Climate & Energy was one of the 4 primary thematics of ClintonGlobalIntitiative 2006

The other 3 (tabled in more details in lower posts) were
Global Health
Poverty Alleviation
Mitigating Religious & Ethnic Conflict

The primary intitaive of the Climate & Enegy stream was the 3 billion dollar investment announced by Sir Richard Branson (google all news)

The Panel for this stream were:
Chair
David Sandalow
Director, Environment and Energy Project, Foreign Policy Studies
The Brookings Institution

Advisory Board

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

The Honorable Carol Browner
Principal
The Albright Group LLC

Linda Fisher
Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer
Dupont

Dr. José Goldemberg
Secretary for the Environment
State of Sao Paulo

The Honorable Yoriko Kawaguchi
Member of the House of Councillors

Vinod Khosla
Partner
Khosla Ventures

Fred Krupp
President
Environmental Defense

Jonathon Lash
President
World Resources Institute

Dr. R.K. Pachauri
Director-General
The Energy and Resources Institute Chairman
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Larry Page
Co-Founder and President, Products
Google, Incorporated

William Reilly
President and CEO
Aqua International Partners LP

Björn Stigson
President
World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Further readings were:
Global Clean Energy Investment Overview: Trends and Issues in the Financing of Renewable and Low Carbon Technology >
Stabilizing Climate >
Climate Change: Defining Technological Opportunities and Spreading Innovation >
Solving the Climate Problem, Technologies Available to Curb CO2 Emissions >

sessions were:
Session 1:
Saving Energy
(Wednesday, September 20 at 1:30 PM)

This session will explore the quickest and easiest way to fight global warming – by stopping energy waste. Around the world, hundreds of companies large and small are prospering by finding innovative ways to save energy. Many senior executives report finding, to their astonishment, that opportunities for cutting costs by saving energy have been ignored for years due to lack of information or attention. Energy-efficient products are often the most successful in the marketplace. At the same time, countless communities are finding strategies for saving energy while improving quality of life. Traffic congestion programs, clean buses and new “green building” technologies are but a few of the tools for doing so. This session will examine leading success stories, barriers to their replication and specific actions that can promote widespread energy savings today.

Session 2:
Buying and Selling Renewable Energy
(Thursday, Sptember 21 at 9:30 AM)

This session will explore specific steps for expanding the use of renewable energy. Already, markets for renewable electric power and renewable transportation fuels are exploding around the world. In China, solar entrepreneurs are amassing fortunes. In northern Europe, wind power provides more than 20% of the electricity. In Brazil, ethanol from sugar cane provides more than 40% of liquid fuels. In the United States, the ethanol industry is growing at record rates. This session will explore successes to date, barriers to the more rapid expansion of renewable energy markets and steps needed to ensure that renewable energy is produced in sustainable ways. The session will offer practical advice for members interested in buying or selling renewable energy in the years ahead.

Session 3:
Financing a Clean Energy Future
(Thursday September 21 at 2:30 PM)

This session will explore two complementary topics. A first panel will consider the current clean energy investment boom. As investment capital rushes into alternative energy ventures, this panel will consider likely impacts on key technologies and the role of different kinds of financing in shaping a clean energy future. A second panel will consider energy poverty and how it can be overcome. Today more than a billion people around the world lack basic energy services. Leapfrogging over the dirty development paths of prior centuries while bringing energy services to people everywhere is one of our most vital challenges. Panelists will discuss the nature of the problem, possible solutions and concrete steps that can make a difference.

2006 clinton global initiative

His Majesty King Abdullah II
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah
His Majesty King Mohammed VI
President Michelle Bachelet
President Branko Crvenkovski
President Leonel Fernandez
President Vicente Fox Quesada
President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
President Armando Guebuza
President Tarja Halonen
President Paul Kagame
President Hamid Karzai
President Jakaya Kikwete
President Vaclav Klaus
President John Kufuor
President Stjepan Mesic
President Alfred Moisiu
President Evo Morales
President Pervez Musharraf
President Bingu wa Mutharika
President Olusegun Obasanjo
President Alfredo Palacio González

