the gcf seeks to catalyse funds multiplying the effect of its initial financing by opening markets to new investments gcf nd there is an expectation amongst some actors that the green climate fund will over time become the main vehicle for climate finance under the convention reducing some of this fragmentation amin jaramillo however this is dependent on the gcf becoming a transformative fund attractive to both donors and recipients and operating at scale unfccc it may take time for the gcf to emerge as the central driver of a coherent climate financing system so it will be important in the interim to ensure that the various funds work well together and that country systems and country plans are the central drivers of climate and development action amin et al