Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama has stressed to world leaders to seriously consider threat of climate change and that the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month needs to be a success.

Speaking at the World Food Summit in Rome, Bainimarama also urged leaders to recognize the immediate problems that are affecting many countries and try and find workable solutions for a sustainable world of tomorrow.

He told the summit that the rising sea levels affect not just food security of the vulnerable pacific economies, but it puts into doubt the very existence of these regions.

The Prime Minister said Fiji experienced unprecedented floods in February this year and the enormous devastation caused by such disasters not only results in commercial and economic hardships but has deleterious effect on food production.

Bainimarama said it is imperative we view food security and world hunger not just as a problem for individual countries or regions, as like climate change, it is a global phenomenon.

Global decision makers will come together and agree on new climate treaty to replace the Kyoto protocol at the Copenhagen summit on December 7th to 18th.