During the past six years, we have joined a large range of partners in the international fight against poverty. For example, to help reduce the effects of global warming, we worked with governments and the private sector to launch the new BioCarbon Fund and with the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) to launch the Community Development Carbon Fund (CDCF). We are also working with the World Wildlife Fund to protect forests. With the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), we sponsor the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) which mobilizes cutting-edge science to reduce hunger and poverty, improve human nutrition and health, and protect the environment. Through the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), we work with 27 other international and donor organizations to provide access to financial services (such as loans and savings) for the poor, referred to as microfinance. A partnership to defeat river blindness throughout Africa has successfully prevented 700,000 cases of blindness, opened 25 million hectares of arable land to cultivation, and treats more than 35 million people a year for the disease.