Swilling, M., Nygaard, I., Kruger, W., Wlokas, H., Jhetam, T., Davies, M., Jacob, M., Morris, M., Robbins, G., Funder, M., Hansen, U., Olsen, K., Davy, E., Kitzing, L. & Khan, B. 2022. Linking the energy transition and economic development: a framework for analysis of energy transitions in the global South. Energy Research and Social Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102567

Download article here: ERSS Swilling et al

So, where is the $8.5bn that South Africa was promised at COP26?

The Sub-Regional Office of the United Nations Commission for Africa (UNECA) hosted the 37th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts of Centre Africa (ICE) from 6-10 December 2021 in Brazzaville, Congo. I led the team that wrote the background paper for this meeting, comprising Prof Desta Mebratu (Ethiopia) and Anton Cartwright (South Africa). Entitled “A trip to 2030: Fostering Leadership and Transformative Change for Economic Diversification in Central Africa”, I used this opportunity to take further our thinking in CST’s governance research group that is linking relational governance, political settlements theory and ‘institutional work’ approaches. This made it possible to address the leadership challenge in Africa without resorting to simplistic arguments about ’lack of political will’ and the ‘need for new leadership’. This institutionalist perspective is heavily influenced by the new African literature on political settlements.

CST UNECA DOC_202112

See Chapter 27 of this great new book on the South African economy – co-authored with Nina Callaghan, State-Owned Enterprises in South Africa. In The Oxford Handbook on the South African Economy

Swilling, M. & Callaghan, N. 2022. State-Owned Enterprises in South Africa. In: Oqubay, A., Tregenna, F. & Valodia, I. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192894199.001.0001

Link to website to order the book

Play the game, not the man: Eskom’s André De Ruyter needs all the support he can get if load shedding is to become a thing of the past

Title: Working to align energy transitions and social equity: An integrative
framework linking institutional work, imaginaries and energy justice

Authors: Jesse Hoffman , Megan Davies , Thomas Bauwens b, Philipp Sp¨ath , Maarten A. Hajer,
Bleta Arifi , Amir Bazaz , Mark Swilling

Journal: Energy Research and Social Science

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102317

ERSS energy agency equity

Daily Maverick article on the days of sedition

Business Live article co-authored with Dr. Nthabiseng Moleko

Article published in Daily Maverick on 21 June 2021

Imagine no load shedding, it’s easy if you try — no hell below us, above us only sky

It’s the green train now — and you’re on the wrong platform, Gwede Mantashe