Sen. Tim Wirth Discusses MDGs
Access to clean and affordable cooking solutions is critical to fostering lasting social and economic development and to achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals.
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, an initiative led by the United Nations Foundation, is helping to achieve the MDGs by helping to end poverty and hunger, improve gender equality and child health, and contribute to environmental sustainability.
UN Foundation President, Timothy E. Wirth, recently gave a keynote address on increasing energy access for the poor. Watch his speech below.