NOW at #COP30, UNCDF's Kawtar Zerouali explores:

🟢 results-based payments,
🟢 crowding in private capital,
🟢 community-driven bio-economies.

📺 Watch live: www.youtube.com/live/341ZIsc...
Forest Pavilion at COP30 – 13Nov AM – Forest finance and trade
YouTube video by Forest Pavilion
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November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🌴 Small islands are climate frontliners but are too often left behind in global finance.

Today at #COP30, Yabanex Batista joins Island Innovation, @jellsmoor.bsky.social + partners to share how catalytic finance helps close the adaptation gap.

📍CARICOM Pavilion, Blue Zone – Belém
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Droughts are lasting longer, hitting harder, and returning faster.

UNCDF is financing climate adaptation at the local level to help communities invest in water systems, agriculture, and livelihoods that withstand a changing climate. 💧

🎥 See adaptation in action: youtu.be/o7KKPs8pDz0?...

#COP30
Financing climate adaptation in Tanzania
YouTube video by UN Capital Development Fund
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November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In Ghana, UNCDF is showing how local finance drives national resilience.

Through catalytic investments and training, 13 districts now manage climate funds that have reached over one million people.

🌱 Mary’s story shows it’s working. #COP30

uncdf.live/cop-ghana
Putting people first: Investing in locally led climate-smart solutions in Ghana
Mary Ocansey is a climate-smart smallholder farmer based just outside the Ghanaian capital of Accra, in Ada East District. She used to strug...
uncdf.live
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
#COP30 kicks off today in Belém - the gateway to Brazil’s lower Amazon region.

The top 3️⃣ UNCDF forest initiatives:

🌳 Pro-Congo Programme
🌳 Kibira and Kahuzi-Biega Peace Parks in Burundi 🇧🇮 & DRC 🇨🇩
🌳 Tiger Landscape Investment Facility

For more: uncdf.org/cop30
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A solar-powered water system in remote Bangladesh means 84-year-old Nayon Tara Chakma no longer walks 2km uphill for water. 💧

Through LoCAL, local govts turn climate finance into real services for 2.2M+ people.

#LocallyLedAdaptation in action

➡️Read the full story: uncdf.live/local-bd
Driving capital to the local level brings vital services to remote villages in Bangladesh
a locally devised investment in a solar-powered water system has brought water to Chakma’s door. This basic but vital infrastructure investm...
uncdf.live
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
What does inclusion look like in digital finance?

It looks like 250+ professionals, many of them women, equipped to lead policy, regulation, and innovation across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. 🌍

🎥 Watch the webinar: ow.ly/jtqU50XaukF
Scaling Impact Through Women in DFS: A Webinar with UNCDF and Digital Frontiers Institute
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November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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UNEP’s latest #EmissionsGap Report shows global temperature rise has only slightly fallen, leaving the world on track for escalating climate risks.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges countries to step up now and cut planet-warming emissions: www.unep.org/resources/em...
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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New national climate plans have barely moved the needle on limiting global warming. Yet there is hope.

According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Financial Literacy Week 2025 wrapped in Gambella, Ethiopia.

And the numbers show what’s possible when inclusion is intentional.

➡️ 55,000+ people reached.
➡️ Women and youth at the center.

UNCDF is supporting efforts to build a digital economy where everyone can participate.
November 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Uganda is home to more than 1.9M refugees who work, trade, farm, and build businesses every day.

But they lack access to formal finance.

UNCDF, with support from ECHO and local banking and fintech partners, is creating financial pathways so refugees can save, borrow, and invest in their futures.
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Join us today at 12pm EDT at #SDGLive with Uju Rochas, Dhiren Chandaria, Charles Wetherill, and Damilola Banjo, as they reflect how finance and nutrition can come together to drive impact.

Watch live📺https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k13/k13ug87wvw
September 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
With funding from Switzerland & support from the UN Peacebuilding Fund, UNCDF and Freetown City Council
are de-risking investment in solar-powered kiosks through the Blue Peace Financing Model.

Read how during #UNGA: uncdf.org/article/8985...

@swiss-un.bsky.social @swissfa.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
How is UNCDF turning the promise of #FfD4 into action?

Re-watch today's #SDGLive from #UNGA: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q... with Sierra Leone’s Minister H.E. Kenyeh Barlay, Malawi’s PR H.E. Dr. Agnes Mary Chimbiri-Molande, and UNCDF's Executive Secretary, in a conversation moderated by @devex.com.
September 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
How is UNCDF turning the promise of #FfD4 into action?

Join us Monday at #UNGA80 in the #SDGMediaZone with Malawi’s PR H.E. Dr. Agnes Mary Chimbiri-Molande & Sierra Leone’s Minister H.E. Kenyeh Barlay, moderated by Elissa Miolene from @devex.com

📺Watch live: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q....
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🌊 Can impact investing be the big ticket for #SIDS to protect our oceans & deliver on #SDG14?

🎙️Find out in the latest @odi.global #SmallIslandsBigPicture podcast with Yabanex Batista of the Global Fund for Coral Reefs (co-led by UNCDF, UNDP & @unep.org).

🎧 Tune in: odi.org/en/insights/...
August 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
#FfD4 is over—but the outcome was clear.

Member States encouraged UNCDF to shift the risk profile of early-stage markets in #LDCs and countries in special situations to unlock private capital and allow MDBs to scale.

Catch up on what you missed: youtu.be/SveyPZD8aT4
Blended Finance, Bold Action: Highlights from the Seville Commitment
YouTube video by UN Capital Development Fund
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July 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🗣️ Today at #FfD4, @un-ecosoc.bsky.social President reaffirmed his strong belief in UNCDF's catalytic role.

A proud moment as he recognized UNCDF’s mandate and investment capabilities that help create jobs and bring prosperity to the world’s most underserved markets.
July 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
UNCDF is making history.

At #FfD4, a once-in-a-decade chance to reshape global finance, the outcome document recognizes UNCDF’s role to deploy catalytic concessional first-loss capital and de-risk investment in #LDCs.

Read: 🔗 uncdf.live/OutcomeDoc
Watch: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdic...
UNCDF’s Role in the Future of Development Finance
YouTube video by UN Capital Development Fund
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July 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Meet us tomorrow in Seville! 🇪🇸

#DYK 👉🏾 UNCDF is the only #UN entity with a capital mandate? We provide catalytic financing through grants, concessional loans & guarantees to public & private sector

Learn about us ahead of #FFD4 & see where we'll be speaking: uncdf.org/uncdf-at-ffd4

@undp.org
June 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🇲🇼 A UNCDF loan to a small agribusiness in Malawi triggered:

30% ⬆️ in annual turnover
✅ job creation
🌾 new revenue streams

In 2024 Ziweto Malawi became the 1st Malawian #MSME to be listed on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius.

Read more here: uncdf.link/8928

#MSMEDay

@undp.org
June 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ahead of #FfD4, UNCDF's Laura Muñoz joins the UNRIC podcast to break down what is the international financial architecture and how UNCDF can de-risk investment and unlock capital for #LDCs.

Listen (in Spanish): uncdf.link/listen-esp
Read (in Spanish): uncdf.link/read-esp
June 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM