Sentences with phrase «urgent threat of»

Most obviously, activists of both stripes understand the urgent threat of climate change and want to reduce carbon emissions.

From November 28th through December 9th, the world's nations are meeting again to discuss solutions to the urgent threat of rising greenhouse gas emissions, this time in Durban, South Africa.

Instead, Chairman Smith seeks governmental «oversight» over UCS's exercise of our core First Amendment right to petition the government to take action on the urgent threat of climate change,» said Ken Kimmell, the president of UCS.

«In the face of rapidly expanding energy demand and the increasingly urgent threat of climate change, we are continuing to respond to the energy system as it evolves rather than actively managing its transformation,» Didier Houssin, IEA's director of sustainable energy policy and technology, said yesterday at the report's launch.

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But the threat of American VCs poaching Canadian startups is not as urgent as it once was.

Abe asked for a new mandate to deal with the growing threat from North Korea and said it is urgent that Japan's social security system be rebalanced in order to cope with the growing number of retirees.

The urgent threat climate change poses to Sri Lanka's people is certainly one of Giri's central motivations.

Why: When there is an urgent threat to the life of the mother or the baby, a cesarean can be a life - saving intervention.

The urgent threats that Trump and State Senate Republicans pose to millions of New Yorkers demand that he to do so right now,» the WFP said.

«Honestly, with urgent threats to flight safety, including the Senate bill approved today that strips pilot training requirements, and the legislation that is on the verge of taking health coverage away from people who desperately need it we have much bigger concerns than the President's outrageous tweets,» his spokesperson Theresa Kennedy said.

Dissenting justice campaigners, legal aid lawyers and those who've witnessed the rot setting in (from swingeing legal aid cuts, curbs to judicial review, an interpreting service in freefall, probation chaos and threats to withdraw Britain from the Human Rights Act) will be highlighting the urgent need to halt the destruction of our justice system and abide by the principles of the medieval charter.

The urgent threats that Trump and State Senate Republicans pose to millions of New Yorkers demand that he to do so right now,» said Bill Lipton, state director of the labor - backed Working Families Party, which has a fraught history with Cuomo.

Wakawa described cannabis cultivation as a major threat to food security, peace and development in the state, and appealed for the urgent intervention of leaders at all levels.

As the need to deal with the threat of climate change becomes ever more urgent, they're also a vital source of diversity and renewables in our energy mix.

They argued that, the principle of separation of powers was under threat and there was urgent need to put things in the right perspectives.

Like other panelists during the event, Horton called for urgent action on climate change because of the grave threat it poses.

In a warming world, the threat of such «glacial lake outburst floods» is becoming increasingly urgent.

K. pneumoniae sequence type 258 (ST258) is one of the Carbapenem - Resistant Enterobacteriaceae organisms labeled an urgent threat by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae as one of the three most urgent threats among emerging forms of antibiotic - resistant disease.

«The threat of invasive species is perhaps our most urgent economic and conservation challenge.»

Recently, the UD team found that when rice plants are subjected to multiple threats — including increasing concentrations of poisonous arsenic in water and soil, an urgent concern in Southeast Asia, plus a fungal disease called rice blast — the plants aren't necessarily goners.

We believed there was an urgent threat to public health, and no one else seemed to be doing anything to help the citizens of Flint.

Now that climate change poses an even more urgent threat to the endangered tortoise, biologists have a controversial plan to safeguard its future — by moving it to new sites outside of its known historical range.

The threat of future nerve agent attacks is spurring urgent efforts to find better countermeasures, with several promising compounds in the pipeline.

The results suggest an urgent need for management recommendations to reduce the threat of emerging diseases to our wild and managed bees.

«The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently classified these carbapenem - resistant organisms in their highest, most urgent antimicrobial resistance threat level,» said James Kirby, MD, Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at BIDMC and an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School.

Carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), which include Klebsiella, were listed as one of the top three urgent antibiotic resistant threats in 2013 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The threat of climate change means that there is an urgent need to find cleaner, renewable alternatives to fossil fuels that do not contribute extensive amounts of greenhouse gases with potentially devastating consequences on our ecosystem.

, writing that «in the face of urgent threats like climate change, there are times where companies like Google must display moral leadership and carefully evaluate their political bedfellows.»

The main objective of the event was to draw attention to the environmental threats posed by human behavior and stress the urgent need for a change of attitude, turning towards sustainable practices.

Probably the most serious and urgent challenge faced by the physical world now is the threat of climate change.

URGENT: Due to the threat of hazardous road conditions we will be CANCELLING & RESCHEDULING the January 18, 2018 SCPCSD board meeting for a later date...

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.

That so many of us are here today is a recognition that the threat from climate change is serious, it is urgent, and it is growing.

Moreover, we must face up to this urgent and unprecedented threat to the existence of our civilization at a time when our country must simultaneously solve two other worsening crises.

Addressing the overall threat thus appears to demand not the dismissal of the feedbacks as a minor secondary concern but their citing as justification for the urgent agreement of a protocol within the emissions control treaty for the stringent supervision of geo - engineering research by a mandated scientific agency.

The Commission added other conditions: countries should only subsidise coal and gas power capacity where there was an urgent need, such as a threat of blackouts, it said.

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

The National Academy of Sciences specifically called for a carbon tax on fossil fuels or a cap - and - trade system for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, calling global warming an urgent threat.

The threat of continued climate change is so urgent,

The threat of continued climate change is so urgent, more than 170 world leaders have signed the Paris climate agreement to dramatically cut their greenhouse gas emissions in the future and transition towards a clean energy economy.

The environmental threats and economic costs of continued reliance on fossil fuel technologies are sufficiently urgent to warrant substantially larger public support in the form of private - sector R&D incentives and a refocusing of effort by the national energy laboratories on the development and diffusion of alternative energy technologies.

The most urgent environmental threat to Canadians isn't climate change, the declining health of our oceans, or the extinction of species.

Based on Lester Brown's latest book, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, this presentation highlights just a few of the most urgent threats to our global food supply and the trends that created them.

It is one in which through our collective efforts, we forestall the most urgent threats to the survival of whales.

The report says global climate change is projected to produce «insufficient water supplies, shifting rainfall patterns, disruptions to agriculture, human migrations, more failing states, increased extremism, and even resource wars,» all of which pose an urgent threat that must be addressed in national security policy.

In an era where climate degradation seems an increasingly dangerous threat, understanding the biological dimensions of our climate is an urgent issue.

Map national vulnerabilities in detail and apply the «climate test»: There is an urgent need to develop detailed maps of the complex impacts of global warming, integrating climate - change - related risks with other threats.

Although mainstream green groups are sometimes surprised to find religious groups joining them at the table, Alonso says that's essential in an era of urgent threats to God's creation: «We need all hands on deck.»

The Democrats are of the mind that human - caused climate change is one of the major problems facing the country / world today, describing it as «an urgent threat and a defining challenge of our time.»