Media Monitoring, Tuesday 5 December

STANLIB launches $1bln energy transition credit fund (Africa Capital Digest)

COP28: African countries sign on to join pioneering global battery energy storage consortium (AfDB)

COP28: DRC receives $40 mln to appraise natural capital for biodiversity and carbon crediting (Carbon Pulse)

Short-lived climate pollutant mitigation and the Sustainable Development Goals (Nature)

COP28: Africa set to scale up green growth through Green Industrialisation Initiative (Down to Earth)

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

COP28: Can Africa Green Industrialisation Initiative be the Continent’s Holy Grail? (Down to Earth)

COP 28: Here is a list of $4.48 billion deals Kenya has secured to develop green projects (Africa Business Insider)

AfDB kicks off creation of four green banks in Africa (The East African)

LeapFrog secures commitments from Temasek, EIB for $500M Asia-Africa climate strategy (Deal Street Asia)

COP28: Nigeria Announces Plan To Roll Out 100 Electric Buses (Tekedia)

Publication: Côte d’Ivoire Country Climate and Development Report (World Bank)

NEW REPORT | The Future of Africa’s Sustainable Cities: Why Clean Cooking Matters (CCA)