Industrial Development Report 2011 – Industrial Energy Efficiency for Sustainable Wealth Creation: Capturing Environmental, Economic and Social Dividends, by United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, Vienna: UNIDO, 2012, 239 pp.

Becoming fat on carbon diet is bad, and agreeing to disagree on decoupling carbon from industrial growth is doubly bad. Nobel Laureate Al Gore (2007) once said: We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency – a threat to the survival of our civilisation that is gathering ominous and destructive potential … But there is hopeful news as well: we have the ability to solve this crisis and avoid the worst – though not all of its consequences, if we act boldly, decisively and quickly.