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‘Climate change will trigger natural disasters all over the world’

KOCHI: Climate change is a challenge facing the world, but enough attention is not being paid to the issues pertaining to the phenomenon, said Prasad R. Menon, Managing Director of Tata Power Company Limited. He was delivering a lecture on ‘energy and climate change’, organised by the Madhavan Nayar Foundation at the Centre for Visual Arts, Edappally.

The magnitude of the climate change in the years ahead will be unbelievable. There could be long spells of heavy rain, prolonged dry weather, powerful cyclones or tsunamis. The glaciers in the Himalayas may start melting and the ocean levels may rise.

It will be difficult to reverse the trend even if the entire world starts taking measures to protect the environment. The impact will be felt across the world and not limited to one or two countries. The solutions like changing the energy models are difficult to achieve. All the agencies concerned all over the world need to work in concert.

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