The purpose of the Area-Debt Adjusted Environmental Integrity Index (ADA-EII) spreadsheet is to put countries and territories into an aspirational statistical framework so we can reference Area, Population, GDP, and Public/National debt to get a better understanding of our global economic obligation under international standards. While there are obvious differences of scale, this ADA-EII looks at economic and regional integrations as a reference to comparatively assess indicators that more broadly describes geopolitical environmental data that can influence policies at the most local level. The material data promotes parity when it comes to accessing infrastructure and markets on terms that benefit true South-South cooperation, development, and opportunities, as well as technological conditions that intersect international institutions, with local, indigenous, customary, or other displaced communities who should benefit from the global data economy in a participatory way without having to surrender their biometric indigenous or ecological data to privatization-based capitalist exploitation.
Four sheets: National Data, Integration, the ADA-EII, and Environmental Data Scores— representing both countries and territories– provides a statistical evaluation of how we might understand our economies both now, under the present international system, and in the future, as we actively participate in new international forums, promoting local data sovereignty and intermediaries that defend our indigenous and environmental interactions from foreign or corporate management. National Accounting systems are changing and how they change will be dependent upon whether we are invalidated by neoliberal data privatization and asset management regimes, or whether we uphold free, prior and informed consent over our data—a consent that provides us with more than a simple yes or no, and with mutual trust and engagement in the cooperation of our choosing.
Context
Imagine an army of environmentalists coming to the region to discuss the importance of protecting our natural habitats, conservation, and the kind of mitigation and adaptation systems we will need to prepare against the impacts of climate change. They are not wrong, but the local population should service their environmental sector and benefit from generations of stewardship and indigenous knowledge. The world understands we need a program to coordinate financing, adaptation, and resilience. But in developing countries and poor, displaced, and vulnerable communities, there is already the burden of having a lack of access to financing and infrastructure, requiring aid dependencies that are often not of our choosing or our best interest.
Maritime Protected Areas (MPAs) are one such scheme where the management and environmental monitoring technologies are developed by Department of Defense subcontractors, working closely with environmental non-profits. Analyzing and recording data seems benign, but soon national accounts will shift how data is valued in national economies. This may not seem significant now, but when natural capital begins to be valued at tens of trillions of dollars, the accounting of that data will be subject to fierce disputes over ownership and regulatory access to that data. It will not benefit our local populations to allow a handful of trillion-dollar asset management firms in the wealthiest countries to profit from our health and environments, particularly when they were most responsible for degrading and depleting our land and resources for their own industrial and financial gain.
In the meantime, the global economy is in disarray. The environmental and economic polycrisis confronting the world today necessitates solutions towards reversing climate change, restoring ecological biodiversity, and redistributing global wealth more fairly and equitably. And while much of the world is trying to move away from a unipolar economic system and the disparity caused by privatization, capitalization, and the consolidation of wealth, industrialized economies are raising their debt ceiling by numbers that far exceed the debt of developing countries.
Historically, few opportunities are available for developing countries to pursue a chair in national accounting forums. Now, as a result of new multipolar integrations, in part led by the BRICS cooperation, forums like the World Data Organization (WDO) and the World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO) provide a tangible opportunity for our developing or emerging economies.
Country Data 2025 establishes the ground floor: area, population, nominal and PPP GDP, public debt, and the constructed per-capita benchmark that subtracts debt per capita from GDP per capita. This is the national equivalent of setting x₀ in the intemerate offset — it’s the account a nation currently has, stated plainly, before anyone asks what’s missing from it. The per-capita benchmark is the number that starts the real conversation: what would have to be recognized, per person, to close the gap conventional accounting leaves open. That’s the same question Intemerate Accounting asks a community about its reef or its forest, just asked about a whole country’s books.
Integration is where the aggregation happens, and it’s the piece that turns a single small economy into something with actual bargaining weight. On its own, one Pacific nation’s share of global GDP or land area barely registers. Combined through a bloc like the Pacific Islands Forum — and counted with EEZ included, not just land — the picture changes from small island states to large ocean states holding a meaningful share of the planet’s ocean jurisdiction. This is the translation layer: it’s what makes a regional claim legible to the G20 and financial markets without requiring each nation to negotiate alone from a position of apparent smallness.
The ADA-EII sheet itself is the bounded-adjustment mechanism — Currently, Yale’s EPI score fills in the ADA-EII sheet connecting geography, environmental performance, and public debt. Its function as a placeholder proving the potential for ecological-economic parity, is not ideal for measuring the two-way interaction for both interglobal and translocal environmental data. Conventional economic accounting gives monetary measures such as GDP and public debt enormous institutional importance, while ecological conditions are usually treated separately. ADA-EII begins from the proposition that the physical area for which a country has responsibility, its environmental performance, and its economic obligations should be visible within the same accounting framework.
Environmental Data Scores (Environmental Indicators) is intended to close the loop with fieldwork that will provide a more substantive foundation than relying upon the Yale EPI. The Yale index is useful because it gives us an existing standardized comparison, but it remains an externally constructed composite index that will overlap with the Intemerate Offset data . The longer-term objective is to make the underlying environmental conditions themselves visible. Environmental Indicators therefore moves from a single composite score toward specific measurements of ecological conditions. It identifies the category, indicator, primary monitoring agency, source, what is being measured, baseline, threshold, current score, and offset.
Environmental Data Scores are built on the same baseline-threshold-score-offset sequence as the intemerate equation, and the document is explicit that this architecture is meant to be replicated with Intemerate Offsets — meaning a village’s x₀ and xᵢ could eventually populate this exact structure, sitting alongside the institutionally-recognized data instead of outside it. That’s the real mechanism for “really doing this”: it’s not that Intemerate Accounting produces better data in isolation, it’s that this sheet gives that data a seat in the same framework nations already use to talk to each other about debt, GDP, and environmental performance — without requiring the community to surrender the data to get there.
The objective is not to assign a commodity price to nature. It is to recognize environmental measurement, data stewardship, restoration, and community knowledge as productive activities that conventional economic accounts routinely leave outside their boundaries.
In that sense, ecological-economic parity describes the larger objective of the ADA-EII to include the Intemerate Offsets. Ecological information enters the accounting system with institutional standing alongside GDP, debt, area, and other conventional economic measures, while the communities producing and stewarding that information become visible within the accounts.