Media Monitoring, Thursday 14 March

Africa climate summit calls for more private sector green investments (Xinhua)

UBA Gets $100m African Guarantee Fund Backing For Women-led SMEs, Green Finance (Leadership Nigeria)

Climate Fund Managers to manage $1.3bn African blended finance energy fund (Environmental Finance)

Côte d’Ivoire to host US-Africa green and sustainable financing forum (The Exchange)

Nedbank CIB leads the way in sustainable finance in Africa (MoneyWeb)

South Africa sets ambitious timeline to end rolling blackouts (Financial Times)

MAURITIUS: France’s GreenYellow inaugurates its Arsenal solar power plant (14 MWp) (Afrik21)

Climate change and economic development in Africa: A systematic review of energy transition modeling research (Science)

How South Africa's automotive sector is navigating the green transition (BizCommunity)

Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC (Carbon Brief)

Youth-led Reforestation and Clean Cooking: Protecting Nature and Empowering Communities (Clean Cooking Alliance)

Banana farmers face existential risk from costs and climate change, forum hears (Belfast Telegraph)

Report calls for agroecological rethink of Africa’s food amid $61b industrial plan (Mongabay)

Climate change, food security, and diarrhoea prevalence nexus in Tanzania (Nature)