Green Climate Fund partnership opens access to millions for Catholic Relief Services

Across the globe, Catholic Relief Services has worked with impoverished communities to adapt to the impacts of climate change. A new partnership with the world's largest climate fund is boosting those efforts, a year after massive cuts in U.S. foreign aid severely hampered the agency.

CRS, the overseas humanitarian arm of the U.S. Catholic bishops, announced on March 26 that it has received accreditation to the Green Climate Fund. Established in 2010 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Green Climate Fund provides developing countries financing for projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change and to build resilience to the impacts of a rapidly heating world. It is the main financial mechanism for the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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