The emergence of climate change in recent years is seen as an extension to the continuous focus on sustainable development, whose governance created ideological contestations about the relevance and irrelevance for developing and developed nations. When sustainable development was codified at the Stockholm conference in 1972, the underlying complexities and contradictions surrounding it created contestations, controversies and mistrust among first and third world countries. Developed countries expressed dire need to conserve and preserve natural resources for the future generations; whereas, developing countries emphasised the need to maximise socio-economic emancipation through exploitation of the environment as a resource-base for development in order to address the multiple prospects of poverty affecting the majority of their citizens. Currently, climate change which is thought to be influenced by concentrations of greenhouse gase