Sentences with phrase «to take urgent action»

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

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».

The SSTA is calling for the intervention of Deputy First Minister John Swinney to work with Local Authorities, employers and the SQA to refocus teachers on teaching and learning and take urgent action against excessive workloads.

Yet these shysters have the gall to demand that the world's leaders take urgent action on the basis of their dodgy data.

This synthesis report has taken six years to compile, draws on research over 2,500 scientific experts from over 130 countries and should shock the world into taking urgent action to reduce global emissions.

Unless Cameron wants to be remembered as the prime minister who presided over a return to cardboard cities, he must not only take urgent action to help those already on the streets, but recognise how some of his own policies have put them there.

The acting National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Timi Frank on Tuesday warned that unless President Muhammadu Buhari takes urgent action, the...

Therefore, the international community needs to take urgent action in order to avoid the increasing loss of land.

Please join us by sharing this Declaration and by taking urgent action for climate change and sustainability solutions.

Finally, it outlines strategies for leveraging the expertise of highly effective teachers, working proactively with moderate performers to improve their skills, and taking urgent action with ineffective teachers to improve their performance or exit them from the classroom.

Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg said: «Michael Gove needs to take urgent action as pupils may lose out on places in college.

«Now they need to take the urgent action required to help ensure that all dogs are able to enjoy the activities that we know they love.

Moreover the achievement of other energy - related SDGs, including taking urgent action on climate change (SDG 13) and providing energy for all (SDG 7), will depend on understanding the integrated nature of water and energy.

Planet earth is «moving towards the tipping point» warned the President of the United Nations General Assembly at UN climate talks in Peru, where he called for world leaders to take urgent action towards a climate agreement that promotes socio - economic development in a sustainable manner.

Calgary Over 18 Child Support Arrears Lawyers warn that paying spouses MUST TAKE URGENT ACTION WHEN THEIR INCOME DROPS.

The recent statistics from the MoJ confirm an ongoing spiralling decline in civil legal aid which could be terminal unless ministers take urgent action to address the problem.

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

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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.

It should shock the world into taking urgent action to reduce global emissions.

That's great news, because we're in a global race to save as many of the one billion people who, if we don't take urgent action, will be killed by smoking this century.

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.

The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said he was determined to take urgent action to help clean up London's «lethal air.»

The Australian Veterinary Association has called on the government to take urgent action to ensure animal welfare is assured on live export ships.

I also spoke briefly on the second day of the conference about the need to take urgent action to protect and preserve Australia's dwindling supply of prime agricultural land — a report last year found that we have lost 89 million hectares over the past 26 years to four main drivers: mining, suburban sprawl, forestry and national parks.

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States should take urgent action to stop the «misleading, aggressive and inappropriate» marketing of breast - milk substitutes in a multi-billion-dollar global industry, say the UN Special Rapporteurs on the right to health, Dainius Pûras, and on the right to food, Hilal Elver, together with the Working Group on discrimination against women, and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

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 homeless and recovery charity St Mungo's today called the rise in rough sleepers unprecedented and called on David Cameron to take urgent action.

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

FoE called.on London Mayor Boris Johnson to «take urgent action to cut traffic and encourage people to walk, cycle and use public transport more frequently.»

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.

Green party leader Caroline Lucas, a member of the committee, commented: «Ministers must take urgent action to improve air quality across the UK — and step up efforts towards a greener transport policy to encourage people out of their cars and onto public transport».

She added: «President Bush appears unwilling to change direction and take urgent action to combat the devastating economic and environmental threats posed by climate change.»

«But if this taskforce is going to make a real difference for the millions of people affected by mental illness, it must take urgent action.

«We continue to take urgent action to crack down on the most dangerous drivers and improve training to make our roads safer.»

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 number of young people in custody is reaching crisis point and government must take urgent action to avoid a «meltdown», the Youth Justice Board has warned.

We need to punish those responsible and take urgent action to prevent our collapse.

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 European Court of Justice ruled that the UK must take urgent action to tackle dangerous levels of air pollution.

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

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.»