Clinton Global Initiative by Claudia Sonea

It's amazing how problems and sorrows can bring people together. This year Clinton Global Initiative conference succeeded to reunite people from everywhere, no matter their political views (liberal, conservative), if they are famous or not, therefore world leaders, celebrities and scholars attended it. This is a foundation established by Bill Clinton, former US President, in 2005 approaching issues like: health security; economic empowerment; leadership development and citizen service; racial, ethnic and religious reconciliation. The purpose is not only to debate them, but also to implement innovative solutions and the participants must make a commitment for one of the pressuring issue and CGI staff will then monitories his progress throughout the year. They also have to pay a $15,000 registration fee and are expected to dedicate time or money to the problems discussed. As a proof that politics differences can be overcome by more important problems, Gore and Clinton had a nice encounter and both tries to be as friendly as possible; the first one congratulated Bill for his life-story book, while the latter one praised the environmental activism of the other. Gore had appealed to world leaders at the United Nations conference on Monday to take immediate actions to the long list of global warming's impacts. Moreover on Wednesday he said that there are needed new laws, new policies and a new treaty. The first two conferences brought a 10 billion fond for the world's causes. This year new commitments were made, Brad Pitt announced that 150 affordable green homes in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, will be built by the end of the year, while his partner, actress Angelina Jolie, who co-chairs Education Partnership for Children of Conflict too a commitment in helping to educate more than 1 million children around the world. The other good news come from the Florida Power & Light that usually creates plants very polutting for the environment, as a $2.4 billion clean energy program (a $150 million promise from CARE, a humanitarian organization, and $271 million from BRAC, a Bangladesh nonprofit) a solar power plant will be built. This year former Prime Minister Tony Blair, tennis star Andre Agassi and media mogul Rupert Murdoch participated among other 50 current and former leaders of the world and were on the conference guest list. Despite the fortunate cases there were five people whose registration fees were refused due to the fact they did not fulfill their promises, according to Clinton spokesman Ben Yarrow. So it's not only a simple talk that takes place at the conference, people are willing to make a difference and who knows they might even change the world. Let's support them in any way we can, sometimes a pray can do miracles. Enjoy!

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070926/ap_on_re_us/clinton_global_initiative;_ylt=AmVVDbb1zL7kDU9jM58CtGWs0NUE

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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