Project spotlight | Approved – FP305 – Building the resilience of Togo’s national health system and vulnerable communities to climate-sensitive health outcomes

By Rachelle Sapphire Laplante   We caught up with Consultant Rachelle Sapphire Laplante to discuss the project: FP305 | Building the Resilience of Togo’s National Health System and Vulnerable Communities to Climate-Sensitive Health Outcomes. The project was one of three proposals the E Co. team supported to approval at the 45th Green Climate Fund (GCF) […]

Blog | The threat of a super El Niño exposes the limits of today’s climate finance

By Natalia Rubiano   ‘’The world must treat [El Niño] as the urgent climate warning it is.’’ – Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General El Niño, the naturally recurring climate pattern linked to warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific, was officially declared on 11 June by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration […]

Replay kit | GCF B.44 unpacked

On Tuesday, April 21, 2026, our climate finance experts hosted a debrief session to analyse key developments from the recent 44th Green Climate Fund (GCF) Meeting of the Board (B.44), which took place from March 25 to 28, 2026. They also discussed our recent 31st GCF insight report, focusing on ‘Rethinking capacity building models for […]

Blog | Channeling climate finance into waste-to-energy across Sub-Saharan Africa

By Abiodun Salako   The world generates more than 2 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste each year, a figure projected to reach 3.4 billion tonnes by 2050 by the World Bank.  While high-income countries produce the most waste per capita, it is low and middle-income countries that bear the greatest burden of mismanagement. Over […]

Blog | COP30 in Belém

By Paula Brufman   COP30 closed last Friday in the Amazonian city of Belém after two weeks of intense and often chaotic negotiations. The final outcome – a package of 29 decisions collectively called the Belém Package, or “Global Mutirão” – will not be remembered as a historic breakthrough on the scale of Paris 2015. […]

Replay kit | GCF B.43 unpacked

On Thursday, November 13, 2025, our climate finance experts hosted a debrief session to analyse key developments from the recent 43rd Green Climate Fund (GCF) Meeting of the Board (B.43), which took place from October 27 to 30, 2025. They also discussed our recent 30th GCF insight report, focusing on “Bridging the gap: Unlocking more […]

GCF insight #30

This is our 30th edition of our GCF insight report, entitled ‘Bridging the gap: Unlocking more effective collaboration between the GCF and the private sector’. This report seeks to explore the following questions: What does it take for private sector projects to successfully access GCF funding, and which systemic barriers, if any, are they still facing?

The report provides a clear overview of the actual process private sector actors go through when seeking GCF funding, making this pathway more accessible. Additionally, it highlights key trends in GCF financing aimed at better supporting private sector application processes.

Event | Takeaways from GPIC 2025

A team from E Co’s Private sector practice, represented by Zsofia Kovacs and Sofia Bessadi,  just wrapped up an informative few days at the Green Climate Fund’s Private Investment for Climate Conference (#GPIC2025) in Abu Dhabi. The event brought together financial institutions, impact investors, fund managers, climate professionals, and the GCF team. The theme of […]

Blog | The aid model is broken. It’s time for a climate finance revolution.

By Rowan Putman How the end of an era can catalyse a more resilient and impactful approach to funding climate action. 2025 has been an eventful year in the world of development and climate finance to say the least. The unfortunate developments in the US and wider afield sent shockwaves through the climate and development […]