Media Monitoring, Monday 11 December

Masdar Advances 10GW Africa Growth Plan to Unlock Energy Transition in Six Sub-Saharan Nations (PR Newswire)

Uganda is planning a massive clean energy expansion – paid for by oil (New Scientist)

Gas found in Zimbabwe by Australian energy group Invictus (Financial Times)

CWP partners with Djibouti government to speed up 5-10 MW green hydrogen project (Offshore Energy)

US EIA publishes briefing on emerging hydrocarbon producers in Africa (Green Car Congress)

Senegal makes its entry on the international sustainable finance market with EUR 400 million partial credit guarantee from the African Development Bank (AfDB)

South Africa: African Development Bank approves $1 billion guarantee from the United Kingdom to support SA’s Just Energy Transition (AfDB)

Nedbank announces R10m Green Economy Fund (Engineering News)

Frontier Energy teams up with European DFIs to invest in Planet Solar (Africa Capital Digest)

American DFI acquires equity stake in Miro Forestry (Africa Capital Digest)

EAIF provides financing to Uganda's Ituka Power Project (Africa Capital Digest)

Mirova launches successor to $208m Land Degradation Neutrality Fund (Africa Capital Digest)

FMO and Green Climate Fund back evergreen debt vehicle with $180mln (Africa Capital Digest)

ANALYSIS – Egypt launches integrated voluntary carbon market, as observers flag potential conflict of interest (Carbon Pulse)

Researchers outline huge gap between potential fossil and carbon revenues from DRC rainforest (Carbon Pulse)

COP28: Malawi inks forest restoration carbon offset deal covering 3% of land (Carbon Pulse)

Africans sceptical of Al Jaber's COP28 renewables pledge (Africa Intelligence)

Development bank head at COP28 urges African exemption from EU carbon tax (Reuters)

COP28: Africa could lose $25 billion per year as new EU carbon tax comes into effect, warns African Development Bank’s Adesina (AfDB)

COP28: African Development Bank President invites business leaders to invest in Africa to accelerate decarbonization (AfDB)

Africa gains as COP28 focuses on climate change, health (University World News)

How will Africa cope in the COP28 global power game (Africa Oil Gas Report)

COP28 Declaration Seen as Good News for World's Small Farmers (VOA News)

COP28: expectations from unions in Sub-Saharan Africa (Industriall Union)

Africa’s Self-Appointed Climate Champion Makes the Hard Sell (Bloomberg)

‘A Lot More Action But We Need More’: Africa Takes Charge Of Its Narrative At COP28 Climate Summit In Dubai (Forbes Africa)

COP28: commitments of $1.7 billion in favour of biodiversity by 2025 (Afrik21)

COP28: First Zambian green bond will benefit biodiversity, BIOFIN says (Carbon Pulse)

COP28: an opportunity for Africa to reduce sovereign debt and stimulate renewable energy transitions (Energy Transition)

COP28: African nations resist fossil fuel phaseout, citing economic realities (The World)

The renewable energy agreements ramp up for Africa at COP (ESI Africa)

COP28: Niger unveils blueprint for Green economy, to plant 1bn trees (Daily Times)

COP28: African Group of Negotiators unhappy with adaptation finance talks (Premium Times)

Cop28 failing on climate adaptation finance so far, African group warns (The Guardian)

COP28: Bago unveils Niger State Green economy initiative (Authority Nigeria)

Climate Change Makes East Africa’s Deadly Floods Worse, Study Finds (New York Times)

Focus on people to boost Africa's climate resilience, says report (Phys.org)

“Green Colonialism”: Nigerian Climate Activist Nnimmo Bassey Says Africa Is Being Sold Out at COP28 (Democracy Now)

Kenya positions itself as Africa's climate champion (DW)

Africa’s Hunger Crisis Deepens as War, Climate Pile on Pain (Bloomberg)

LEAP Africa and Dow Unite Over 10,000 Volunteers in 28 African Countries Towards Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (Zawya)

A record 282 million people are undernourished in Africa due to climate change, FAO reports (News24)

BasiGo’s Electric Buses Are Starting To Have A Big Impact on Kenya’s Bus Sector (CleanTechnica)