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CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE took place in New York recently. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTONled the impressive 3-day conference attended by more than 1,000 participants at the Sheraton Hotel. PRESIDENT CLINTON called for >action and he got it. This forum's purpose is for the attendees to develop concrete policies and implement solutions to the world's most challenging problems, with concrete commitments to pledge monetary support to specific plans.
The group focused on four main tops: Poverty, Climate Change; Religion and Enhancing governance.
In attendance for the religion seminar was QUEEN RANIA AL-ABDULLAH, Queen of the Royal Hasemite Kingdom of Jordan, and the Honorable Richard C. Holbrooke, Ambassador to the UN, and President and CEO, Global Business Coalition on HIv/AIDS.

The panel was emceed by George Stephanopoulos, anchor ABC News.

Her majesty discussed the role of women in Islam and spoke about promoting interfaith cooperation "Leaders must become more proactive", she said. "There
must be educational exchanges between the East and West; It is important to teach the children first."
At the end of the panel discussion, the attendees were asked to come up with the solutions which were:
Arts Projects, Interfaith Sports, CyberChurches, Seeds of Peace Festivals A highlight at the luncheon was Vice-President Al Gore, now Chairman, Generation Investment Management who spoke about global warming- speaking about the species and the planet, he warned "we are in great danger"
Secretary General Kofi Annan closed the conference with a call for human rites.

Some commitments already pledged are: World Bicycle Relief for bicycle distribution in Sri Lanka, Chicago Climate Exchange - Greenhouse Gas Reduction = 2 million from InterSolar and Climate Institute, Washington for Climate Change Observation Center in Mexico - 15 million from World Corps in Interational franchised "social business".

posted by Demetria at 12:46 PM