Green Climate Fund
Cayetano Casado currently serves as the Regional Manager for Latin America at the Green Climate Fund, a position held since May 2022. Prior to this role, Cayetano was the Regional Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean at the NDC Partnership from September 2017 to May 2022, where responsibilities included coordinating activities across 21 member countries and leading communication efforts related to Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) implementation. From November 2010 to September 2017, Cayetano was the Coordinator of the Regional Programme for Climate Change for Latin America and the Caribbean at UNDP, focusing on NDCs, adaptation, and mitigation strategies. Additional experience includes positions at UNDP as a Programme Officer in Environment and Energy, an intern and pro-bono consultant at World Wildlife Fund Thailand, and a Research Analyst at The World Bank. Cayetano's educational background includes studies at Yale University and Universidad de Córdoba, where an engineering degree in agriculture was obtained.
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Green Climate Fund
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the world's largest climate fund dedicated to helping developing countries take climate action. GCF helps developing countries limit or reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. It seeks to promote a paradigm shift to low-emission and climate-resilient development, taking into account the needs of nations that are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts. It was set up by the 194 countries who are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2010, as part of the Convention’s financial mechanism. It aims to deliver equal amounts of funding to mitigation and adaptation, while being guided by UNFCCC's principles and provisions. When the Paris Agreement was reached in 2015, GCF was given an important role in serving the agreement and supporting the goal of keeping global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius. Responding to the climate challenge requires collective action from all countries, including by both public and private sectors. Among these concerted efforts, advanced economies have agreed to jointly mobilize significant financial resources. Coming from a variety of sources, these resources address the pressing mitigation and adaptation needs of developing countries.