PM Modi expresses concern over climate change affecting island nations, at Seychelles

Mahe, Mar 11 (ANI): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Seychelles President James Alexis Michel in Mahe on Wednesday (March 11) and said that climate change was a threat to island nations. Modi was accorded with a ceremonial welcome and was received by Michel. Modi arrived in Seychelles late on Tuesday (March 10) on his first bilateral visit to the island nation and was received by Michel and Vice-President Danny Faure at the airport. While addressing a gathering, Modi said climate change was a threat. Global warming poses a growing threat to the health, economic prospects, and food and water sources of billions of people, top scientists said in a report last year that urges swift action to counter the effects of carbon emissions. The 2014 report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the effects of warming are being felt everywhere, fuelling potential food shortages, natural disasters and raising the risk of wars.