there are also funds that operate outside the convention like the climate investment funds or national funds like the uk s international climate fund the green climate fund gcf is the only standalone multilateral financing entity whose sole mandate is to serve the convention and which aims to deliver equal amounts of funding to adaptation and mitigation gcf it is envisaged the gcf will play a key role in channelling new additional adequate and predictable financial resources to developing countries and will catalyse climate finance both public and private and at the international and national levels decision cp