Sentences with phrase «urgent action»

I consider this to be the existential threat of our time and am committed to doing what I can to help draw attention to the need for urgent action.
«The government has to take urgent action on this problem,» she said.
Yet it sets the stage for more urgent action by at least acknowledging the scope of the problem.
We will argue that allegations of sexual misconduct require urgent action in order to protect the public, and specifically to protect the safety of women accessing healthcare.
It's the impacts of climate change we're witnessing today that mandate urgent action now.
It's the people who are working in the private sector and don't have a company pension plan who need to take more urgent action.
Only urgent action can now prevent a catastrophe, he argues.
However, we must ensure that these dire warnings translate into urgent action and that the policies to tackle them are sufficiently robust.
This morning's news about the excess of bankers pay reminds us how urgent action is required.
The delays so far, and hints of a sustained, patient approach going forward, are surely frustrating for those seeking urgent action to accept.
If urgent action is not taken to reduce global emissions than the Last Ice Area may indeed be a reality.
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Creating a mechanism without the space for compensation is unfair, and delays necessary urgent action to avoid seriously destructive impacts of climate change.
In the meantime, even the lower limits of the likely range suggest urgent action.
This creates a huge problem as urgent actions often have little impact.
However, one reason why climate change merits urgent action is often overlooked: ocean acidification.
Of course urgent action is needed to reduce youth unemployment.
We need to punish those responsible and take urgent action to prevent our collapse.
Just: there is a problem that calls for urgent action.
These constituencies, facing immigration issues, foreclosures, and high unemployment levels, have social issues requiring urgent action.
A further three schools were discovered a month later, with calls from inspectors for more urgent action to close them.
If urgent action is not taken, the region and its Indigenous peoples face an uncertain future, and possibly a human rights crisis.
As world climate talks open in Peru today, new research shows how fracking is likely to further accelerate climate change, destroy water sources and infringe on communities» rights worldwide unless urgent action is taken to stop the «dash - for - gas».
(6) The Committee introduced the early warning and urgent action procedure in 1993 to improve mechanisms by which it could scrutinise the compliance of States Parties with the Convention, and to ensure greater accountability of States Parties.
154 Australian experts have signed on open letter to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull demanding urgent action on climate change that matches the dire warnings coming from climate scientists.
Lead researcher Aylin Ulman, recently based at the Sea Around Us, and her team call for urgent action from policy - makers to ensure the future sustainability of the fishing industry in this archipelago nation.
The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Dr. Georg Kaser — Mountain Glaciers This video sees Pam Pearson and Dr. Georg Kaser about glaciers and their slow decline over many years.
I consider that metacritic should take urgent action against people who put zero (0) to a game causing great damage, many will be haters and other terrorist companies, a game is a play and however bad it may be may lead a 4 or 5 of note, but zero?
Citizens Advice said urgent action was needed to mitigate hardship caused by delays, and the Child Poverty Action Group said issues with the policy were «not teething troubles but deep - seated problems that require a proportionate response.»
We then draft Issue Updates to inform our members of proposals worth watching and PetAlerts when urgent action is needed.
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 Welsh Liberal Democrats have called for urgent action as a Welsh Government report has revealed the shortfalls of Wales» mental health services.
«The HM Passport Office is in chaos and the home secretary's urgent action shows the true scale of the problem,» home affairs committee chairman Keith Vaz said.
«Within the Pre-Budget Report we want to see urgent action to keep ordinary people in their jobs and homes.
Recently I was invited to give a talk at the UNAI - START (United Nations Academic Impact — Science and Technology Accelerating Rapid Transformation) conference, on the role of nanotechnology in developing new solutions for energy, water, and health care — problems reaching crisis proportion in our world and requiring urgent action across all levels.
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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.
As the government prepares to set out its plans in the Queen's Speech, school leaders across 17 councils are calling for urgent action over a funding gap.
As the New Statesman's environmental correspondent, I have since been deluged with queries asking if this represents a change of heart by the magazine, which has to date published many editorials steadfastly supporting urgent action to reduce carbon emissions.
The IEA's technology roadmap shows how that gap can be bridged, and highlights various areas where urgent action is needed, such as accelerating the deployment of a range of mature bioenergy solutions, which can immediately deliver multiple benefits, and enabling the deployment of the new technologies which are needed in a future low carbon energy system.
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