Media Monitoring, Friday 1 December

Dubai Firm’s Africa Ambitions Raises Carbon Colonialism Concerns, Africa received an average of $35 billion per year for fossil fuel and clean energy projects over the past decade from G20 countries and multilateral development banks

CWP Global: Pioneering Mauritania’s Green Hydrogen Revolution at MSGBC 2023 (Energy Capital)

OPEC Fund €50mln loan supports SMEs and green energy in West Africa (Zawya)

Africa's energy mix (PwC)

How Niger’s military junta turned to solar to stem outages (BBC)

Africa received an average of $35 billion per year for fossil fuel and clean energy projects over the past decade from G20 countries and multilateral development banks (Carnegie)

South Africa carbon credit supply shortfall to continue into 2040s -consultancy (Carbon Pulse)

Tanzania looks to develop series of linked REDD projects to generate Article 6 credits (Carbon Pulse)

UAE to lease millions of hectares of land in Africa to generate carbon credits (Telegraph)

Dubai Firm’s Africa Ambitions Raises Carbon Colonialism Concerns (Bloomberg)

Kenyan communities are battling disruptive carbon credit schemes (Semafor)

Climate change is the biggest human health risk, says Africa's disease boss (Reuters)

African leaders & activists will bring new demands, hopes to COP28 (Mongabay)

Africa Going To COP28 As A Bloc Gives It Strength - Nasra Nanda (Citizen)

What is Africa’s goal at COP28 as the climate summit begins? (Al Jazeera)

Global Stocktake Q&A: What’s at stake for Africa at COP28? (African Arguments)

COP28: UN climate loss and damage fund approved in historic first-day progress (Carbon Pulse)

Nations adopt and pledge money to much-debated damage fund at climate summit (CNN)

Developing countries need 'radical' investment to fight climate change, UN says (France24)

East African nations should prioritise certain GHG mitigation project types for maximum impact -study (Carbon Pulse)

Deadly Climate-Induced Flooding Displaces Nearly 1.6 Million People across the Horn of Africa (Action Against Hunger)

Africa's agricultural outputs dropped by 34% since 1961 due to climate change says UN (The Cable)

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