Climate change, an anthropogenic phenomenon caused by the emission of cumulative greenhouse gases (GHG), mostly from fossil fuel combustion (see Figure 1)1 has become a ponderous issue, as attested by many unprecedented changes over time (IPCC 2014a). As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said, the last three decades has been successively warmer on the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850, while the period from 1983 to 2012 was likely the warmest 30-year interval of the last 1,400 years in the Northern Hemisphere (ibid). As a result, the global average temperature has increased by 0.85oC since 1880 and it is expected to further rise by 1.5oC by the end of the century in relation to the average temperature of the 1850–1900 period (ibid)