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Warming to bring drought, floods and hunger to Asia

Food shortages, water scarcity, heatwaves, floods and migration of millions of people will occur across Asia as a result of climate change, Reuters reported Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN climate panel, as saying on Tuesday.

Pachauri was speaking after Friday’s release of a report on the impacts of global warming by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which groups 2,500 scientists and is the world authority on climate change.

According to the report’s predictions, global warming would mean Asia would get less rainfall, affecting agricultural production and leading to food and water shortages.

"What we project is substantial decreases in cereal production in Asia and… there will unfavourable impacts on rain-fed wheat in south and southeast Asia," he told a news conference. "There will be risk of hunger and water resource scarcity."
 

Food shortages, water scarcity, heatwaves, floods and migration of millions of people will occur across Asia as a result of climate change

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