President Hifikepunye Pohamba
President Mahinda Rajapakse
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
President Alvaro Uribe
Prime Minister Ralph E. Gonsalves
Prime Minister NavinchandraRamgoolam
Prime Minister Michael Somare
HRH Prince Turki-al Faisal
His Highness Shaikh Salman binHamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa
Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres
Secretary-General Kofi Annan
His Excellency Martti Ahtisaari
The Honorable Hanan Ashrawi
The Right Honorable John Battle
His Excellency Kjell Magne Bondevik
The Right Honorable Gordon Brown
The Honorable Mark Malloch Brown
The Honorable Laura Bush
His Excellency Fernando HenriqueCardoso
Former President James Earl Carter,Jr.
The Honorable Hillary RodhamClinton
His Excellency Massimo D'Alema
The Honorable Jan Eliasson
His Excellency José Maria Figueres
His Excellency Cesar Gaviria
His Excellency Felipe Gonzalez

The Honorable Al Gore
The Honorable Richard C. Holbrooke
His Excellency Kenneth Kaunda
The Honorable Peter King
His Excellency Wim Kok
Her Excellency ChandrikaBandaranaike Kumaratunga
His Excellency AleksanderKwasniewski
The Right Honorable Paul Martin
His Excellency Amre Moussa
His Excellency Albert Reynolds
Her Excellency Mary Robinson
His Excellency Jorge Sampaio
The Honorable Dr. Javier Solana
His Excellency SathirathaiSurakiart
The Honorable Borys Tarasyuk
His Excellency Ernesto Zedillo
Fazle Hasan Abed
Gerry Adams
John Adams
Salman Ahmad
Dr. Jacques Aigrain
Dr. Madeleine K. Albright
Christiane Amanpour
Bradbury H. Anderson
Rocky Anderson
Robert Annibale
Susan E. Arnold

Peter Bakker
Ajay Banga
Preeta Bansal
Richard E. Belluzzo
Georgette F. Bennett, Ph.D.
Samuel R. Berger
Lee Bollinger
Sir Richard Branson
Senator John Breaux
Eli Broad
Thomas Brokaw
Carol Browner
Warren Buffett
Ron Burkle
Majora Carter
Thomas R. Casten
John Catsimatidis
John T. Chambers
Gustavo A. Cisneros
Wesley Clark
Abby Joseph Cohen
Betty Cohen
Bertrand Collomb
Alastair Crooke
Katie Couric
Dr. Nils Daulaire

Mervyn Davies
Brenda Davis
Ian Davis
Susan Davis
Dr. John DeGioia
Dr. Hernando de Soto
Paula DiPerna
Samuel A. DiPiazza
Jim Donald
William Drayton
Mark Drewell
Mark Durkan
Sarah Ehrman
Maria Eitel
Gareth Evans
Dr. Paul Farmer
Linda Fisher
Lew Frankfort
David Freeman
Thomas L. Friedman
Valentin Fuster
Bill Gates
Melinda French Gates

Helene Gayle
The Honorable Richard A. Gephardt
Julie Louise Gerberding
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Eival Gilady
John Glenn
Peter Goldmark
Tom Golisano
Hugh Grant
Vartan Gregorian
Geeta Rao Gupta
Sanjay Gupta
Vinod Gupta
Gary Hattem
Jan Hommen
Peter Hotez
Sir Tom Hunter
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Carol Jacobs
Chris Johns
Robin Johnson
Suzanne Nora Johnson
Farooq Kathwari
Ashok Khosla
Vinod Khosla
Klaus Kleinfeld

Marc Lasry
Debra Lee
Jeremy Leggett
Jaime Lerner
Amory Lovins
Charles J. Lyons
Charles MacCormack
Ira Magaziner
Susan Collin Marks
William A. McDonough
Judith McGrath
Judith McHale
Thomas McLarty
Satyan Mishra
The Honorable George Mitchell
Esteban Moctezuma Barragán
Nick Moon
John Paul Moscarella
Rupert Murdoch
Kumi Naidoo
Deng Nan
Reema Nanavaty
Andrew Natsios
Gavin Newsom
Nandan M. Nilekani
Michele Norris

