Former President Bill Clinton speaks to a reporter Monday, Sept. 18, 2006, in New York. Bill Clinton says he can't get as much done as an ex-president as he could when he was president. But he insists private citizens can do more to change the world than at any time in the past. (AP Photo)Sept 22, 2006
Former US President Bill Clinton's global initiative conference wound up in New York on Friday with 215 commitments from companies, governments and non-profit groups totalling $7.3bn, nearly three times its inaugural 2005 level.
The pledges mostly concentrated on the four themes of the fight against global warming, disease, poverty and religious conflict. They varied from Rupert Murdoch and the singer Barbra Streisand jointly backing an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a planned future summit between African women to Sir Richard Branson's $3bn promise over a decade to reinvest proceeds from his transport groups into alternative fuels.
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