Saliem Fakir - Low Carbon Future
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... →
Fractured trade, inflation and prospects for climate action
By: Saliem Fakir 17th November 2023 The world is in a very different place to where it was when the World Trade Organisation (WTO) came into being in 1995: geopolitics and geoeconomic... →
Climate summits are about both reality and unreality
By: Saliem Fakir 13th October 2023 Climate gatherings are traditional stomping grounds where calls for radical change can be met with lukewarm or whimsical responses, but you can be... →
Technocene – the age where technology takes over the world
By: Saliem Fakir 15th September 2023 The concept of ‘technocene’ is not novel; in fact, there are lots of writings on this concept. The Technocene age holds the premise that we are not... →
Transitions and the politics of national sovereignty
By: Saliem Fakir 18th August 2023 One of my favourite childhood authors was the science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke, the author of 2001 Space Odyssey – which was later turned... →
Antidevelopment – the paradox of development
By: Saliem Fakir 7th July 2023 It has been said by some that those who desire to ensure we have a more sustainable planet and oppose fossil fuels are antidevelopment. Indeed, the... →
