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But in the years since, progress has been so slow that even some of the world's most well-known environmentalists are now calling for a rethink, the New York Times reports.
"It's time for the international community to wake up to the fact that climate change is real, it's happening, and it's not going to go away," said Evangeline Lilly, the Oscar-winning actress and executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
"It's not going to go away, and it's not going to go away for good," she said last week in Bangkok, Thailand, where she's taking part in the 10th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development.
The forum, organized by the UN's Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, aims to chart the region's path toward the goals, which include reducing greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the effects of global warming, providing access to safe drinking water, and improving the lives of the planet's poorest people, among other things.
Selected Grant News Headlines
When Adenike Ogunlesi made her children's PJs, she didn't think much about how she'd use the moneyor how she'd spend it.
Instead, she thought about how she could make a positive impact on the...more
Today is World Creativity and Innovation Day, which is meant to raise awareness about the role creativity and innovation play in human development.
To that end, the Jehovah's Witnesses' official...more
It's a "rare and risky move" to call out a fellow doctor's work, but that's what plastic surgeons in Utah are doing after allegations of over-treating children with cleft palates, ProPublica...more
It's not every day you get the chance to meet Lufthansa executives, but that's exactly what happened in Thailand last week.
The German airline's 200 or so execs visited the Child Protection and...more
When a 4-year-old girl in Janesville, Wis., was diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth last year, her parents didn't know what to do.
They didn't know how to get her out of her car, and they didn't...more
"In the face of a profound mental health crisis among our nation's young people and persistent gaps in care, the need for game-changing solutions is dire," Joan Steinberg, president of the Morgan...more
When Leelanau County's Patricia Soutas-Little became "gravely concerned" about the lack of infant and toddler child care in her community, she and an all-volunteer band of residents set out to...more
The town of Park Rapids, Minn., is trying to use $300,000 in federal grant money to clean up its image.
The Twin Cities Pioneer Press reports the town is applying for a grant from the Department...more
"Someone won't die without an ear, but there's something significant about living with that malformation," says Mai Thy Truong, a pediatric otolaryngologist at Stanford Medicine.
She's referring...more
"It demonstrates effective teaching methods, integrated classes, and local collaborations can significantly uplift educational prospects for refugee children."
That's the takeaway from a new...more
Youths in the Middle East deal with the world’s social problems such as high youth unemployment rates. As a solution, some are creating new businesses with a social purpose, such as tackling environmental issues, illiteracy or health, while also spurring job creation.