Sentences with phrase «need for urgent action»

«Even though the temperature threat danger has come to be accepted by all major political parties both here and overseas as requiring urgent action to save the planet, this view has no substantive justification, and certainly none in regard to the alleged need for urgent action...

Political focus on tackling climate change has dropped since Paris talks, but need for urgent action remains writes Thoriq Ibrahim

Although Charlie represented a high suicide risk, the counselor felt, at the end of the first hour, that there was time to work and that Charlie had been able to involve himself enough in the problem - solving process that there was no need for urgent action.

They also emphasize the need for urgent action in solidarity with the poor and oppressed people in our land.

In a statement, the White House said that «the findings in this National Climate Assessment underscore the need for urgent action to combat the threats from climate change, protect American citizens and communities today, and build a sustainable future for our kids and grandkids»...

There's more than a hint of the controversialist in his work, and it seems an unlikely coincidence that Lovelock became convinced of the irreversibility of climate change in 2004, at the very point when the international consensus was coming round to the need for urgent action.

They argue that «the evidence of adverse effects is incontrovertible, as is the need for urgent action» and say «political action has failed to respond to the challenge that the science presents.»

• Run a SWOT analysis (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) to demonstrate the need for urgent action (e.g., students won't succeed in college without the ability to self - direct).

Business organisation the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has also pointed to the Pisa rankings as showing the need for urgent action to improve children's literacy.

CHICAGO — Seeing the need for urgent action to combat cuts in school library funding, staffing and programming, American Library Association (ALA) President Jim Neal will host a summit in Chicago on May 23, at ALA Headquarters, 50 E. Huron, to work with our nation's library leaders to craft a strategy to advocate for our nation's school libraries.

I consider this to be the existential threat of our time and am committed to doing what I can to help draw attention to the need for urgent action.

This indicates the need for urgent action still.

The second thing the initial Witoelar draft did was to note the need for urgent action — something that even the United States embraced — on the basis of those common but differentiated responsibilities — and that's where the devil of details lay in wait.

In 2009, Commission on Social Action to the Union for Reform Judaism issued a resolution on the «unprecedented challenge of climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions» and need for urgent action.

As the «older» spoke to the «younger» about their joint efforts to get our local city councilors and county commissioners to grasp the need for urgent action on climate and to use the power they have to take such action, he succumbed to tears.

«Late last year in Paris the nations, including Australia, agreed on the need for urgent action against climate change.

Some of their analysts oppose the dominant view of scientists of the need for urgent action to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

The need for urgent action to address climate change is now indisputable.

Exxon later pivoted to the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing public doubt about the need for urgent action.

Speaking at the event on the need for urgent action, Alison Tate, Director of Economic and Social Policy at ITUC commented: «We are in a race against time to stabilise the climate.

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.»

UK banks have made public statements about the need for urgent action, and are trumpeting their investments in renewable energy.

«The findings in this National Climate Assessment underscore the need for urgent action to combat the threats from climate change, protect American citizens and communities today, and build a sustainable future for our kids and grandkids,» the White House said in a statement.

I can logically say the precautionary principle indicates the need for urgent action on climate change and the need for slow, cautious, well - studied progress on GMOs.

«Ministers stressed the need for urgent action to reduce SLCP emissions to contribute to Arctic climate change mitigation and to the preservation of the unique culture and ecosystems of the Arctic which are under threat from rapid climate changes,» read the statement issued at the conclusion of the meeting.

Fahad Bin Mohammed Al - Attiya, Executive Chairman of the QNFSP and the Chairman of the COP18 / CMP8 Organising Sub-Committee, and Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator and former Prime Minister of New Zealand, opened the session with speeches highlighting the need for urgent action in the Arab world amid climate change.

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.

Only five years ago, INDUS undertook an extensive study of IP in Canada and produced a widely endorsed report declaring the need for urgent action.

«Importantly, the meeting agreed on the need for urgent action to protect, respect, promote and fulfill the inherent rights of Indigenous Peoples, especially in relation to the impact of climate change on the human rights of Indigenous Peoples,» Commissioner Gooda said.

This report suggests the need for urgent action on a national strategy to strengthen Canadians» financial literacy.