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Fakir is interim executive director of the African Climate Foundation – saliem@africanclimatefoundation.org

By Saliem Fakir

The future of central grids

4th October 2013

Is it possible that we can have a new world in which the central grid is outdated and a more diffused and dispersed system takes its place? Is this wishful thinking? 


National planning and the role of markets

6th September 2013

The National Development Plan (NDP) is receiving vitriol from both the left and liberals these days. The left sees the NDP as being too market friendly, while the right sees it as being too Statist. 


Oil abounds globally, but SA faces uncertainty

2nd August 2013

Each day, more oil is discovered and the earth seems to spew more of the stuff, mocking the peak oil pundits and adding to the anxieties of climate change watchers. However, increasing supply... 


Carbon tax – the implications for South Africa

5th July 2013

In South Africa, there is considerable ambiguity and debate about the implications of tax distortions in the economy and the tax interaction effects arising from the carbon tax. There have been... 


Carbon tax – we must be prepared for what others may throw at us

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 discussion document on the carbon tax and the... 


Marrying the carbon budget idea with a carbon tax

10th May 2013

The Long-Term Mitigation Scenarios (LTMS) envisage a purposive transition during which there are insignificant barriers, there is no competition for resources, obtaining resources is not a problem... 


Saliem Fakir

South Africa's IRP2010 blueprint is outdated

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 east coast of Africa, Germany has decided to stop... 


Green growth or deep green economy?

Green growth or deep green economy?

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: “low carbon transition”, “sustainable... 


Of oil refineries, nuclear plants and the planning fallacy

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 need for vast capital investments but also the... 


The challenge of fossil fuel binding constraints

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

7th December 2012

Many moons ago, South Africa did pioneering work on how best we can meet our international climate mitigation obligations.  


Saliem Fakir

Will the planet be saved?

20th January 2012

Fourteen days of deliberations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change seventeeth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) culminated in a diplomatic coup where, for the first time,... 


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