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Climate change may lead to food shortage

Nobel Peace Prize winner and chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPPC), Dr R.K. Pachauri, today said decline in production of wheat in the country might be due to global climate change. He said the only way to mitigate the adverse impact of global climate change, which may lead to food shortage besides its other affects, was to reduce the level of emission of greenhouse gases through the use of sophisticated technologies. Addressing the public function, where he was accorded a warm felicitation by the Assam government, Dr Pachauri called upon the governments all over the world to ensure that public policies be influenced by

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