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Clinton Global Initiative Meeting Kicks Off, U.S. Will Commit To Clean Cookstove Project
"World leaders, CEOs, non-governmental organizations and philanthropists" are gathering this week at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting, "[t]imed to coincide with the beginning of the United Nations General Assembly," WNYC News reports (Herman, 9/20). According to the Toronto Star, "the mood was more upbeat" at CGI. Since former President Bill Clinton "launched the project five years ago, some $57 billion in pledges have been made to improve the lives of 220 million people in more than 70 countries," the article reports.
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