But there was always the question of whether these thousands of pledges would have any lasting effect on the site.
At the Summit, held today in Abu Dhabi, global leaders announced their confidence in the plan's ability to achieve a lasting polio-free world by 2018 and pledged their financial and political support for its implementation.
A new plan to end polio, strengthen immunization systems and plan for transition At the Summit, held today in Abu Dhabi, global leaders announced their confidence in the plan's ability to achieve a lasting polio-free world by 2018 and pledged their financial and political support for its implementation.
During the Olympics, David Cameron said he was determined to provide a lasting legacy for sport in state schools and pledged that he would ensure that sport was made compulsory within the revised national curriculum in state schools.
It pledged to "join efforts" to build a "lasting and stable peace regime" on the Korean Peninsula, and that would appear to include South Korea.
This is despite a government pledge to use the Games to create a lasting legacy of fitness.
But what may prove far more effective at achieving a lasting peace and improving the livelihoods here is a government pledge to invest more than $58.5 million to build a cable car system and funicular up the steep hills of the favela.
"The violence will only make it more difficult to move Egypt forward on a path to lasting stability and democracy and runs directly counter to the pledges by the interim government to pursue reconciliation," said spokesman Josh Earnest.
Perdue has also made a remarkable pledge of transparency in its "programs, goals and progress to build lasting trust and relationships with our stakeholders". The transparency pledge includes sharing key animal metrics annually, honestly answering constructive criticism and, opening a dialogue with stakeholders including animal welfare activists, animal experts and academics.
Critically, Obama also used the Democratic majority in both the House and Senate to drive through his healthcare reform – perhaps his most lasting achievement, that leaves 2010 as a high watermark for deliverable public pledges.