Raymond C. Offenheiser, Jr.
The Honorable Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Maria Otero
Eboo Patel
Alan Patricof
Vivek Paul
Enrique Peñalosa
Kristin Peterson
The Honorable John Podesta
General Colin Powell
John Prendergast
Steven Rattner
Jonathan Reckford
Srinath Reddy
William K. Reilly
John Ridding
Julian H. Robertson, Jr.
Dr. Judith Rodin
Fabio Rosa
Dilma Vana Rousseff
Robert Edward Rubin
Haim Saban
Jeffrey Sachs
Ghassan Salame

Nizal Sarraf-Zadegan
Diane Sawyer
Peter Scaturro
Klaus Schwab
Bernard Schwartz
H. Lee Scott, Jr.
Terry S. Semel
John Sexton
Premal Shah
Donna Shalala
Walter Shorenstein
Dr. Ruth Simmons
Carlos Slim Helu
James Gustave Speth
Richard Stearns
George Stephanopoulos
Thomas Stewart
Patty Stonesifer
Sir Howard Stringer
Jeffrey Swartz
Tulsi Tanti
Andrew Tobias
Ted Turner
Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Ann M. Veneman
Zain Verjee
Melanne Verveer
Darren Walker
Cass Wheeler
Michael White
Elie Wiesel
Timothy E. Wirth
Francis Yeoh Sock Ping
Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Fareed Zakaria
Sam Zaramba
Dr. James J. Zogby

Poverty alleviation was a lead thematic of the 2006 ClintonGlobalInitiative- the core expert panel were:
Chair
Gayle Smith
Senior Fellow Center for American Progress
Advisory Board
Ajay Banga
Chairman and CEO, Global Consumer Group - InternationalCitigroup, Inc.
The Honorable Mary Bush
Chair, HELP CommissionPresident, Bush International
Ian Davis
World Wide Managing DirectorMcKinsey & Company
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Journalist and Author
Dr. Donald Kaberuka
PresidentAfrican Development Bank Group
Dr. Kumi Naidoo
Secretary General and CEOCIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
Professor Andrew Natsios
Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and Advisor on International DevelopmentnEdmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Jacqueline Novogratz
Chief Executive OfficerAcumen Fund, Incorporated
Raymond Offenheiser
PresidentOxfam America
Maria Otero
President and CEOACCION International
Alan Patricof
PCo-FounderApax Partners
Dr. Judith Rodin
PresidentThe Rockefeller Foundation
Muhammad Yunus
Founder & Managing DirectorGrameen Bank

suggested readings were


Creating Social Change: 10 Innovative Technologies >
World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development >
Pro-Poor Growth Policy Statement >
Has World Poverty Really Fallen? >
International Trade:Unlocking the Potential for Human Development >
Harnessing the Developmental Potential of Emerging Market Reserves >
Private Investment for Social Goals: Building the Blended Value Capital Market >

