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Vice President John Mahama, has urged world leaders to adopt a comprehensive and sustainable approach to save developing countries from slipping deeper into poverty, caused by global climate change.

He underscored the importance of international support in order to reduce the vulnerability of developing countries to natural hazards. Mr. John Mahama made the call in a speech read on his behalf at an international symposium on Sustainable Ecosystems, organized by Valley View University (VVU), in collaboration with Ecological Engineering Society (Germany), at Dodowa on Monday.

He expressed disquiet at the challenges caused by global climate change to developing countries, and said it could have negative global implications.

Mr. Mahama stressed: 'It must be understood that additional climatic change-related stress can result in increased instability in poor developing nations. It could also engender increased migration to compound urbanization problems with a dire impact within and between developed economies'."