Saliem Fakir - Low Carbon Future
Action counts, not declarations
By: Saliem Fakir 20th February 2026 An offhand remark caught my attention in the last stages of the Brazilian presidency of COP30. Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, the lead... →
Good State and community-based development
By: Saliem Fakir 23rd January 2026 One must be guided by several precepts when considering community-based development. The first is that if you do not know something, do something.... →
From nativism to society’s chains
By: Saliem Fakir 12th December 2025 Most of what we see in life comes from the way we organise life. As humans are social animals, the way they organise society can determine their... →
Justice in the transition
By: Saliem Fakir 14th November 2025 German Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch once noted that while the idea of utopia is something we must dream about, we need to pepper it with... →
Hallucination traps and knowledge gaps in policy
By: Saliem Fakir 10th October 2025 Policy-wonking can at times be a crude endeavour, and reality is not reached directly but through untested internal beliefs. Without direct... →
Decarbonisation: State-led versus market-led solutions
By: Saliem Fakir 19th September 2025 The view of mainstream financiers is that the market mechanism is the only solution for the scaling of climate solutions. Public finance from major... →
How geopolitics is changing the climate action landscape
By: Saliem Fakir 1st August 2025 Reality sings a different tune these days: hard power has thrown out the soft power model of the late Joseph Nye. Hard power now decides the terms,... →
Spanish blackout puts renewables in the crossfire
By: Saliem Fakir 11th July 2025 I went to Spain many years ago and visited the impressive Red Electrica, a world-class national grid and transmission system operator (TSO) that is... →
Replacement-equivalent model revisited
By: Saliem Fakir 20th June 2025 This article's aim is to revisit the concept of replacement equivalent, which is still a work in progress, concerning oil and gas economies in... →
Value without values
By: Saliem Fakir 23rd May 2025 “Scarcity is the judgement decreed by our economy,” Marshall Sahlins writes in Stone Age Economics – a line that casts long shadows over our... →