Bangladesh - Grameen special

Ashoka was launched 23 years ago based on Bill Draytonıs belief that there was nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur. Over the last few years, Ashoka has come to believe that the only thing more powerful than this, is a community of social entrepreneurs, acting together to tip the world towards new ways of working.
A sample of this community is the Grameen-Ashoka Dialogue.
Ashokaıs Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship, Founding Academy member Muhammad Yunus, and Ashokaıs Full Economic Citizenship initiative have joined forces to organize this event, the purpose of which is to create a common action and marketing agenda around business-social ventures, i.e, revenue-generating business models critical, not peripheral, to marketing the systems change that social entrepreneurs are working on.
Both the social and business sectors need entirely new thinking about how all — specially the poor — can participate as producers of value and consumers who matter in the global economy. Historically, the business and social sectors have worked in parallel with very little interaction, even when serving the same clients — e.g., the poor — and yet, for many industries, this potential market could, in fact, constitute a new frontier.
The impact of such collaborations will be maximized by Ashokaıs Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship which seeks to tip the social sector towards operationalising for global (rather than only local, national, or regional) impact. With the maturing of the citizen sector, it has become entirely possible for social change initiatives to aspire for more than local or national impact, presenting the opportunity to consolidate the stature of social entrepreneurship as a global profession. The Academy has three major goals. First, it aims to inspire and model global collaborations for the social sector by electing social entrepreneurs who have had global impact as Academy members, and serving their needs by linking them with their peers and Ashoka fellows around the world. The Ashoka-Grameen dialogue is the first such experiment. Second, it will stimulate the emergence of more global citizen sector organizations through a competitive process — to this end, Ashokaıs first Global fellows selection panel is taking place in January. Third, it will identify and orient business entrepreneurs with a deep interest to contribute to the social change area with sound business-social investment principles. These principles will be devised from the learning that emerges at the Ashoka-Grameen dialogue.
Grameenıs pathbreaking work in the area of business-social ventures, Muhammad Yunusı desire to focus his next wave of innovation to make this as important a movement as the micro-credit movement, the congruent goals of Ashokaıs Full Economic Citizenship and Academy initiatives and the collective wisdom, social change efforts and action orientation of Ashoka Fellows are the forces that will come together at Dhaka, to address a major social change opportunity.
We encourage you to view this event as but the beginning of a group entrepreneurship process, not a single event. And we are more than delighted to have such a talented group of changemakers!
Ashoka Fellow Arturo Garcia, who has developed cash crop self-help cooperatives that are owned and operated by 12,000 peasants in Mexico, and Albina Ruiz Rios, who has developed 15 ıHealthy Citiesı waste management microenterprises in Peru, were the first Fellows to arrive. They will soon be joined by 14 more Fellows who are building business-social ventures in Africa, Central Europe, Latin America, India, the United States and Bangladesh.
ıDuring my stay here, I am sure to learn so much about microcredit and its replication — and how it is possible to have people pay for some of the services,ı said Ruiz as she get her first look at the crowded urban conditions in Dhaka. ıI hope every city in Peru wants to develop model Healthy Cities microenterprises — this is my dream. After that, I want to see this model replicated in other countries.ı
Ruiz met with Bangladesh Ashoka Fellows Maqsood Sinha and Iftekhar Enayetullah this afternoon and inspected their Dhaka-based Waste Concern project. They have demonstrated that urban wastes can be converted to a resource that creates jobs, cleaner and healthier communities, recycled resources and a commercially successful compost product that supports organic farming.
Sinha and Enayetullah have succeeded in getting the Bangladesh government to include composting and recycling in national policy for the first time, and to provide resources to replicate their model in 14 cities across Bangladesh, where it will benefit 1 million people. ıItıs a breakthrough,ı Sinha said.
Sinha and Enayetullah were eager for a chance to meet with Ruiz before departing for San Francisco where they will be honored by Silicon Valley leaders and UN delegates at a black tie awards gala on Oct. 15 as laureates of the 2003 Tech Museum of Innovation Awards. These awards recognize top innovators from around the world who are harnessing technology that profoundly improves the human condition.
Sinha and Enayetullah will later rejoin the Ashoka-Grameen Dialogue, which runs from Oct. 13-23. It brings together Yunus and Ashokaıs Full Economic Citizenship initiative to create a common action and marketing agenda around business-social ventures. These are projects for which revenue-generating business models are critical, not peripheral, to magnifying the impact of social entrepreneursı systems changing ideas.
Sinha and Enayetullah have been developing ideas for generating investments in business social ventures, including the use of Clean Development Mechanisms (CDMs). They encourage investments in developing country projects that will reduce green house gas emissions, or fix or sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide.
ıYou cannot replicate or scale-up on a large basis with grant money,ı Sinha said. ıYou have to harness other opportunities. At a certain point, you need investment for your project to scale-up. I think this is the biggest barrier that we need to address.ı
Ashoka Fellows attending the Grameen-Ashoka Dialogue:
Francisco Javier Duque (Colombia, 2002) Arturo Garcia (Mexico, 1989)Juan Infante (Peru, 1999) Winnie Lira (Chile, 2002)Adair Meira (Brazil, 1996) Kapil Mondol (India, 2002)Albina Ruiz Rios (Peru, 1995) Fabio Rosa (Brazil, 1989) Tomasz Sadowski (Poland, 1995) Rosario García y Santos (Uruguay, 1999)Pradip Sarmah (India, 2001)J.B. Schramm (U.S.A., 2000) Maqsood Sinha and Iftekhar Enayetullah (Bangladesh, 2000) Mark Swilling (South Africa, 1992)
Event contact:Kris Herbstkherbst@ashoka.orgTel: 703-527-8300 x 263
Photo © 2003 by Kris Herbst The Grameen Group on Monday morning.
First row from left: Nurjahan Begum (Grameen Bank), Barbara Sadowski (Poland), Rosario Garcia y Santos (Uruguay), Susan Davis (Ashoka), Mohammad Yunus (founder of Grameen Bank), Vivianne Naigeborin (Ashoka), Albina Ruiz Rios (Peru), Winnie Lira (Chile), Valeria Budinich (Ashoka)
Second row beginning 2nd from left: Kapil Mondol (India), Juan Infante (Peru), Francisco Javier Duque (Colombia), M. Khalid Shams (Grameen Bank), Pradip Sarmah (India), Arturo Garcia (Mexico), Tomasz Sadowski (Poland), Mark Swilling (South Africa)
Third row beginning fifth from left: J.B. Schramm (US), Adair Meira (Brazil)
Photo © 2003 by Kris Herbst Ashoka Fellow Francisco Javier Duque visits one of Grameen's new family of business-social ventures (on Sunday Oct. 19): a garment factory that is one of the 10 largest in Bangladesh. The factory earns a profit that, at current levels, will exceed $1 million annually after 2005 when commercial loans used for its construction are paid off. The factory's profits belong to the Grameen Bank's microcredit and Grameen health care programs for the rural poor. Workers in the factory receive unusually high wages for Bangladesh, and a benefits package that includes maternity leave, health insurance, and double pay for work over eight hours. Grameen is seeking approval from the Bangladesh government to turn over ownership of the factory to the recipients of its microloans — the poorest women in rural areas — by issuing them shares of its stock.

