Headed toward GLOBAL GOVERNMENT? :/ United States[edit] Foreign-policy proposals announced by the recently re-elected President Barack Obama include restoring the Global Poverty Act, which aims to contribute to meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals to reduce by half the world population living on less than a dollar a day by 2015. Foreign aid is expected to double to 50 billion dollars.[62] The money will be used to help build educated and healthy communities, reduce poverty and improve the populations health.[63] In terms of international institutions, The White House Web site advocates reform of the World Bank and the IMF, without going into any detail.[64] Below are further points in the Obama-Biden plan for foreign policy directly related to world governance:[65] strengthening of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; global de-nuclearization in several stages including stepping up cooperation with Russia to significantly reduce stocks of nuclear arms in both countries; revision of the culture of secrecy: institution of a National Declassification Center to make declassification secure but routine, efficient, and cost-effective; increase in global funds for AIDS, TB and malaria. Eradication of malaria-related deaths by 2015 by making medicines and mosquito nets far more widely available; increase in aid for children and maternal health as well as access to reproductive health-care programs; creation of a 2-billion-dollar global fund for education. Increased funds for providing access to drinking water and sanitation; other similarly large-scale measures covering agriculture, small- and medium-sized enterprises and support for a model of international trade that fosters job creation and improves the quality of life in poor countries; in terms of energy and global warming, Obama advocates a) an 80% reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 b) investing 150 billion dollars in alternative energies over the next 10 years and c) creating a Global Energy Forum capable of initiating a new generation of climate protocols.
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