A Query:"The Blue Guardians", "the Blue Halo Initiative" and all sorts of romantic, New Age-y namings and flimsy projects to 'dress up' and camouflage New World Order exploitative appetites for the "SIDS DOCK member states", aka the small islands , their surrounding oceanic waters, their reefs, their organic and inorganic riches, their peoples?(West African countries also included).
Are they officially and panegyrically served in the plate of the "Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)", its "New Clinton Global Initiative Partnership" and to the other 'grandiose', systemic institutions?
Creepy!? Scary!? Disconcerting!? Simply incidental!?Nothing To Worry About!? m.l.p.
"...“Blue Guardians,” a partnership with DigitalGlobe, SIDS DOCK, Clinton Climate Initiative, the World Bank, The Nature Conservancy, and others. Broadly, this program, announced yesterday at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting in New York City, will “protect oceans and enable blue economies.”..."
"...Blue Guardians aims to raise a $100 million multi-donor trust fund to be managed by the World Bank and an Executive Steering Committee comprising SIDS DOCK member states. Also per the program description, “The goal of the trust fund is to create a management and policy foundation for SIDS to establish their own development priorities while having the necessary tools to make informed decisions regarding their blue resources as an engine of inclusive growth.”..."
Blue Guardians: A New Clinton Global Initiative Partnership
Starting today, we hope to be able to devote even more resources toward sound ocean management with the launch of “Blue Guardians,” a partnership with DigitalGlobe, SIDS DOCK, Clinton Climate Initiative, the World Bank, The Nature Conservancy, and others. Broadly, this program, announced yesterday at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting in New York City, will “protect oceans and enable blue economies.” (See press release.)
Through our participation we hope to further support the creation of comprehensive ocean plans based on science and grounded in community priorities. In particular, this partnership enables us to expand our support for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) that wish to develop national climate resilience strategies and attract sustainable investment into coastal communities and marine and fisheries conservation.
Blue Guardians aims to raise a $100 million multi-donor trust fund to be managed by the World Bank and an Executive Steering Committee comprising SIDS DOCK member states. Also per the program description, “The goal of the trust fund is to create a management and policy foundation for SIDS to establish their own development priorities while having the necessary tools to make informed decisions regarding their blue resources as an engine of inclusive growth.”
Already, the partnership has resulted in DigitalGlobe, a Blue Guardians founding member, providing the Waitt Institute with high-resolution satellite imagery for Montserrat and Curaçao. This will aid us in our initial goal to map the coastal habitats of these islands so that their Governments can clearly understand the extend of their coral reef, seagrass, and other ecosystems, and devise plans to better manage them. Ultimately, this plus many other factors will inform national climate resilience strategies and a pipeline of sustainable investment projects to be developed by each SIDS government with support from the Blue Guardians.
We sincerely thank our partners for initiating and leading this effort. It’s an honor for the Waitt Institute to be amongst this impressive group of collaborators. Holistic, locally-appropriate efforts like this are critical to protecting, restoring, and managing the ocean at a large scale, in the context of climate change, and with the health of local economies at the forefront.