Mitigating Ethnic Conflict

Panel:
Chair
Robert Malley
Director, Middle East and North Africa Program International Crisis Group
Advisory Board
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah
Queen of the Hashemite Kingdom of JordanThe Royal Hashemite Court
The Honorable Madeleine Albright
PrincipalThe Albright Group LLC
Dr. Don Argue
PresidentNorthwest University
Counselor Andre Azoulay
Counselor to His Majesty King Mohamed VIThe Kingdom of Morocco
Preeta Bansal
Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLPCommissioner & Past Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
Cheryl Carolus
Executive ChairPeotona Holdings Pty Ltd.
The Honorable Edward Djerejian
Founding DirectorJames A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
Sara Ehrman
Senior AdvisorCenter for Middle East Peace & Economic Cooperation
The Honorable Martin Indyk
DirectorSaban Center for Middle East Policy
Jean Manas
Vice Chairman, Mergers & Acquisitions - AmericasDeutsche Bank Securities Incorporated
Rabbi Arthur Schneier
Senior RabbiPark East SynagogueFounder and PresidentAppeal of Conscience Foundation
Toni Verstandig
Senior Policy AdvisorCenter for Middle East Peace
Dr. James Zogby
PresidentArab American Institute

Further Readings:

The Mighty and the Almighty >
Building the Interfaith Movement > (summary)
God's Country >

