© Financoop - DFCD-supported project in EcuadorDFCD
The Dutch Fund for Climate and Development
© DFCDThe Dutch Fund for Climate and Development enables private sector to invests in projects aimed at climate adaptation and mitigation in developing countries.
The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made available € 160 million to increase the resilience of communities and ecosystems most vulnerable to climate change. The DFCD is managed by a pioneering consortium of Climate Fund Managers (CFM), Worldwide Fund for Nature Netherlands (WWF-NL) and SNV, led by the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank, FMO.
Investments made by the consortium parties seek to improve the wellbeing, economic prospects and livelihoods of vulnerable groups – particularly women and children – and, enhance the health of critical ecosystems – from water basins to rivers, tropical rainforests, marshland and mangroves. The consortium’s activities will also help protect communities and cities from the increasing frequency of extreme weather events and benefit depleting biodiversity in areas that provide people with water, food, medicine and economic opportunity.
Inspiring stories & results
© Financoop - DFCD-supported project in Ecuador)
Making Bamboo Bankable: DFCD-funded PT Indobamboo on track to scale up
© Global Warming Images / WWF“Businesses in emerging markets are key in moving the needle to improve climate resilience”
© Courtesy de Conexión / ICCO CooperationDFCD supports producer of natural colourants in saving the forest in Colombia
© WWF-Vietnam / Denise StilleyTransforming the local forest industry in Central Vietnam
© Andre Dib / WWF-BraziliëDFCD supports Brazil nut production in Amazon region
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DFCD partners with local financier of small-scale climate-smart investments in Ecuador
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Indian NaturaYuva is on a mission to grow commercially medicinal and aromatic plants
© Sandy Zebua / UnsplashEvaluation report shows important successes and learnings for the DFCD
© Keiron Brand / WWFDFCD prepares proposal for new EU funding
© Ian Isherwood - WWF KenyaWWF’s DFCD Africa team does their first in-country visit, to Kenya
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DFCD deal flow accelerating midway through the project
© Milos Bicanski / WWF-UKDFCD @ Cop 2021: Entrepreneurs on the ground are the real deal amid blah, blah, blah
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The DFCD partners with Ugandan Mandulis Energy to support waste-to-energy project
© Adam Oswell / WWF-Greater MekongWWF DFCD seals groundbreaking partnership to reverse degradation of Mekong Delta
© Martin Harvey / WWFDFCD partners with Zambian cane sugar grower to make its irrigation climate-smart
© PT Indobamboo LestariDFCD supports Indonesian PT Indobamboo Lestari to get ready to build factory to manufacture FSC-certified bamboo products
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DFCD supports Humankind Group to develop biomass plants that recycles agricultural waste into green energy and biofertilizer in India
© WWF / Simon RawlesWWF’s DFCD Opportunity Window is gathering steam
© Peter Chadwick / WWFBuilding a bankable nature-based solution from scratch in the Southern Drakensberg
© Martin HarveyFinancial risk related to biodiversity loss: black swan or white rhino?
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