Sentences with phrase «said urgent action»

Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said urgent action was needed to tackle to the crisis, and blamed Mr Gove for belittling teachers and devaluing the profession.

Not exact matches

«We need some urgent action, now,» said Tim McMillan, CEO of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, citing in particular recently reduced corporate taxes and regulatory burden by the U.S. under President Donald Trump.

Most important, FedEx believes urgent action is required at the local, state, and Federal level to protect schools and students from incidents such as the horrific tragedy in Florida on February 14th,» FedEx said in a statement.

That isn't to say they shouldn't be attended to quickly, simply that sometimes their cries do imply urgent action needs to be taken and other times they're just cranky or mad at me because I didn't let them have two cookies.

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.

Urgent action is needed, the committee says, to stop up to 50,000 people dying early each year from air pollution related illnesses.

The communique said participants at the retreat recognized the urgent need to put in place clear action plans that would put the state on a good footing among its peers in the country despite the biting economic hardship.

But we're going to make this a very urgent effort, and Aimee will have the ability to track each and every one of the schools, the ability to call in the school leaders on a rotating basis as is done at CompStat, question them, find out what they need, push them harder, make sure they're doing their job, and if she doesn't see what she likes, just as at the NYPD, there's a whole host of actions that can be taken to improve the situation and to address the leadership dynamics,» Mr. de Blasio said.

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.

Speaking to the Education and Poverty motion NASUWT National Executive Member, Neil Butler, said: «The NASUWT believes that urgent action is needed to address the issue of child poverty in the UK.

Ron Campbell, Chief Policy and Research Analyst for National Energy Action said: «The original UK Fuel Poverty Strategy was described as «representing the start of the road to the end of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map».

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.

Urgent action is necessary, Kellner said, since a significant amount of time can go into updating election equipment and planning for the next election cycle.

In the wake of the recent tragedy, said Squadron, there's an urgent need for action on the legislation.

«Unless urgent action is taken to check the prevailing sharp practices in the operations of the ITF, students will continue to be ripped off,» he said.

The board also supported the decision and supported Bharucha in a statement, saying the financial situation of the school when he arrived was «not of his making and he deserves credit for sounding the alarm about the need to take urgent action to ensure Cooper Union's long - term financial sustainability.»

Schumer said the rising debt makes it clear that Congress must take urgent action.

He was at first said to be considering urgent legal action to be reinstated by Labour, [20] but declared on 23 September 2010 that he would stand as an Independent candidate.

Mr. Spota has said the investigation was an urgent action in a leak case.

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

It clearly shows that the rate of sprawl is increasing, and confirms there is an urgent need for action,» says Jaeger.

The study, compiled by the North American Bird Conservation Initiative and the first of its kind to look at the vulnerability of bird populations in Canada, the United States and Mexico, said 37 percent of all 1,154 species on the continent needed urgent conservation 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.»

Dr Ralph Holme, Head of Biomedical Research at Action on Hearing Loss, the only UK charity dedicated to funding research into hearing loss said: «There is an urgent need for effective treatments to prevent hearing loss — a condition that affects 10 million people in the UK and all too often isolates people from friends and family.

Having said that, I agree that climate scientists have already learned and communicated far more than enough to justify urgent action to end anthropogenic GHG emissions as quickly as possible — which numerous national and international scientific organizations, and many individual climate scientists, have explicitly called for in public statements.

«You should be suspicious of any urgent call to action to something via the web,» said Charlie.

Dr Alison Tedstone, Chief Nutritionist at PHE, said: «Children deserve a healthy future and these figures are a reminder that addressing childhood obesity requires urgent action.

Mr Cook said staff recruitment was a particular problem in Cambridgeshire but called on education leaders in both counties to take urgent action.

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

Urgent action is needed to prevent a shortage of secondary school places in a third of local authorities in England within five years, councils say.

A joint response from four teachers» unions said schools were «sending out begging letters to parents» and the «lack of urgent action is deeply disappointing».

They say that «urgent action» is required to reduce ebook VAT rates as the digital market experiences a rapid pace of development and sales that «continue to grow exponentially».

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 most urgent thing was to get organized and not allow for a normalization of the Trump administration,» Gingeras said later, with the group's formative Instagram action already implemented.

In a separate statement, the board said it was grateful for Bharucha's service: «The financial exigencies with which he was confronted upon his arrival were not of his making and he deserves credit for sounding the alarm about the need to take urgent action to ensure Cooper Union's long - term financial sustainability.»

«For climate negotiators to do their job, they have to realize what climate science is telling them: climate change is real and urgent and requires strong action now,» said one of the signers, Richard Somerville, a climate scientist at the University of California, San Diego, and an I.P.C.C. author.

If President Obama meant what he said in his recent speech about urgent action needed to stop climate change, then he must block Keystone XL and its massive climate - disrupting pollution.

So far, the CCC has not called for higher UK targets in response to Paris, saying action to meet current targets was more urgent and that more evidence is needed before deciding when the UK should aim for net - zero emissions.

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.

The Guardian, July 2, 2008 has a headline: «Climate more urgent than economy, say voters», followed by an article which starts: «Voters think that taking action against climate change matters more than tackling the global economic downturn, according to a Guardian / ICM poll published today.

The Commonwealth declaration avoided setting a numerical limit to global temperature rise, saying only, «We stress our common conviction that urgent and substantial action to reduce global emissions is needed and have a range of views as to whether average global temperature increase should be constrained to below 1.5 degrees or to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.»

Denmark's prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said if the world wants to limit increase in average global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius, then both developed and developing nations have to take urgent action and that poverty alleviation or development goals can not be tackled without addressing climate change.

«In light of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and its worsening impacts, and the related issue of air pollution from burning fossil fuels, the United States and China recognize the urgent need for action to meet these twin challenges,» the countries said in the statement.

We still have a choice, but time is running out fast and it is critical and urgent to take action to contain the worst impacts of climate change,» he said.

If all the bad things you guys are so convinced were going to happen were indeed going to happen all of a rush — say in a year or less — then maybe I;d be a bit more convinced that we need to take urgent, immediate and drastic action now.

Kakakhel, a member of Pakistan's original task force on climate change, said the need for action is urgent.

The debate is sort of encapsulated in two quotes: One is Robert Kennedy Jr. saying that if people only had the facts about global warming and understood how urgent this issue was, then they would take action, the right policies would come up and people would support the right candidates.

Susann Scherbarth, climate justice and energy campaigner, Friends of the Earth Europe said: «To have any hope of tackling our climate crisis, we need to see urgent and ambitious action, led by those who caused the problem.

Chebet Maikut, the commissioner of the Climate Change Department in the Water and Environment Ministry, says that the Ugandan government remains committed to reducing climate change and has developed a National Adaptation Programme of Action to address immediate and urgent issues.