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Climate risks and the socialisation of costs

By: Saliem Fakir     6th December 2024 Climate risks are a product of rising greenhouse-gas emissions caused by our dependence on fossil fuels, with these risks distributed unequally at... 

Industrial policy: from conceptualisation to implementation in Africa

By: Saliem Fakir     22nd November 2024 Someone gave me valuable advice once: Do not solely rely on the opinion of a policy wonk about anything if the wonk has not experienced it himself... 

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... 

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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... 

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