Sentences with phrase «take urgent action on»

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

-- Thomas Loster 14 Corporate leaders urging the Prime Minister to take bold action on climate change «In May 2005 the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change wrote to you about the need to take urgent action on climate change.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Another member of the Canadian Armed Forces has died of an apparent suicide, the seventh such death in the last two months, while Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair called on the prime minister to take «urgent action» and address the «crisis.»

There will be times when immediate action is an urgent necessity, but there may be other times when you come across a fervor on Facebook or Twitter and you need to take a step back.

Take that ad Gingrich did with Nancy Pelosi on global warming, advocating urgent government action.

• From Ecumenical News International: «For the first time in history, Swiss churches, including the Roman Catholic Church and Switzerland's main Protestant churches, have joined forces with environmental groups to launch a petition calling on the Swiss government to take urgent action to combat global warming.»

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:

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.

Facebook and Twitter provide much better opportunities to interact with followers, which helps build long - term relationships that help people make the jump into taking action when (for instance) your email arrives on their desk with an urgent headline.

Recall that on Friday, September 29th, the President of the Senate, stated that urgent and responsible action needs to be taken to tackle the prevalence of drug use in Northern Nigeria.

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.

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...

LONDON — The world is far behind on delivering the low - carbon energy it needs, and unless urgent action is taken, calamitous climate change is certain, the International Energy Agency told a meeting yesterday of energy ministers whose countries account for 80 percent of global energy demand.

The Declaration calls on Governments to take urgent action to reduce carbon emissions.

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.

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

The purpose is to bring the relevant news to the trader on urgent basis so a required action can be taken by him.

Interesting here that there are no brackets around «Parties agree to take urgent action,» since they have agreed on that for years but didn't actually do it.

Take action on a grand scale for a massively urgent problem.

The proposal by the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment calls on Exxon to take urgent climate action on moral grounds by agreeing to limit temperature rise to the globally accepted 2 degrees Celsius target.

«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.»

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.

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.

«That this House notes that on the first of January this year climate activist and adventurer Steve Posselt began a 1,330 kilometre kayak journey down the NSW coast from Ballina to Moruya and is today pulling his kayak inland to Canberra where later this week he will call on the Federal Government to declare a climate emergency and take urgent action to address climate change.

But this is, at least in my experience, the first time that «warmers» - those who, like Dr Romm, believe climate change is taking us to hell in a handcart and who lobby for more urgent action on the issue - have resorted to the internet equivalent of taking banners onto the street in an attempt to influence reporting of the issue.

So unless urgent action is taken to restore degraded land, the world is looking at an acute food - insecure future,» she told IPS in a special interview on the sidelines of the recently concluded UN Climate Conference — COP23 in Bonn.

This clear and compelling book will make it easier for the general public to see through their tricks, and more likely that the world will move faster to take action on the most urgent environmental problem we have ever faced.»

The report calls on countries to take urgent action to train workers in the skills needed for the transition to a greener economy, and provide them with social protection that facilitates the transition to new jobs, contributes to preventing poverty and reduces the vulnerability of households and communities.

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.

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.

So if we are really serious about urgent climate change action we should put CPRS to the side till at least 2020 and take direct action on the big ticket emission items for which there are commercially available solutions.

In a brilliant and heartfelt acceptance speech, DiCaprio made a compelling case for why all 34 million live viewers should take action on the «most urgent threat facing our entire species.»

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.

Representatives on the panel talked through the role that coal plays in the countries and regions they represented and the steps that are being taken to meet SDG7 — which calls for urgent action to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.

CDP is a nonprofit running the leading global platform for environmental disclosure, focusing investors, companies and cities on taking urgent action to build a sustainable economy.

Hard to find any facts, but he does offer the following: «The science on climate change has long been settled, and scientists agree that we must take urgent, aggressive action.»

So I think its adequacy or otherwise will depend greatly on what actions the world is willing to take now, and I hope they will take urgent and adequate action in the future.

We are pleased to see a carbon tax in Governor Inslee «s budget because it is urgent that we take action on climate change to protect future generations.

And if we don't take urgent action NOW to quickly end our GHG emissions and draw down the already dangerous anthropogenic excess CO2, then AGW is likely to have horrific effects on the entire biosphere that will go far beyond merely ending human civilization.

It has taken six years to compile, draws on research by 2,500 scientists from over 130 countries and should shock the world into taking urgent action to reduce global emissions.

Just one week before election day, we made powerful and urgent calls for New York's elected officials — at all levels — to take swift and meaningful action on climate.

Honourable Stephen Harper calling on the G20 to take urgent action to protect consumers of financial products.

Moore Blatch personal injury partner Ciaran McCabe comments: «We are seeing a growing epidemic of cyclists being injured on London roads that are being left with life - changing injuries — urgent action needs to be taken now to reduce the level of fatalities and injuries for this group of road users.

Where it is provided, in a common position or in a joint action adopted according to the provisions of the Treaty on European Union relating to the common foreign and security policy, for an action by the Community to interrupt or to reduce, in part or completely, economic relations with one or more third countries, the Council shall take the necessary urgent measures.

The report called on the government to take urgent action to improve the effectiveness of the Equality Act in preventing discriminatory practices relating to dress at work.