Besides presenting such a wide overview, it also focuses on some of the most pressing issues faced by the energy sector, such as the implications of a possible delay in oil and gas sector investment in the Middle East and North Africa and the role of coal in driving economic growth in an emissions-constrained world.

The WEO 2011 starts with the alarming message that if current trends continue, and we keep on building a high-carbon energy generation system, by 2015 at least 90% of the available "carbon budget" will be depleted by energy and industrial infrastructures.
In fact, according to the report "major events of the last year have had an impact on short and medium term energy trends, but have done little to quench the world's increasing thirst for energy in the long term".
It is now the moment for governments to take concrete action in changing trends in energy sector.

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