text: This, naturally, was music to the ears of the Socialist International (SI), the worldwide organization of socialist and communist parties, which plays an important role at all UN conferences. The Socialist International ? which counted Obama?s ?Climate Czar? Carol Browner among its leaders until she left SI to join the new U.S. administration ? joined the call for committing at least $100 billion per year into a United Nations ?Green Fund,? ostensibly to save the poor.