Sentences with phrase «unless urgent action»

In a shocking new assessment of the prospects of meeting food needs, Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy research centre in Washington, says that the climate is no longer reliable and the demands for food are growing so fast that a breakdown is inevitable, unless urgent action is taken.

The document projects that, unless urgent action is taken, waste volumes will double in lower - income African and Asian cities by 2030 due to population growth and rising urbanization and consumption.

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.

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.

that the world faces a series of natural disasters within 18 months unless urgent action is taken to save the rainforests.»

Officials fear the outbreaks could spread inland to devastate countries already affected by drought and civil war, unless urgent action is taken to control the locusts immediately.

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.

Unless urgent action is taken to stem deforestation in key areas that are heading towards or have just dipped below the forest cover «threshold» — which, according to the research team's models, amounts to a third of the Amazon — these areas will suffer the loss of between 31 - 44 % of species by just 2030.

«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.

«Add to this the disastrous effects of climate change, and we are looking at a highly unstable global system by the middle years of the century unless urgent action is taken now.»

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.

Not exact matches

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...

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».

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

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 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.