One of the most relevant projects that were presented at the Summit 2022 from Sea of Cortez Forum which was held in Los CabosBaja California Sur, was the Prosperity Monitoring Center in the Sea of CortezThe project, with which a network of local and international institutions will be able to generate socioeconomic and environmental indicators at the regional level.
Alejandro Robles GonzalezPresident of NOS Sustainable Northwestexplained that this project is based on the economic model of the donut, which defines that the only safe and just place where the community can prosper is one that as a floor covers the basic needs of humans and as a roof respects the limits of the planet.
"The proposal is this, we can put together a network among all the institutions that exist around the Sea of Cortés that have to do with this, which can be local and international, because there is too much information that is already processed, today I can get into a satellite and I can see what is happening here in carbon dioxide and the information is there," he said.
Robles González added that the problem is that there is no one to gather all this information, make it available, analyze it and deliver it, in order to generate and present an annual report to measure how the company is doing. Sea of Cortez region in these prosperity variables. That is the task for the Monitoring Center.
"Agustín (Coppel Luken, Honorary President of the Sea of Cortez Forum) said that in order to navigate you have to have a course, we already have it, it is called prosperity, but we have to monitor that we are on the right course and this could lead us towards that," he said.
The president of NOS Noroeste Sustentable explained that in the 1960s it was assumed that greater economic growth meant greater prosperity, but humanity is destroying the planet and there is still a lot of inequality and poverty, which means that we do know how to generate wealth, but not in the right way.
"The great challenge, when we talk about prosperity, is how we reconcile the aspirations we have as human beings and the needs we have to meet, with the limitations of this planet, which is finite," he insisted.
The great challenge of Sea of Cortez Forum is, if we already have a clear, decent and credible vision of that prosperity goal, to be able to achieve it in the region.
The Sea of Cortés and its biodiversity is the region's heritage, the legacy that Foro wants to leave is a culture of care for it, and the problem is that we have to return it to the way it was before and create prosperous societies, he pointed out.
Socioeconomic variables or minimum social floor:
- Water
- Food
- Health
- Education
- Labor and income
- Peace and justice
- Political participation
- Social equality
- Gender equality
- Housing
- Community and energy
Environmental variables or planet ceiling:
- Climate change
- Chemical contamination
- Stratospheric ozone
- Aerosols in the atmosphere
- Ocean acidification
- Nitrogen and phosphorus fluxes to the oceans
- Fresh water uses
- Changes in land use
- Biosphere integrity