12th December 2015 saw the announcement of the landmark Paris Agreement, which is a new international agreement on climate change.1 Dubbed as the ‘world’s biggest diplomatic success’ by the Guardian UK2, this historic announcement officially meant that all participants at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change Conference of Parties 21 (COP 21), which included the United States, China and Germany have acknowledged that climate change will adversely affect the planet if no tangible efforts are taken to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.