Saliem Fakir - Low Carbon Future
Decolonising the green economy
By: Saliem Fakir 4th August 2017 On June 13, a good agent provocateur, former National Planning Commission member Mike Muller, proposed in a panel discussion at a Trade and... →
Is science losing its authority? 
By: Saliem Fakir 16th June 2017 Scientists have, for a long time, been held in high esteem. Yet scientist struggle to effectively mediate evidenced-based outcomes in highly... →
New vision needed for conservation
By: Saliem Fakir 26th May 2017 A friend of mine, Mark Halle, argues that the world of conservation is going nowhere and that a new vision is needed to take it out of its... →
Political entrepreneurship in the energy sector
By: Saliem Fakir 5th May 2017 The expediency for rent-seeking that comes with large capital infrastructure projects is always lurking behind the scenes. The extent to which long... →
What can we tell of Eskom’s future from the Denton report?
By: Saliem Fakir 3rd March 2017 The debate on the independent power producer (IPP) programme can serve as a useful distraction, and power utility Eskom is exploiting it to the... →
Going beyond the Limits to Growth debate
By: Saliem Fakir 10th February 2017 The Limits to Growth (LTG) thesis was developed in the 1970s by a group of experts collectively called the Club of Rome. They used a computer (at... →
Why the future need not be so bleak
By: Saliem Fakir 27th January 2017 Sometimes environmental dystopia can obscure progress. As the global climate negotiation process moves along, it is interesting to see how the... →
Climate change in the Donald Trump era
By: Saliem Fakir 9th December 2016 Donald Trump's Presidency will, no doubt, have a significant impact on the progress on collective action on the climate change front. The US... →
Decolonisation of science – what is it?
By: Saliem Fakir 11th November 2016 A group of University of Cape Town students organised a panel discussion on the decolonisation of science, which is also another way of saying that... →
Why technological transitions happen
By: Saliem Fakir 14th October 2016 Sustainability theorists have generally provided broad and abstract descriptors of technoeconomic transitions, as they are focused on drivers that... →
