Cities and urbanisation often get trapped in the double whammy of adding to climate change adversities and shouldering urbanisation and industrialisation. Addressing industrialisation, which in turn addresses several questions around employment generation is a key challenge for countries of the Global South in particular, a host of which were deprived of the opportunities to industrialise at the same time as countries of the Global North, simply because they were colonised and were bearing the brunt of the industrialisation of the colonisers at their expense! However, carbon emissions from factories in cities as they industrialise; has far reaching consequences beyond geographical boundaries.