Sessions

Session 1: Meeting the Challenge of Coexistence: Living in Integrated Communities Wednesday, September 20 at 1:30 PMThis session will focus on ethnic and religious tensions within state boundaries. Panelists will explore specific cases and how the actions taken might be improved upon or replicated.The first panel will focus on the challenge posed by the presence of large Muslim communities in Western countries by looking at three distinct cases: the US, the UK and Denmark. Particularly in the wake of the Danish cartoon controversy, French riots and attacks in London, there is a need for creative thinking about how best to integrate these communities and give them a genuine political voice while respecting their cultural and religious identities. The second panel will look at various cases of embattled societies and seek to extract lessons – from South Africa, Northern Ireland, the Middle East and Sri Lanka -- that could be applied elsewhere.
Session 2: Bridging the Transnational Cultural Divide Thursday, September 21 at 9:30 AMThis session will move to the broader level of intercultural communication, misunderstanding and conflict. Much though not all of the discussion will examine the perilous rift that has been growing between Muslims and the West and explore practical solutions from a variety of angles. The Danish cartoon controversy was only one, highly visible example of increased polarization. It came against the backdrop of growing tensions over a series of political issues – from Iran’s nuclear program to Hamas’s electoral victory – and of growing cultural stereotypes, with westerners seen by Muslims as patronizing and domineering, and Muslims seen by westerners as fanatical and intolerant.Participants in the first panel will concentrate on education and religious exchanges. The second panel will bring together individuals from the world of media, movies and sports. They will be asked what their respective fields can do to deepen understanding between different, often hostile cultures.
Session 3: Preventing and Resolving Deadly Conflict Thursday, September 21 at 2:30 PMThis session will tackle two of the most urgent conflicts the world faces today. The first panel will focus on the Middle East, which again has been the scene of wide-scale, tragic violence. Panelists from various parts of the region will discuss the role of non-governmental actors at a time when official diplomacy appears stuck. The second panel will take up the case of Darfur. In this instance, panelists will consider what people from various sectors of society can do to mobilize public attention on the ongoing genocide and get governments to act.

Global Health

Panel:
Chair
Chris Jennings
President Jennings Policy Strategies, Inc.
Advisory Board
Joe Cerrell
Director, Global Health AdvocacyThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr. Ernest Darkoh
Chairman and Founding PartnerBroadReach Healthcare, LLC
Dr. Paul Farmer
FounderPartners in Health
Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding
DirectorCenters for Disease Control and Prevention AdministratorAgency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Professor William Hsiao
K.T. Li Professor of EconomicsHarvard School of Public Health
Dr. Carol Jacobs
ChairmanNational HIV/AIDS Commission - Barbados Chair of the BoardThe Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Ira Magaziner
ChairmanClinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative
Eileen Naughton
Former PresidentTime Inc.
Lois Quam
Chief Executive OfficerOvation
Senator Arlen Specter
United States Senator, PennsylvaniaUnited States Senate

Read More:

Investing in Young People >
Government-NGO collaboration: the case of tuberculosis control in Bangladesh >
Rapid-Impact Interventions: How a Policy of Integrated Control for Africa?s Neglected Tropical Disease Could Benefit the Poor >
Staff level hurts AIDS fight >
An information system and medical record to support HIV treatment in rural Haiti >
The Global Burden of Chronic Diseases: Overcoming Impediments to Prevention and Control >
Securing Sanitation: The compelling case to address the crisis >

Sessions:

Session 1:Condition Critical: The Health Care Infrastructure Chasm Wednesday, September 20 at 1:30 PMThis session will address how the lack of a functional infrastructure continues to be one of the biggest barriers to public health. Relatively simple solutions are available that could make great strides in helping the world’s population lead longer, healthier lives. Session 2:Neglected Health Threats: Silent Killers, Practical ResponsesThursday, September 21 at 9:30 AMThis session will explore how both neglected communicable diseases and chronic conditions are quietly killing tens of millions of people annually while hundreds of millions of survivors suffer debilitating disabilities. Neglected tropical diseases often attack the developing world as lethally as HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria. Meanwhile, chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease - largely caused by rising obesity and smoking rates – are the leading cause of death in nearly every country and are expected to increase by almost 20% in the next ten years. Fortunately, these diseases and chronic conditions can be prevented, controlled, and potentially even eradicated through new technology delivered in innovative and cost-effective ways. Session 3:Healthy Workers, Healthy Businesses: Ensuring Home and Workplace WellnessThursday, September 21 at 2:30 PMThis session will focus on two interrelated areas, the home and work environment. The incidence of devastating conditions – like diarrhea and lower respiratory infection – is in most cases strongly tied to basic health factors, such as safe water, proper sanitation, and indoor air quality. This panel will focus on the innovative commitments that businesses and NGOs are making to improve the environments where people live and work. These interventions are not purely humanitarian; employers and employees alike agree that they are common-sense means to increase productivity