Sentences with phrase «by taking urgent action»
Please join us by sharing this Declaration and by taking urgent action for climate change and sustainability solutions.
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Urgent action must be taken to improve skill levels and how they are developed in order to boost productivity, wages and social mobility, according to a report from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), supported by the CBI and the TUC.
The Local Government Association (LGA) said that the total cost of repairing English and Welsh local roads is expected to rise from # 11.8 Bn last year to # 14Bn by 2019 unless urgent action is taken.
She added: «President Bush appears unwilling to change direction and take urgent action to combat the devastating economic and environmental threats posed by climate change.»
«But if this taskforce is going to make a real difference for the millions of people affected by mental illness, it must take urgent action.
«Add to this the disastrous effects of climate change, and we are looking at a highly unstable global system by the middle years of the century unless urgent action is taken now.»
The lawmakers said their resolutions, which were later conveyed to President Muhammadu Buhari by the leadership of the National Assembly, were «wake - up call» to the President and the Federal Government who «must» take urgent action on the crisis before it escalates.
Unless urgent action is taken to stem deforestation in key areas that are heading towards or have just dipped below the forest cover «threshold» — which, according to the research team's models, amounts to a third of the Amazon — these areas will suffer the loss of between 31 - 44 % of species by just 2030.
Officials fear the outbreaks could spread inland to devastate countries already affected by drought and civil war, unless urgent action is taken to control the locusts immediately.
Figures released today by the Joint Union Asbestos Committee (JUAC) in conjunction with the campaigner Lucie Stephens and Rachel Reeves MP, reveal the shocking disparity in asbestos management across Multi Academy Trusts (MATs) and reinforce the need for the Government to take urgent action.
The letter is part of an international collective call to action with authors» groups around the world to address the serious and urgent issue of contract terms in falling author earnings... We ask publishers to take responsibility for their role in authors» income by reviewing their contract terms and treatment of authors.
The purpose is to bring the relevant news to the trader on urgent basis so a required action can be taken by him.
That's great news, because we're in a global race to save as many of the one billion people who, if we don't take urgent action, will be killed by smoking this century.
The proposal by the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment calls on Exxon to take urgent climate action on moral grounds by agreeing to limit temperature rise to the globally accepted 2 degrees Celsius target.
The 840 - page National Climate Assessment, published this week, was described by John Holdren, the White House science adviser, as the «loudest and clearest alarm bell to date signalling the need to take urgent action to combat the threats to Americans from climate change».
«Without urgent action, the expansion of logging operations and the spread of wildfires fuelled by human - induced climate change mean that tropical forests are likely to become increasingly degraded, conserving only a fraction of the breath - taking diversity they once harboured.»
The Guardian, July 2, 2008 has a headline: «Climate more urgent than economy, say voters», followed by an article which starts: «Voters think that taking action against climate change matters more than tackling the global economic downturn, according to a Guardian / ICM poll published today.
'' The Guardian — 25 August 2016: Letter signed by 154 Australian experts demands climate policy match the science Leading climate and environmental scientists urge Malcolm Turnbull to take urgent action «while there is still time»
In my opinion, if you take the «realist» position for all the reasons we need urgent action now, you then have to accept that we and the next several generations are not going to be the ones to benefit by it.
Weak climate change targets could mean the end of coral reefs by 2100 if «urgent action» isn't taken.
Parties [shall][agree to] to take urgent action and enhance [cooperation][support] so as to (a) Hold the increase in the global average temperature [below 2 °C][below 1.5 °C][well below 2 °C][below 2 °C or 1.5 °C][below 1.5 °C or 2 °C][as far below 2 °C as possible] above pre-industrial levels by ensuring deep cuts in global greenhouse gas [net] emissions.
As we have seen, in the first two entries in this series, the new book edited by sociologists Dunlap and Brulle includes information on how participants in the denial countermovement have prevented governments from responding to climate change by undermining the scientific basis on which claims about the urgent need to take action.
Finally, the UK head of Shell, Lord Oxburgh, took time out - just before his company reported record profits mainly achieved by selling oil, one of the main causes of the problem - to warn that unless governments take urgent action there «will be a disaster».
The document projects that, unless urgent action is taken, waste volumes will double in lower - income African and Asian cities by 2030 due to population growth and rising urbanization and consumption.
It has taken six years to compile, draws on research by 2,500 scientists from over 130 countries and should shock the world into taking urgent action to reduce global emissions.
Where it is provided, in a common position or in a joint action adopted according to the provisions of the Treaty on European Union relating to the common foreign and security policy, for an action by the Community to interrupt or to reduce, in part or completely, economic relations with one or more third countries, the Council shall take the necessary urgent measures.
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Grandparents Plus is calling on the Government to take urgent action to prevent more families from being plunged into poverty, by ensuring all kinship carers have a financial allowance related to their financial circumstances and the needs of the child.»
In light of the urgency and fundamental importance of these matters, and taking into account the willingness expressed by the State Party to continue the dialogue with the Committee over these provisions, the Committee decides to keep this matter on its agenda under its early warning and urgent action procedures to be reviewed again at its fifty - fifth session.