Sentences with phrase «take urgent action as»

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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.

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.

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.

UK statistics are compelling and as a nation we need to take urgent action against the disease.

Offering hope that urgent action can be taken, Mona Mourshed told the conference that she and her colleagues at McKinsey & Company have shown that «systems can achieve significant gains in as short a time as six years.»

As local authorities warn that urgent action is needed to address a shortfall of school places, one council has taken drastic measures to address the problem.

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».

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.

In order to strengthen the global response to the threat o f climate change, Parties agree to take urgent action and enhance cooperation and support so as:

«As Europe and other developed regions fail to take the urgent action we need, people will be marching in solidarity with the communities on the frontlines of climate impacts and with the impacted workers, people will continue resisting fossil fuel extraction, and communities will carry on building the renewable, democratic energy systems that are the solution to the climate crisis.»

The 840 - page National Climate Assessment, published this week, was described by John Holdren, the White House science adviser, as the «loudest and clearest alarm bell to date signalling the need to take urgent action to combat the threats to Americans from climate change».

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.

Around that time the IPCC and other advocacies tried to pull «the old trick» of comparing projections with the «business as usual» (B.A.U.) case to show how bad it would become over a millennial time period unless urgent action is taken.

Panelists, which included senior environmental and health officials from Morocco, Gambia and Ivory Coast as well as UNFCCC, the World Health Organization, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, weighed in on the urgent need to take action on the environment in ways that protect human health — which is the core of planetary health.

Parties [shall][agree to] to take urgent action and enhance [cooperation][support] so as to (a) Hold the increase in the global average temperature [below 2 °C][below 1.5 °C][well below 2 °C][below 2 °C or 1.5 °C][below 1.5 °C or 2 °C][as far below 2 °C as possible] above pre-industrial levels by ensuring deep cuts in global greenhouse gas [net] emissions.

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.

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), as a member of Consumers International (CI), is joining consumer organisations around the world in calling for the G20 to take urgent action to protect consumers of financial services, through: