Sentences with phrase «urgent action now»

«Without urgent action now, we may not be able to prevent the further development of autonomous robot weapons later.»

It's the impacts of climate change we're witnessing today that mandate urgent action now.

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.

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.

In my opinion, if you take the «realist» position for all the reasons we need urgent action now, you then have to accept that we and the next several generations are not going to be the ones to benefit by it.

«We need to take urgent action NOW.

The manifesto warns: «The next UK government should recognise that without specific urgent action now there is a very real danger that Christian communities will have ceased to exist in large parts of the Middle East by the time of the next general election in 2022.»

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While that in itself may be cause for action, the extraordinary rapidity of the change we now observe makes action even more urgent.»

«We need some urgent action, now,» said Tim McMillan, CEO of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, citing in particular recently reduced corporate taxes and regulatory burden by the U.S. under President Donald Trump.

In a context where millions in our world are either excluded or have been rendered invisible by callous and inhuman policies and actions of international financial institutions and agencies (which are supposedly there to regulate trade and create the space for the powerless), to talk of ethical engagement of Christians in struggle for life, is more urgent now then ever before.

Experts have been warning for some time that our antibiotic use is unsustainable and now the UK's chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, is calling for urgent action worldwide against what she is calling «a catastrophic threat.»

Just as in Bultmann's analysis the questions of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.

Just as in Bultmann's analysis the question of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.32

Urgent action is needed now, by making sustainable palm kernel production not just commercially viable but also appealing.»

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is highlighting that urgent action is needed now to keep pace with the increasing move away from landlines to smart phones and to devices they enable like wearables, and from voice to data.

Surely the failings now require action demanding urgent improvement, not more reports confirming a lack of it retrospectively.

*** So, to sum up, I hope I've given you a sense of our approach: we started with the Work Programme; we introduced the Youth Contract; now we're homing in on youth unemployment hot spots; action that is targeted; urgent; always looking to do more; Government working hardest for the places that have been hardest hit.

«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.»

However, the report concludes, initiating deployment of these technologies is urgent; actions taken — or not taken — between now and 2020 to develop and demonstrate several key technologies will largely determine the nation's energy options for many decades to come.

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The jury is out but what is clear is that urgent action is needed, and needed now to get more teachers into our classrooms as schools face up to the coming surge in the number of students.

Seems to me that an administration that cares about choice, about achievement, about state and local control of education, and about restoring the proper role of the federal government with regard to civil rights now has ample reason — maybe even urgent reason — to make known its views and take corrective action.

We are calling for urgent action to be taken now to deal with the consequential animal suffering.

«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.

In 1991, the language was already strong and urgent, noting that the risks were sufficient to justify action even with substantial unanswered questions: «Despite the great uncertainties, greenhouse warming is a potential threat sufficient to justify action now.»

«For climate negotiators to do their job, they have to realize what climate science is telling them: climate change is real and urgent and requires strong action now,» said one of the signers, Richard Somerville, a climate scientist at the University of California, San Diego, and an I.P.C.C. author.

* Third, recognizing the need for urgent action and the Bali Action Plan's directive for enhanced implementation of the Convention between now and 2012, we commit to taking the actions in paragraph 10 without action and the Bali Action Plan's directive for enhanced implementation of the Convention between now and 2012, we commit to taking the actions in paragraph 10 without Action Plan's directive for enhanced implementation of the Convention between now and 2012, we commit to taking the actions in paragraph 10 without delay.

This needs to translate into urgent action - now.»

Acknowledgement of the now urgent need to address the current environment, development and climate change crisis by committing to ambitious levels of binding action, in line with science and equity and with clearly measurable outcomes and milestones.

That is the stark assessment of NASA scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen, who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth.

If all the bad things you guys are so convinced were going to happen were indeed going to happen all of a rush — say in a year or less — then maybe I;d be a bit more convinced that we need to take urgent, immediate and drastic action now.

The need for urgent action to address climate change is now indisputable.

It portrays that urgent action is needed to curb emissions now and avoid burning the other half.

The NAPs are supposed to build on the National Adaptation Programmes of Action for the urgent needs of Least Development Countries which are moving towards their implementation phase now.

Fortunately, we now have a President, a Speaker of the House and other congressional leaders, a White House Science Advisor and other key appointees who do understand how urgent action on climate is.

Given the increasingly urgent need for courageous action to fight climate change and the environmental and human injustices that it causes (climate justice), we now require a new level of congregational engagement.

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.

A team led by former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern concluded that the need for action was urgent, that acting now will be much cheaper than not acting, and that it is the only way to protect future economic growth in all countries.

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.

Now, we don't recommend it, because we think that people's iPhones are really important to them, and you never can tell when something is so urgent, and our actions were all in service of the user.