A new year to which we must enter with all the spirit despite the appearance, we must sow hope and action, with a heart full of momentum, grateful for all that we do have, grateful to be able to be here standing up for the fight, today as then 36 years ago, without losing heart we will face 2024 with a more strategic vision aimed at addressing the consequences of climate change that is already here, water scarcity is a promise, rain harvesting, sanitation and above all education to the population. Great impulse to the training of teachers through the alliance with ITESM and as a result of a public policy of climate action of the State Government, the diploma course “Didactic tools for the teaching action” has a strategic importance, cultivating an important critical mass of teachers in action, involving the whole community.

The strengthening of micro-enterprises of tourist services, a network of 53 local entrepreneurs, the elaboration of cosmetics and phyto-inputs based on essential oils of the aromatic plants of the semi-desert of Querétaro, are the route, all participants of the Network are enthusiastic, with very good income, improving, exciting to see the local entrepreneurship.

Water sanitation, in alliance with the State Water Commission, sanitizing with appropriate technologies, with the participation of all the actors, harvesting, installation of storage tanks and fog-catching nets. The Queretaro Seal operating under a Local Protocol friendly with local communities, with a statewide carbon tax operating, to date 112 owners and 900 beneficiary ejidatarios protecting 23,586 Has. with exclusion of livestock, allowing forest regeneration, and we have to reach 40,000 Has. within an expanded polygon of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve.

That is why Querétaro, our State is a global leader, a beacon of responses to the climate emergency, bravo, bravo!!!!

With these perspectives we are ready, recharged and more than ever responding to the call of the Planet here and now with all the forces of a team committed to the Earth. Our best wishes for abundance, harmony and health.

Martha “Pati” Ruiz Corzo, January 1st, 2024