Sentences with phrase «urgent global action»

«India's leadership builds on the continued strong political momentum from Paris for urgent global action on climate change,» the U.N. spokesman's office said in a statement.

COP18 / CMP8 entered the crucial phase of climate change negotiations on Day 9 with world leaders issuing a clarion call for urgent global action at the opening of the High Level Segment of the conference.

Only urgent global action on climate change can halt that.

Not exact matches

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.»

In the light of the crash in global crude oil price, which is Nigeria's main foreign exchange earner, the devastating actions of aggrieved militants on oil and gas infrastructure in the oil - rich Niger Delta which has resulted in lock - in or leakages of crude oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the government.

The government has called for urgent international action to tackle climate change, after a new United Nations report found «unequivocal» evidence for global warming.

«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 EU holds firmly to the commonly agreed objective of keeping the global mean temperature increase below 2ºC,» the bloc's diplomats wrote, calling for «urgent actions» to help countries meet their Copenhagen pledges and close that gap.

Writing in Current Climate Change Reports, they conclude that, the most urgent course of action is to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, but concurrently there is also a need to consider novel management techniques and previously over-looked reef areas for protective actions under predicted climate change impacts.

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 EFA Global Monitoring Report, UNESCO and UNGEI call for urgent action to combat school - related gender - based violence NEW YORK, 10 March 2015 — Gender - based violence in school settings is having a damaging impact on the education of millions of children across the world according to a new paper released today at the Commission on the -LSB-...]

Published in collaboration with Patrick Bingham - Hall, WOHA's Garden City Mega City, is a plea for urgent action to rethink, re-plan and remediate the world's mega cities for the age of global warming.

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.

Live Updates below «Worse than we thought» has been one of the most durable phrases lately among those pushing for urgent action to stem the buildup of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

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:

Without urgent action, we could face threats to water, food, biodiversity and other critical resources: these threats risk intensifying economic, ecological and social crises, creating the potential for a humanitarian emergency on a global scale.

«THE belief that Global Warming is an existential threat, requiring urgent action is the product of a dumbed - down education system.

Broecker told CNN most people still don't recognize the magnitude of the task the world faces in reducing global carbon emissions, and it was likely that one day urgent action would need to be taken, above and beyond the current measures being discussed.

Climate Reality's mission is to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every level of society.

It laments the increasing lack of public, political and media attention to environmental issues, especially at a time when some very crucial ones, like global warming, need urgent action.

The Guardian, July 2, 2008 has a headline: «Climate more urgent than economy, say voters», followed by an article which starts: «Voters think that taking action against climate change matters more than tackling the global economic downturn, according to a Guardian / ICM poll published today.

The current negotiating text for Rio +20 does not fully and explicitly recognise the urgent need to act on climate change as part of a global action plan for delivering sustainable development.

«It is time to show bolder vision, innovation and urgent action - in global efforts and domestically - building on the clear momentum we are seeing in our societies and economies already.

The Commonwealth declaration avoided setting a numerical limit to global temperature rise, saying only, «We stress our common conviction that urgent and substantial action to reduce global emissions is needed and have a range of views as to whether average global temperature increase should be constrained to below 1.5 degrees or to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.»

Q2 Isn't the * MAIN * action - item of Steven E. Koonin's essay, an urgent mandate for * MORE * global - scale observational programs — good on «yah, Deep Argo!

Denmark's prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said if the world wants to limit increase in average global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius, then both developed and developing nations have to take urgent action and that poverty alleviation or development goals can not be tackled without addressing climate change.

The global challenges of climate change and energy security require urgent action.

The World Bank called for urgent action on climate change on Sunday after it released a report that examined the economic, ecological and human impacts that a 7.2 °F rise in global temperature would have on the world's population... Read More

What it does for me is to make me support even less any calls for urgent and draconian action on global warming.

At ClimateCare we firmly believe that taking urgent action to halt climate change is the most central tenet of progressing towards the UN's Global Goals.

Their mission is to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every level of society.

Prof. Hulme himself believes that there is at least some man - made global warming, and in the 1990s was a major advocate of urgent action (see here for his summary of the evolution of his thoughts on «climate change»).

The debate is sort of encapsulated in two quotes: One is Robert Kennedy Jr. saying that if people only had the facts about global warming and understood how urgent this issue was, then they would take action, the right policies would come up and people would support the right candidates.

Catalyze immediate, urgent and drastic emission reductions: «In line with what science and equity require, deliver urgent short - term actions, building towards a long - term goal that is agreed in Paris, that shift us away from dirty energy, marking the beginning of the end of fossil fuels globally, and that keep the global temperature goal in reach.»

The University of Earth, Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Dr Georg Kaser of Innsbruck University, an expert in glaciers and global warming, explains the uncertainty calculation, a scientific tool needed to gather reliable results, and anthropogenic forcing, which is a change in the Earth's energy balance due to human economic activities.

[1] Throughout his term in office, President Obama consistently has said that policy action to combat man - made global warming is imperative and urgent.

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.

In decision 1 / CP.21, the commitments from all actors are recognized, including those launched through the Lima — Paris Action Agenda, as well as the urgent need to scale up the global response to climate change and support greater ambition from governments.

Holdren, 64, is a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington who has pushed for more urgent action on global warming.

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.

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.

14 years ago (when they started tweaking all the numbers) global warmers said if we didn't take urgent action we were headed off a cliff.

It should shock the world into taking urgent action to reduce global emissions.

Millions of dollars spent on scientific research comes to the same conclusions our elders warned us of years ago — that «Combatting climate change is an urgent common challenge for the international community and requires immediate global action».

We are in a good position to transform the global energy system but success will depend on urgent action, as delays will raise the costs of decarbonization.

We can't afford to be distracted from the need for urgent action to combat global warming — rich countries must lead the way by agreeing to slash their emissions when they meet in Copenhagen next month.

The bigger issue, according to Bhushan, is that, despite repeated IPCC reports calling for urgent action to stem global warming beyond the tipping point, «global action on climate change is not going anywhere».

Al Gore's global warming movie, «An Inconvenient Truth,» aims to call attention to the dangers society faces from climate change, and suggests urgent actions that need to be taken immediately.

Former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern said in October that urgent action on global warming was vital and that delay would multiply the cost by up to 20 times.