Sentences with phrase «radical action needed»

In the government's response in February 2012 we agreed with the vast majority of what the Review had found and, along with the majority of agencies working in the system, accepted that radical action needed to be taken.

The Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, an international group of US - based grass roots organisations, says there are only four years left to take the radical action needed if the Paris Agreement's ambitious target of keeping global average temperature rise at no more than 1 ° 5C above pre-industrial levels is to be achieved (Paris's other, more modest target is 2 °C).

UK About Blog Campaign against Climate Change (CCC) pushes for the urgent and radical action we need to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of the global climate.

Not exact matches

Theological thinking that folds in the face of imperial interests and supports actions that are destructive of people and of hopes for peace in the world — one definition of demonic religion — is in need of radical challenge.

He realised that the old methods needed refreshing, stating: «This vital field of action for the Church requires a radical change of mentality, an authentic new awakening of conscience in everyone.

Needed is a foundation for uniting a radical understanding of God's action in history with radical individual and corporate discipleship in the world — namely, reflection which results from depth experience, the spiritual life, the interiorization of faith through meditation, prayer and corporate worship.

I take religion to mean not man's arrogant grasping for God (Barth) and not assorted Sabbath activities usually performed by ordained males (the moderate radicals), but any system of thought or action in which God or the gods serve as fulfiller of needs or solver of problems.

«That kind of radical action not only creates jobs but it's good for the kind of green economy we need in the future.»

At the same time, we need greater investment in social housing and decisive action to make the private rented sector more accessible and affordable, along with radical solutions to tackle the severe shortage of truly affordable homes.

The New York Times says Cuomo's plan to fix Penn Station falls short of the «radical intervention» that the «blighted hub» desperately needs, and suggests the best course of action is to get the Dolans to relocate and unearth much of the structure.

It needs bold and radical action.

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

«Wales needs a government that is willing to take radical action to support our manufacturing industry — a vital sector for our economy.

James Chapman, who also recently worked as chief of staff to Brexit secretary David Davis, said that leaving the European Union was a disaster and that radical action was needed to halt the process.

Professor Robert West, Cancer Research UK's director of tobacco studies at the Health Behaviour Research Centre at UCL, said: «The smoke - free law has been a huge boost to smokers trying to quit, but radical action is now needed to build on this success.»

You need radical action of the type we have been taking in the past 18 months to set us on a new course.

For women, children and adolescents around the world to survive, thrive and transform our current society to arrive at the future we want, we need radical actions that will result in enormous social, demographic, and economic benefits.»

We need to force these potential district leaders to demonstrate whether or not they know what's at stake, and we need to find out for ourselves if any of the three people the Seattle School Board introduces us to will be willing and able to take the kind of radical, bold action that could lead to unprecedented educational equity.

We've outgrown the planet and need radical action to avert unspeakable consequences.

We need prompt, radical action now.

But they add to the scientists» sense of urgency at the need for rapid and radical action to cut greenhouse emissions.

If action is put off for a decade, it will need to be twice as radical; if it has to wait 20 years, it will cost between three and seven times as much.

«We need to be looking at much more radical actions to preserve those reefs that we still can preserve,» he says.

In the real world, where UN negotiations have not only failed to agree on an international regime of national emissions targets adding up to a safe global target, but have even agreed to delay such an agreement until it will be too late, radical unilateral action is needed to get a momentum for global action.

Having said that, since the climate talks have postponed a global treaty until it will be too late, radical unilateral action is needed to get a momentum for multilateral agreement.