Saliem Fakir - Low Carbon Future
Securing the electricity grid from attack
By: Saliem Fakir 21st February 2020 As the intensity of global geopolitics increases in what is fast becoming a multipolar world, different risks within an energy system have to be... →
Climate crisis – there is no safe place anymore
By: Saliem Fakir 31st January 2020 There is a certain irony that, while the Paris Agreement was being debated in Madrid and going through its slow motion of nonaction towards the end... →
The circular economy movement and its place in South Africa
By: Saliem Fakir 13th December 2019 The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) hosted a circular economy colloquium in partnership with the European Union from November 19 to 20.... →
Climate finance must be a mainstream economic issue
By: Saliem Fakir 22nd November 2019 If climate change is a risk to economies, then it has to be placed in the mainstream of economic mainstream, rather than on the periphery. Economic... →
Can AfCFTA help stimulate Africa’s industrialisation?
By: Saliem Fakir 1st November 2019 The Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) was signed last year by the majority of the countries in Africa to create a common market and... →
Why SA should not install new nuclear capacity
By: Saliem Fakir 11th October 2019 Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has reopened the debate on whether or not South Africa requires nuclear power or not. He has... →
How science has lost its touch
By: Saliem Fakir 30th August 2019 These days, feelings matter more than facts, despite Hans Roslings’ plea for 'factfulness'. It is not the reasonableness of the argument or... →
Climate change and the future of food production in Africa
By: Saliem Fakir 2nd August 2019 The International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) is the highest scientific body on climate change that provides perhaps the best scientific... →
Acclimatising physical infrastructure to extreme weather events
By: Saliem Fakir 21st June 2019 Acclimatising conventional infrastructure to extreme weather Climate change and extreme weather patterns are already a factor in infrastructure and... →
Conservation as cost
By: Saliem Fakir 7th June 2019 The conservation movement has been around for a long time. In its modern version, it can be traced to the curiosity of early explorers like Darwin,... →
