Saliem Fakir - Low Carbon Future
Carbon tax – we must be prepared for what others may throw at us
By: Saliem Fakir 7th June 2013 Minds become focused when things get real rather than abstract. This is what is beginning to happen since the National Treasury released its new... →
Marrying the carbon budget idea with a carbon tax
By: Saliem Fakir 10th May 2013 The Long-Term Mitigation Scenarios (LTMS) envisage a purposive transition during which there are insignificant barriers, there is no competition... →
South Africa's IRP2010 blueprint is outdated
By: Saliem Fakir 12th April 2013 Since the first Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) was drafted in 2010, the world has changed: Fukushima happened, more gas has been confirmed off the... →
Green growth or deep green economy?
By: Saliem Fakir 8th March 2013 Green growth or deep green economy? The green economy debate has been in South Africa for at least 5 years. The green economy also has other names:... →
Of oil refineries, nuclear plants and the planning fallacy
By: Saliem Fakir 8th February 2013 The great project Mthombo (new large refinery capacity) and the proposed 9.6 GW nuclear fleet is still on the cards. Both do not only describe the... →
The challenge of fossil fuel binding constraints
By: Saliem Fakir 18th January 2013 Despite the failure of the recent round of the Doha climate change talks, the national project on a low-carbon transition requires continued impetus. →
LTMS and the challenge of long-term technology planning
By: Saliem Fakir 7th December 2012 Many moons ago, South Africa did pioneering work on how best we can meet our international climate mitigation obligations. →
Will the planet be saved? 
By: Saliem Fakir 20th January 2012 Fourteen days of deliberations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change seventeeth Conference of the Parties (COP 17)... →
