On the second day of the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, new commitments were announced to address a range of global challenges, including women's right to work and earn an equal wage, environmental conservation, and sustainable development.

New commitments announced include a pledge by Intel, in partnership with the Telecentre.org Foundation, CARE, World Vision, and others, to narrow the gender gap in technology use in sub-Saharan Africa by bringing five million young women online over the next three years; a commitment by Navitus Sustainable Industries, in partnership with local communities, the University of Utah, and Caterpillar Inc., to build three waste-to-energy facilities in Utah by 2015; and a pledge by Conservation International, in partnership with the Republic of Kiribati, the Global Conservation Fund, the New England Aquarium, and the Phoenix Islands Protected Area Conservation Trust, to ensure the long-term protection of the Phoenix Islands ecosystem and further the economic development of the Pacific island nation.

In addition, a public-private consortium that includes WEConnect International, Accenture, WalMart, Pfizer, the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, and the International Center for Research on Women announced a commitment to support women entrepreneurs by tracking and measuring $1.5 billion in investments targeting at least fifteen thousand women-owned small and midsize enterprises outside the United States by 2018.

"Women and girls still comprise the majority of the world's unhealthy, unfed, and unpaid, marginalized in so many ways," said Hillary Rodham Clinton. "We've built an architectural structure of laws and norms to protect women's rights, but 2015 will mark twenty years since that conference in Beijing calling for the full and equal participation of women. I believe it's time for a full and clear-eyed look at how far we have come, how far we still have to go, and what we plan to do together about the unfinished business of the twenty-first century, the full and equal participation of women."