I received a link to this video from Brian Purchia, Deputy Director of Communications for Gavin Newsom. While I haven’t had a chance to watch the whole conference (that would take a few days!), I’m delighted to see there is online access to any of the sessions here, and they look quite impressive. Click on above image to view an opening plenary session from the Clinton Global Initiative, which includes a panel of Gavin Newsom, T. Boone Pickens, Shimon Peres, Helle Thorning-Schmidt (leader of Danish Social Democratic Party), Robert Zoellick (President of the World Bank), moderated by Tom Brokaw as well as speeches by both McCain and Obama on the topic of integrated solutions to water, food and energy.
I’m a Newsom fan, and seeing as the video linked above is nearly 2 hours (1 hr 50 minutes longer than the average attention span), I’d like to point out that around minute 57 Newsom gives a terrific explanation of what he thinks needs to happen to solve our climate catastrophe, advocating for both cap and trade as well as a carbon tax.
One other interesting point is that the forum is decisively not political, and I was impressed that Clinton welcomed both McCain and Obama to speak. However, I was pleased to notice how overtly more excited Clinton was at the conclusion of Obama’s masterful, well-articulated and strategic speech (seen towards the end of the video) than after McCain spoke. Clinton shows a clear preferene for Obama and his commitments to global health, a preference I strongly share.
