Saliem Fakir - Low Carbon Future
Enviro rights entail more than just the environment
By: Saliem Fakir 18th August 2017 It is important to review where we have come from over the past 20 years and how much has been achieved in that time. South Africa's Constitution... →
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... →
