Los Cabos, BCS. _ After three days in which nearly 400 attendees, leaders of the region, listened to lectures, panels, discussions and shared the vision of the future they aspire to for their states, this Friday culminated Summit 2024 Cities with a future. No fear of actionconvened by Sea of Cortez Forum.
During these three days, the importance of the cities for the sustainable developmentof success stories, of conservation efforts, but also of the challenges, such as insecurity and the environmental impact faced by the Sea of Cortés Region.
At the closing, in charge of Valeria Moythe Director General of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) highlighted a summary of the issues addressed during these three days and proposed to continue to metrics to evaluate the progress of the goals set for the region.
"Let's start measuring, let's start having indicators, goals, so that next year we can see how we have progressed," he urged.
The relevance of the approach of the Summit 2024He commented that cities are that space where citizens feel close to the problems of insecurity, mobility or public services, therefore, they are more involved and want to solve them.
"The tone and the common thread that they gave it on this occasion seemed ideal to me, because I think you can reach much more if we talk about cities, than if we talk about states, because we remove, or at least try to remove, a certain political connotation, and the city makes much more reference to our life, to what we live," he said.
But the next step to be taken Sea of Cortez Forumhe suggested, is to establish metrics and indicators to measure whether progress is being made as a region.
"At the Summit we take some snapshots of how the situation is, but I think we are going to have to get to that point where we have to measure. I invite you to start having some metrics for next year where we can tell those success stories," he said.
The Director General of the IMCO stressed that cases such as the recovery of the pronghorn, the protection of the forest in San Pedro Mártir or the fight against illegal fishing, which were raised in various stories, have to be translated into metrics that allow us to see the achievements and progress, which show that the effort to make this Summit and to come together to discuss what is happening in the region is not only a success, but also a success. Sea of Cortezcan be translated into better results.
"Thank you for inviting us all to reflect, to learn, to learn about history. What about the history master class we had with Enrique Krauze? You don't get those opportunities every day," he said.
In this way, it will be possible to Sea of Cortés Region remains one of the most important and most beautiful in the world. Mexicohe stressed.
