Behind the scenes in the run-up to Paris, 90,000 European diplomats will be lobbying countries around the world to agree an ambitious climate deal.
As soon as the first African countries became independent, NGOs started lobbying countries to provide development assistance to help the new states realise their development plans.
Although GM crops are allowed to be grown in only three countries, this is likely to change in the next five years and he admits that the foundation lobbies countries to accept the technology.
Sam Dryden, head of agriculture at the foundation, told the Guardian in an interview last year that it lobbies countries to accept GM technology but that he is keen to see more investment in traditional breeding and staple crops such as sorghum, millet and cassava that have been largely ignored by big seed companies.
Sadly, the Argentinian government has already dismissed the outcome of this referendum before it has even been held, and is seeking means to ensure that the process cannot be independently verified; indeed the Administration has stated publicly that the Argentinian foreign minister is actively lobbying countries not to send observers to witness our referendum.
Since 2006, founder Nicholas Negroponte has traveled the globe lobbying countries from Uruguay to Rwanda to commit to buying "one laptop per child" to improve education worldwide.
Another of his top picks is Focus Media Holding, a Shanghai-based operator of a network of more than 35,000 flat panel advertising displays in elevators, office lobbies, country clubs and other places where affluent Chinese can be found.
The opposition is also planning to send a delegation to the summit to lobby other countries.
In coming weeks, they are to lobby their countries' governments.Yet in the end the man who must make things happen in the hemisphere is Mr Clinton.
Bono, the lead singer of U2, has joined advocates and economists to lobby industrialized countries to forgive the foreign debt of developing nations.
