Sentences with phrase «government takes urgent action»

Ireland risks social and economic disaster from climate change unless the government takes urgent action, according to the Irish Academy of Engineers.

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».

Recommendation 16: That the Government take urgent action to support the reinstatement of bilingual education approaches in schools, and safeguard the future of bilingual education through binding agreements with state and territory governments and the provision of ongoing resources to support its implementation.

Recommendation 16: The Commission strongly recommends that the Government take urgent action to support the reinstatement of bilingual education approaches in schools, and safeguard the future of bilingual education through binding agreements with state and territory governments and ongoing resources to support its implementation.

Not exact matches

Take that ad Gingrich did with Nancy Pelosi on global warming, advocating urgent government action.

• 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.»

The report highlights the urgent action that governments need to take to end inappropriate marketing of all products targeting babies as specified in the latest resolution and guidance from WHO.

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 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.

NEA is also calling on the Government to take urgent action to minimise the impact of price rises on the most vulnerable through:

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.

The new government must grip this deficit and prevent the economic catastrophe that would result from putting off the difficult, and the urgent action that needs to be taken.»

But Conservative health spokesman Andrew Lansley said it was an «outrage», warning that the government must take urgent action to stop trusts spending more than they earn.

With youth unemployment hitting a record high and the total number of people out of work the highest since the Tories were last in office, the Public and Commercial Services union says the government must take urgent action to reverse the damage it is doing to our economy.

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.

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 Declaration calls on Governments to take urgent action to reduce carbon emissions.

Seems to me that an administration that cares about choice, about achievement, about state and local control of education, and about restoring the proper role of the federal government with regard to civil rights now has ample reason — maybe even urgent reason — to make known its views and take corrective action.

«The government must take urgent action and commit to funding schools sufficiently in the next Budget.

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 government has to take urgent action on this problem,» she said.

Geoff Barton, the general secretary of ASCL, described the survey findings as «stark», and claimed the work of schools will be «increasingly eroded» unless the government takes «urgent action over the school funding crisis».

The results of UK Feminista and NEU's groundbreaking study are clear: schools, education bodies and Government must take urgent action to tackle sexism in schools.

HSI / Canada and the Montreal SPCA are urging the Quebec government to take urgent action to properly enforce the current animal welfare laws.

Instead, Chairman Smith seeks governmental «oversight» over UCS's exercise of our core First Amendment right to petition the government to take action on the urgent threat of climate change,» said Ken Kimmell, the president of UCS.

«That this House notes that on the first of January this year climate activist and adventurer Steve Posselt began a 1,330 kilometre kayak journey down the NSW coast from Ballina to Moruya and is today pulling his kayak inland to Canberra where later this week he will call on the Federal Government to declare a climate emergency and take urgent action to address climate change.

The report urged governments to take urgent action now to tackle climate change, arguing that it would be much cheaper to act, rather than face the $ 10 trillion cost of not doing anything until later.

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.

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.

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».

The report called on the government to take urgent action to improve the effectiveness of the Equality Act in preventing discriminatory practices relating to dress at work.

We call on Government to take urgent action to:

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.»