Last year's Clinton Global Initiative meeting brought big news to the world of green building, with a $5 billion dollar commitment to green existing buildings in the world's biggest cities. This year's meeting brings a similarly impressive investments to several segments of the green economy.
On Wednesday, India-based Suzlon Energy said it planned to dedicate $5 billion in funds over the next 10 years to developing clean energy projects that would bring power to 10 million people, largely in India and China.
Also on the energy front, AREVA and Duke Energy unveiled a joint partnership named ADAGE Biopower , which will build at least 10 wood-waste biomass energy plants in the United States in the next six years.
Food and water also had some time in the limelight at the annual meeting. The PepsiCo Foundation will donate $7.6 million to WaterPartners and the Safe Water Network to provide clean and sanitary drinking water to the developing world. And Procter & Gamble committed to provide $11 million worth of their clean drinking water sachets , or enough to provide a billion liters of clean water to the developing world.
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