LUCKNOW: There is a need for developing sustainable strategies for food security due to an increase in global warming that is impacting the productivity of plants.
Also, the development of environmentally sustainable technologies should be ensured so that both economy and ecology can grow.
Environment experts spoke during webinar organized by the different scientific institutes of the city during the World Environment day celebration held on Saturday.
ADCP Chiranjeev Nath Sinha gave plants to food delivery partners to distribute among people to mark the occasion“With the increase in global warming, there is a need to design sustainable strategies for food security and develop such plants that can tolerate rising temperature, ultraviolet radiation along with increased greenhouse gases,” said Professor Agepati S.
Raghavendra of the Institution of Eminence Research Chair, University of Hyderabad while speaking at a webinar organized jointly by the CSIR-NBRI and the International Society of Environmental Botanists (ISEB).
He further discussed the effects of increased carbon dioxide and said that high carbon dioxide levels adversely affect the net productivity of plants.
Athe IITR webinar, Padma Bhushan and the founder of Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organization (HESCO) Anil Prakash Joshi, said that need of the hour is to ensure growth of environmentally sustainable technologies.
CBMR, Lucknow in association with UP Academy of Sciences also organised a webinar in which former director of IISB, Padma Bhusan Prof P Balaram spoke on how our understanding of life evolved over time .
He also said that how the formation of carbon itself is a consequence of a very rare coincidence of three helium atoms coming together inside some star.
Prof.
Balaram highlighted the role of Haber Bosche process and said that this chemical reaction was extremely important in evolution.