Sentences with phrase «urging global leaders»

Catholic groups are urging global leaders to reach a deal on climate change this year.

Speaking at the London Malaria Summit on Wednesday, he urged global leaders to unite in fighting the ancient...

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Leading mining lawyer Michael Blakiston has criticised Premier Colin Barnett's comments urging African mining leaders not to be intimidated by global mining companies and to ensure their citizens received a fair return for their resource exploitation.

Byanyima blamed «tax dodging» as a major cause of global inequality and urged leaders to clamp down on tax havens and plough money into education, healthcare and jobs for young people.

The U.S. Chamber's Global Energy Institute has joined a broad coalition to send a letter to Senate and House leaders urging them to preserve the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program for nuclear energy.

As world leaders prepare to head to the climate conference (COP21) in Paris, Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney have written to David Cameron urging him to include meat reduction in the new global climate agreement.

Mr Brown, speaking at Harvard University, where he is a visiting fellow, urged world leaders to set out global rules for regulating banking practice and securing jobs and growth.

As a result, 10 prominent scientists have written a letter to President Bush and other government leaders urging them to «shape policies to assure that government incentives for biofuels do not increase global warming.»

A call to action issued today by AAAS and a broad coalition of CEOs and other organizations urges Congress to enact policies and make investments that ensure the United States remains the global innovation leader.

As world leaders mobilize resources to combat a global financial crisis, international - development experts are urging similar action to tackle the education challenges facing many poor countries.

Mazza, who urges educators to consider what they can learn from the resurgence of podcasts and the global popularity of «Serial,» explains, «There are some windows of opportunities for educator and leader development with the rise of mobile technologies.

Business urged to push school reform Quality grads will aid state in global market, leaders say (Phoenix) Arizona Republic

During a panel discussion with senior global leaders at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Symposium «Advancing Food and Nutrition Security at the G8 Summit» in Washington, Jeff Simmons urged leaders to take action now to address the challenge of developing more efficient food production systems and pressed for policy alternatives that provide long - term, sustainable solutions to hunger, food inflation and food availabglobal leaders at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Symposium «Advancing Food and Nutrition Security at the G8 Summit» in Washington, Jeff Simmons urged leaders to take action now to address the challenge of developing more efficient food production systems and pressed for policy alternatives that provide long - term, sustainable solutions to hunger, food inflation and food availabGlobal Affairs Symposium «Advancing Food and Nutrition Security at the G8 Summit» in Washington, Jeff Simmons urged leaders to take action now to address the challenge of developing more efficient food production systems and pressed for policy alternatives that provide long - term, sustainable solutions to hunger, food inflation and food availability.

But NGOs hope the U.S. leader will make a different decision, urging the Obama Administration in the letter to take active leadership in protecting and restoring the world's oceans, in the global transition to a green economy, and in moving forward new international norms on safeguard the environment and promoting human rights.

Scientists, environmental leaders and hundreds of thousands of citizens across the country had urged the president to take action to protect critical habitat from oil spills, to aid the transition to a clean energy future and to help the United States meet the carbon reduction goals necessary to avert the worst effects of global climate change.

At the meeting yesterday, the United Nations secretary - general, Ban Ki - moon, and Nobel prize winner Al Gore urged more than 500 business leaders — including the chief executives of PepsiCo, Nestlé and BP — to lend their corporate muscle to reaching a global deal on reducing greenhouse gases.

Major global insurance companies are urging G20 leaders to commit to a specific timeline for rapidly phasing out fossil fuel subsidies — something they've repeatedly failed to do over the years despite numerous promises to end support for the industry.

As California lawmakers prepare to launch the state's cap and trade program as part of its Global Warming Solutions Act, or AB32, indigenous leaders traveled to Sacramento to urge officials not to include an international forest - based carbon offset mechanism, known as REDD, in the law.

A climate researcher for decades, he had long been in the midst of political and scientific debates over global warming, tirelessly urging political leaders and the public to take action now to avoid disasters such as rising sea levels in the future.

Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe welcome this historic achievement by the global community, and urges EU leaders to immediately turn their attention to the necessary steps that now need to be taken to live up to the objectives of the agreement.

NRDC helped urge President Obama to sign the agreement in September 2016, making the United States — the world's second - largest carbon polluter — a global leader on climate action.

After years of demanding little action on global warming, voters could suddenly and angrily urge their leaders to shower government aid on the farmers, coast - dwellers and other populations suffering under the effects of a changing climate.

On September 23, world leaders convened in New York City for the UN Climate Summit, where UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon urged governments to support an ambitious global agreement to dramatically reduce emissions and catalyze climate action.

To say that environmentalists and the «global leaders» urging action on climate change lack a sense of proportion is an understatement.

So, given today's global climate of distrust, I urge business leaders to understand how valuable it can be for you to simply be yourself in building a trusting and fulfilled workplace.

After participating in another «Global Leadership Summit (2014)» held in Barrington Illinois, Sandra is encouraged and urges ethical leaders who support this mission of advocacy and strong protection of innocent children, to take on this endeavor with the purest and greatest of motives.