The Clinton Global Initiative is an opportunity for the world's wealthy to make philanthropic commitments, and in that spirit, Obama used his appearance by satellite today to make his own four "commitments" on the Clinton Foundation's priorities of climate, poverty, education, and global health:
1. An 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, with a cap and trade program. A $150 billion investment over 10 years in alternative energy. "We need to do more than drill."
2. Embrace Millennium Development goals that aim to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015.
3. Work to erase the global primary education gap by 2015. Establish a $2 billion global education fund. Sign Hillary Clinton's "Education for All" act.
4. Continue to support and step up PEPFAR, President Bush's AIDS program. End all deaths from malaria by 2015 through a focus on prevention on treatment. Meet the demand for $730 million bed nets and invest in research for new vaccines. Make low-cost drugs available everywhere.
--Dana Goldstein
