Sentences with phrase «urgent need for action»

In the first of a three - part series on #JustJustice issues in Victoria, Marie McInerney investigates the urgent need for action to address the rising rates of Aboriginal women going to prison, the majority of whom have experienced family violence.

Unfortunately... no such event has hit the US of A. And so people remain unaware of the growing urgent need for action.

Having said that, writing as a person who — thanks to the work of climate scientists — already «gets it», and already understands the urgent need for action, it does seem to me that developments like the permafrost study are telling us what we already know:

Sessoms» concern echoed testimony on June 18 from four Republican former EPA Administrators before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the urgent need for action on climate change.

«In light of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and its worsening impacts, and the related issue of air pollution from burning fossil fuels, the United States and China recognize the urgent need for action to meet these twin challenges,» the countries said in the statement.

The strategy identifies three priority areas that match calls for international guidance, the urgent need for action at a national level on climate change and the organization's skill set, experience and mandate.

The UN Summit on Climate Change, convened this week in New York by Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon, brought together more than 100 heads of state and dignitaries to tackle the urgent need for action and to mobilize real

Treading Water does not draw overt political or cultural conclusions, but it does hope to promote a dialogue recognizing the urgent need for action.

The report's ranking of Quebec as the «best province to be an animal abuser» underscores the urgent need for action.

Through these efforts, the Institute has been able to launch a new initiative for films and emerging media projects exploring stories related to the urgent need for action with regard to the environment, conservation and climate change.

It clearly shows that the rate of sprawl is increasing, and confirms there is an urgent need for action,» says Jaeger.

In the wake of the recent tragedy, said Squadron, there's an urgent need for action on the legislation.

Meeting the world's future food and nutritional needs in a sustainable way presents critical development challenges, underscoring the urgent need for action to enhance production while minimizing the environmental footprint of rice systems and their vulnerability to climate change.

Not exact matches

Essentially, the «financing ecosystem» needed for the development and survival of technology firms in Canada is broken, and urgent action is required.

Populorum Progressio, the pope notes, «repeatedly underlines the urgent need for reform, and in the face of great problems of injustice in the development of peoples, it calls for courageous action to be taken without delay.»

Pope Francis presents a call to action in Laudato Si, writing «All of this shows the urgent need for us to move forward in a bold cultural revolution.»

They also emphasize the need for urgent action in solidarity with the poor and oppressed people in our land.

To be consonant with the Word of God, philosophy needs first of all to recover its sapiential dimension as a search for... the ultimate framework of the unity of human knowledge and action, leading them to converge towards a final goal and meaning (para. 81)... to verify the human capacity... to come to a knowledge which can reach objective truth (para. 82)... Hence we face a great challenge at the end of this millennium to move from phenomenon to foundation, a step as necessary as it is urgent.

Thus, we see a claim which makes sense of all the martyrdoms of our time: Martyrs today no longer die explicitly for Jesus Christ nor for the freedom of the Spirit as was the case in the first two periods we had considered, but they die for human justice, i.e., an urgent new action is needed to defend those who are overwhelmed by the weight of totalitarianism.

«I have asked for there to be an urgent independent investigation into what action was taken when these allegations were first received and what more needs to be done to ensure that British sport remains clean.

«Contrary to your suggestion that I have acted prematurely, I am even more convinced of the need for very decisive and urgent action on the part of the Trust to comply with all your obligations and remedy the serious failings at the school.»

This report from Medecins Sans Frontieres makes for grim and sober reading: it is clear that the situation facing vulnerable asylum seekers on Lesbos is increasingly precarious, and that urgent action is needed.

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.

We need to see urgent action to improve the tax incentives for North Sea oil investment.

Ron Campbell, Chief Policy and Research Analyst for National Energy Action said: «The original UK Fuel Poverty Strategy was described as «representing the start of the road to the end of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map».

«Audits and information gathering are all very well, but they are no substitute for the urgent action which is needed to tackle the deep injustices rife in the system.»

Audits and information gathering are all very well, but they are no substitute for the urgent action which is needed

The board also supported the decision and supported Bharucha in a statement, saying the financial situation of the school when he arrived was «not of his making and he deserves credit for sounding the alarm about the need to take urgent action to ensure Cooper Union's long - term financial sustainability.»

The urgent need for policy and action to tackle and prevent abuse of women and girls could not be more obvious.

«We would want to bring to the attention of his Excellency the President that our action was not meant to create a bad image for him and our beloved NDC party but to bring to his attention an urgent need to visit us since we miss him in Ashaiman and needed to see him.»

A report originally commissioned by Gordon Brown - and updated for the coalition government - said «urgent action» was needed to protect the postal service.

Led by scientists from Chile's Universidad Andres Bello (UNAB), NGO Ranita de Darwin, and international conservation charity ZSL (Zoological Society of London), working alongside the University of Zurich, this new revelation highlights a need for urgent conservation action.

«There is an urgent clinical need for new treatments for depression with novel mechanisms of action.

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.

They argue that «the evidence of adverse effects is incontrovertible, as is the need for urgent action» and say «political action has failed to respond to the challenge that the science presents.»

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.

Dr Ralph Holme, Head of Biomedical Research at Action on Hearing Loss, the only UK charity dedicated to funding research into hearing loss said: «There is an urgent need for effective treatments to prevent hearing loss — a condition that affects 10 million people in the UK and all too often isolates people from friends and family.

As such, there is an urgent need for government action to combat the illegal use of clenbuterol in livestock farming worldwide.

Affirm the need for urgent collective action to conserve snow leopards and their fragile habitats;

More generally, there is an urgent need for government action to ban glyphosate in order to protect our population from harm.

There is an urgent and ongoing need for more information and education that can help youth activists, especially novices, make informed choices as they participate in upcoming actions.

The report «Asbestos in Schools - The need for action» exposes the level of danger in Britain's schools, and makes a compelling case for urgent action.

• Run a SWOT analysis (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) to demonstrate the need for urgent action (e.g., students won't succeed in college without the ability to self - direct).

Figures released today by the Joint Union Asbestos Committee (JUAC) in conjunction with the campaigner Lucie Stephens and Rachel Reeves MP, reveal the shocking disparity in asbestos management across Multi Academy Trusts (MATs) and reinforce the need for the Government to take urgent action.

«There is an urgent need for E-Act to take action to tackle underperformance in a relatively large number of academies in the trust and to ensure that pupils» achievement rises to a good standard.»

«Contrary to your suggestion that I have acted prematurely, I am even more convinced of the need for very decisive and urgent action on the part of the trust to comply with all your obligations and remedy the serious failings at the school.»

Business organisation the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has also pointed to the Pisa rankings as showing the need for urgent action to improve children's literacy.

Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said urgent action was needed to tackle to the crisis, and blamed Mr Gove for belittling teachers and devaluing the profession.

Based on the emotional intelligence research and work from Daniel Goleman, the following quote, «A growing number of students are failing in a core subject needed for successful living: solid character,» is a urgent call for action to use Social Emotional Learning Practices in our school communities.

New Leader CEO Jean Desravines speaks on the urgent need for school improvement and the theory of action behind New Leaders» focus on school leadership at Charlotte's Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum (Part 1 & Part 2).