‘ISLANDS UNDERSTAND ISLANDS’ COUNTY TO JOIN LOCAL2030 ISLANDS NETWORK OF THE UNITED NATIONS10/17/2024 ![]() FLORIDA KEYS, FL-- At Wednesday’s Monroe County Board of County Commissioners meeting, Monroe County Mayor Holly Merrill Raschein and Conch Republic Speaker of the House Paul Menta presented the notion of becoming a member of the Local2030 Islands Network of the United Nations. Joining the network will better position Monroe County and the Florida Keys, also affectionately known as the Conch Republic, as a global leader in sustainability and resilience to share knowledge with other like-minded island communities nationally and internationally. The Local2030 Islands Network is the world’s first global, island-led network devoted to advancing sustainable development goals through locally driven, culturally-informed solutions that can be scaled for increased impact. “Islands understand islands,” said Monroe County Commissioner Michelle Lincoln. “This is a great opportunity for us to share best practices with others across the world who are facing some of the issues we are having, like sea-level rise.” Monroe County will join Local2030 through Hawaii’s hub, which represents North America, and the Blue Community Consortium, which is the major environmental stakeholders group. Joining the network opens opportunities for international grant funding, and there is no cost to join.
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Bethany Bartlett
11/23/2024 05:35:26 pm
They didn’t explain it at all!! They aren’t telling you that local island network is a United Nations globalist agenda. They plan to identify local goals to advance the SDGs and strengthen long-term political leadership on sustainable development and climate resilience. This will change building codes, transportation, energy and utilities, as well as commercial fishing and tourism. This will eliminate the middle class in the keys. They will say they want to save marine life while simultaneously building wind farms off the coast killing our whales and dolphins. All to satisfy sustainable development goals and sustainable tourism. This will be done under the guise of “coral restoration”. Look deeper than this fake article. Ask questions. This is BAD NEWS FOR THE KEYS!!
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Jessica
11/23/2024 07:25:04 pm
The UN Local2030 Initiative is a program designed to localize the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by engaging local governments (our community was left out out of this brash decision by the BOCC) to implement “sustainability” projects. While the initiative seeks to address global “challenges” at the local level, critics argue against joining or participating in such programs for several reasons:
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