Sentences with phrase «government for urgent action»

So they are petitioning their government for urgent action and strong leadership.

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• From Ecumenical News International: «For the first time in history, Swiss churches, including the Roman Catholic Church and Switzerland's main Protestant churches, have joined forces with environmental groups to launch a petition calling on the Swiss government to take urgent action to combat global warming.»

While the U.S. government has been active in reducing food waste for more than 20 years, the timing of our actions is increasingly urgent.

The RCP calls on the government to take urgent action to ensure that extended consultant delivered services, providing safer care for patients and the opportunity for excellent training of the next generation of doctors, can be achieved.

The Sri Lankan government and the United Nations and wider international community must take urgent action to protect people from torture in Sri Lanka and end impunity for perpetrators.

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.

As part of this year's celebration of World Water Day on the theme, «Nature For Water», WaterAid Ghana is calling for urgent action from the government to reach the 22 % of Ghanaians without access to clean water close to their homes, and leave no one behiFor Water», WaterAid Ghana is calling for urgent action from the government to reach the 22 % of Ghanaians without access to clean water close to their homes, and leave no one behifor urgent action from the government to reach the 22 % of Ghanaians without access to clean water close to their homes, and leave no one behind.

*** So, to sum up, I hope I've given you a sense of our approach: we started with the Work Programme; we introduced the Youth Contract; now we're homing in on youth unemployment hot spots; action that is targeted; urgent; always looking to do more; Government working hardest for the places that have been hardest hit.

The government has called for urgent international action to tackle climate change, after a new United Nations report found «unequivocal» evidence for global warming.

Despite repeated orders to take urgent action or face huge EU fines, the government has instead sought to ask for repeated extensions to the EU deadline.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have called for urgent action as a Welsh Government report has revealed the shortfalls of Wales» mental health services.

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

A government advisory body has called for urgent action to prepare for climate change risks, but has also highlighted opportunities

As such, there is an urgent need for government action to combat the illegal use of clenbuterol in livestock farming worldwide.

More generally, there is an urgent need for government action to ban glyphosate in order to protect our population from harm.

The report calls for urgent government action to raise levels of awareness and understanding among businesses about the system — which is being phased in over the next three years.

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.

AGW / CC Mitigation — 22 national academies and societies of science from around the Commonwealth call for urgent Government action and Net Zero GHG Emissions

At the 40th Annual Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) congress held in early June 2006 in Toronto, Canada, «Canada's leading scientific society on climate called for urgent government action on climate change,» Stephen Leahy wrote for Inter Press Service.

Market - centric approaches ignore the urgent need for rapid large - scale action, which can really only come from government.

As the need for action to reduce climate changing emissions and emissions causing ill - health and death becomes more recognised and urgent government incentives for owning EVs will increase.

That message has more relevance than ever as hundreds of thousands of people, us among them, marched Sunday in the streets of New York demanding their leaders take urgent action to address climate change, and as heads of government, industry, and civil society gather at the United Nations for an unprecedented global - warming summit.

While the bill was narrowly defeated, the high level of political and public support for the initiative sent a strong message to the Liberal government that urgent action is needed.

While the bill was defeated, the high level of political and public support for the initiative sends a strong message to the Liberal government that urgent action is needed.

UN Climate Change News, 15 May 2018 — UN Secretary - General António Guterres has renewed his call for governments, industry, and finance to meet the challenge of climate change through innovation, urgent action, and substantial investment.

Brito pointed that even though the Unesco did not fix a term for the country to take action, «the government has disposed these urgent measures with the goal of getting out of the Danger List».

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.

The chairman of the Justice Select Committee in the Commons, Bob Neill MP, is calling for urgent government action on shortfalls in the civil legal aid system.

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.

The overrepresentation in imprisonment and crime victimisation rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people requires urgent, coordinated action from government.