Sentences with phrase «for urgent action by»

The 18 corporate members agree; the group was created «to underline the need for urgent action by the global community and to influence the post-Kyoto process by demanding a global framework supporting a market - based solution to the climate change issue.

They directly call for urgent action by the world's nations at the Paris treaty talks in December.

Not exact matches

In a context where millions in our world are either excluded or have been rendered invisible by callous and inhuman policies and actions of international financial institutions and agencies (which are supposedly there to regulate trade and create the space for the powerless), to talk of ethical engagement of Christians in struggle for life, is more urgent now then ever before.

Just as in Bultmann's analysis the questions of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.

Just as in Bultmann's analysis the question of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.32

Thus, we see a claim which makes sense of all the martyrdoms of our time: Martyrs today no longer die explicitly for Jesus Christ nor for the freedom of the Spirit as was the case in the first two periods we had considered, but they die for human justice, i.e., an urgent new action is needed to defend those who are overwhelmed by the weight of totalitarianism.

«But for too many people country life is challenging and urgent action is vital to stop villages dying and our market towns being wrecked by unsympathetic development.»

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.

In the light of the crash in global crude oil price, which is Nigeria's main foreign exchange earner, the devastating actions of aggrieved militants on oil and gas infrastructure in the oil - rich Niger Delta which has resulted in lock - in or leakages of crude oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the government.

«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.

A report commissioned by the BBC governors today calls for «urgent action» from the corporation to improve its coverage of EU news.

A report originally commissioned by Gordon Brown - and updated for the coalition government - said «urgent action» was needed to protect the postal service.

Led by scientists from Chile's Universidad Andres Bello (UNAB), NGO Ranita de Darwin, and international conservation charity ZSL (Zoological Society of London), working alongside the University of Zurich, this new revelation highlights a need for urgent conservation action.

As the action unwinds, we find Don hurriedly returning to rustic Mount Raven by bus in response to Sonny's urgent appeal for assistance.

Please join us by sharing this Declaration and by taking urgent action for climate change and sustainability solutions.

Thirty years ago, A Nation at Risk, a report calling for urgent action to improve public education, was released by President Ronald Reagan.

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.

We frequently shared public platforms to advocate for urgent action to stabilise our planet's climate, and for measures to protect vulnerable people from the damage caused by the destruction of the world's priceless environment, in particular its forests.

The «need for SEC action has been even more urgent,» Jackson said, since the Labor Department's fiduciary rule has been stymied by the current administration.

The need for prompt (urgent) action implied by these realities may not be a surprise to the relevant scientific community, because paleoclimate data revealed high climate sensitivity and the dominance of amplifying feedbacks.

The UN Summit on Climate Change, convened this week in New York by Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon, brought together more than 100 heads of state and dignitaries to tackle the urgent need for action and to mobilize real

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

It's the bris - soleil system on the face of the New York Times, being climbed by «Spiderman» Alain Robert «as a peaceful way to create support for far greater and urgent action from world

In March, experts renewed their calls for action, frustrated with the lack of acknowledgement by federal wildlife agencies that this was an urgent issue.

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.

They put forward no proposals for the «hard governance issues» thrown up by projects that fall between the low and high thresholds, claiming (without support) that only the two tails need urgent action.

The DEA told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that they will extend the «grace period» for disposing hemp food products by 40 days until March 18, reassuring retailers stocking and selling hemp food products that the DEA would not commence enforcement action until the Court rules on the hemp industry's original «Urgent Motion to Stay.»

The letter calls on youth to show up and join the action because of the risks presented by the Kinder Morgan pipeline, the need for urgent climate action, and because of the role youth and young people played in winning Justin Trudeau his mandate in 2015.

This one - hour talk, «The Scientific Case for Urgent Action to Limit Climate Change,» was video recorded by UCSD... Continue reading →

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.

From my point of view, the implications for policy are critical, and the case for urgent drastic action has not been made, by BEST or anyone else.

He said the need for urgent action is best summarised by the motto of the American Lung Association: «If you can't breathe, nothing else matters.»

The Walk was launched a week after two landmark events in New York: The People's Climate March, in which 400,000 people marched to call for urgent climate action, followed by the United Nations Climate Summit, wherein over 160 world leaders announced their commitments to solve the climate crisis.

We can't afford to be distracted from the need for urgent action to combat global warming — rich countries must lead the way by agreeing to slash their emissions when they meet in Copenhagen next month.

If Huntsman decides to make a run for the Republican presidential nomination, will he distinguish himself from his competitors by sticking to his guns and insisting that climate change is a real problem that needs urgent action?

«Confronted by alarming scientific analysis on climate change, to which the upcoming IPCC Special Report on 1.5 °C will further contribute, enhanced action by all countries is urgent and necessary for respecting the Paris Agreement long - term goals.

Furthermore, the COP resolved to enhance the provision of urgent and adequate finance, technology and capacity - building support by developed country Parties in order to enhance the level of ambition of pre-2020 action by Parties, and in this regard strongly urges developed country Parties to scale up their level of financial support, with a concrete roadmap to achieve the goal of jointly providing USD 100 billion annually by 2020 for mitigation and adaptation while significantly increasing adaptation finance from current levels and to further provide appropriate technology and capacity - building support.

A team led by former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern concluded that the need for action was urgent, that acting now will be much cheaper than not acting, and that it is the only way to protect future economic growth in all countries.

No less by the very people (climate scientists included) who hide behind their claims they accept the science of climate change and the urgent need for immediate actions which must include changes to Laws and Regulations directly related to energy production and use.

in Africa, for instance, as early as 2020... in some countries, yields from rain - fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50 per cent... Today, the power of sceptics has become extremely high because economic interests which resist change support them... The challenge... is, therefore, to launch urgent grassroots action by civil society, business and local governments.

Abuse of the leasehold system is a growing problem; 43 % of all new properties in 2016 were built as leasehold homes, so without urgent action increasing numbers of flat owners will continue to be exploited for profit by unscrupulous freeholders.»

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.

Native title is, today, still governed by the exact same legal structure as that which, in 1998, caused the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (the CERD Committee) to put Australia under its Urgent Action procedure and request an explanation for this extreme imposition of discriminatory policy.

In determining key priorities for urgent action it will be guided by the Productivity Commission's Report on Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage, commissioned by COAG, in particular it seven Strategic Areas for Aaction it will be guided by the Productivity Commission's Report on Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage, commissioned by COAG, in particular it seven Strategic Areas for ActionAction:

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has requested the Australian Government to respond to a Request for Urgent Action submitted by a number of Aboriginal people residing in Prescribed Areas in the Northern Territory who are subject to the measures of the Northern Territory Intervention.

He called for urgent action as the number of Aboriginal children in out - of - home care soared by 42 per cent in Victoria.

The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,