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Happy New Year! Each January, I like to write a letter to friends and partners of the Foundationto reflect a...nd look forward to what's in store for the upcoming year.
I hope you will take a moment to read my full 2016 letter here on our blog.
2015 was a historic year for the United Nations and for global cooperation, from the Financing for Developmen t action agenda to the adoption of the Sustainabl e Developmen t Goals to the landmark climate agreement.
Each of these moments was a testament to the power of global cooperation in a time when the challenges we face -- from swelling refugee population s to violent extremism to persistent inequality and a changing environmen t -- defy borders and demand collaborat ion, challenges for which the UN is singularly and increasing ly essential.
Read the letter
In 2015, we embraced a new future. In 2016, we must move from bold vision to meaningfulaction.
This year, we will see many significant shifts in our landscape. UN Member States will select a new Secretary- General, U.S. citizens will elect a new President, and we all will begin the urgent task of implementi ng the global goals for sustainabl e developmen t and the historic climate agreement reached in Paris. We are in a new era of developmen t that increasing ly understand s the need to break down silos, find fresh approaches , and fully engage all sectors.
Click here to read the rest of the letter -- and get ready to help the UN build a better world in 2016.
Thanks for everythingyou do to power this movement. All the best for a brilliant year!
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Kathy Calvin
President and CEO
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5starAim
The project aims to promote improve stove to minimize the use of firewood that results better health, economy and en...vironment for the community.
Objectives
• Decrease the pressure on tea garden trees/timber
• Environment friendly improved cook stove production and disseminat ion among the tea garden workers
• Decrease the pressure on organic fuel/timber
• Protect women community from unusual sufferingsmake from traditiona l stoves
• Create employmentopportunit y in the tea garden areas preferably women
• Promote and propagate the use of improve cook stoves in the tea garden community
• protect and save forestry specially hilly or hillock forest by using improve stove
• To reduce carbon emission
• Awareness raising among the community on improve cook stoves
Rationale:
Community people those are living in tea garden directly and indirectlydepend on tea garden trees or forest for fuel. Henceforth day by day decrease the forest or forests become deforest. Improve cook stove save fuel around 80% then traditiona l cook stove. To reduce the pressure on tea garden trees and social forest improve stove must necessary in this localities .
Importanceof Improved cook stove than traditiona l stove
• More than 80% timber would be saved
• Kitchen will remain neat and clean
• Smoke and dirty waste will not create
• Environment of Kitchen will remain clean See More
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In 75 countries, a relationship with someone of the same sex is a crime. Read more about why we stand with United Nations Free & Equal, and #WhyWeFight.
On Tuesday, June 7, the President of the General Assembly is holding informal dialogues with new candidates for UN Secretary-General. Tune in at webtv.un.org starting at 11am ET.
Here's what you need to know about selecting the next Secretary-General.
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1 in 6—roughly 100 million—children globally are underfed and underweight. Read Lauren Bush Lauren's story on how motherhood has changed the way she understands food, hunger, and shaped her role as the CEO of FEED Projects. Share, like, or comment on this #GlobalMoms story and #JNJ will donate $1 (up to $350,000) to five organizations supporting moms and children, including UNICEF USA.
"But most important of all I believe is the role of education in getting individuals to not just know facts and figures, but to think. To think for themselves, to work things out for themselves, to do more than regurgitate information that has been fed to them in school, at home, in the workplace, in politics."
