Saliem Fakir - Low Carbon Future
Single-cause issues and the problem of collective action
By: Saliem Fakir 18th October 2024 In his book, How Neoliberalism Failed, and What a Better Society Could Look Like, which critiques neoliberal policies and explores alternatives for... →
Africa’s multiple transitions
By: Saliem Fakir 6th September 2024 The issue of transitions in Africa is not singular; rather, the continent is experiencing multiple, convergent transitions. Addressing the energy... →
Varied ways of thinking and not thinking in the world of policy commentators
By: Saliem Fakir 9th August 2024 We are entering a period of intense transition processes globally, necessitating the phasing out of fossil fuels. Implementation needs to be... →
‘Justice’ in the Just Transition
By: Saliem Fakir 19th July 2024 The concept of ‘just’ in the Just Transition, associated with processes such as Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs), should not be viewed... →
Climate and development investment platforms as tools for transformation
By: Saliem Fakir 17th May 2024 It takes a while but, slowly, one gets to see the possibility of things. Climate action has long been the mainstay of a specific tradition, which... →
The age of anxiety and turbulence
By: Saliem Fakir 12th April 2024 A range of statements echoed through the chambers of the Munich Security Conference recently, and etched on everyone’s face was anxiousness about... →
Debt, climate change and economic transformation
By: Saliem Fakir 22nd March 2024 Debt is never free lunch, even if it is for the cause of climate change. Debt’s relation is defined by what the creditor demands as the rate of... →
Climate change post COP 28
By: Saliem Fakir 16th February 2024 You must have felt a bit of a daze with the cacophony of announcements at the twenty-eighth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations... →
The value of tacit knowledge for economic success
By: Saliem Fakir 26th January 2024 Michael Polanyi, the brother of the famous Karl Polanyi (the writer of The Great Transformation), says in his book, Tacit Knowledge, that “we can... →
Of policy wonks, Utopians and realists
By: Saliem Fakir 15th December 2023 Policy wonks like me are in the business of persuasion and perhaps a little grandstanding. The picture of the world we want has to be a different... →
