LIFE STARS+20 is an European project promoted by Fundación San Valero and supported by the EU through LIFE program - Environmental Governance & Information.
Its main objective is to back up the European strategy for the fight against Climate Change taking as a reference the European Tourism Sector, responsible of about 5% of the total CO2 emissions and with more than 500 millions of international tourists arrive every year (40% of the global worldwide quote) and based on the WTO report on forecasts for the present decade a sustained growth higher than 5%/year is forecasted.
The STARS+20 project has the specific objective of a CO2 emissions reduction potential above 20% for tourism sector, using as experimentation platform an internationally-recognized resource as the St. James Way, for interacting on supply and demand simultaneously.
This project seeks the validation of a support model to the European strategy for the fight against climate change, demonstrating the feasibility of obtaining reduction potentials of interest for the sector, together with the objective associated of obtaining ethical leadership commitments of the Civil Society represented in the sociological plurality, economic and of different national origin of the pilgrims that choose to do this European cultural route.
The innovative strategy of the project is concentrated in the “supply/demand duality” in the Tourist Sector, boosting the implementation of technologies for a carbon low economy and the tourist’s simultaneous adoption of the environmental commitment for reducing the carbon footprint through sustainable dynamics offered, taking as channeling vector the main Tourism Resource of European interest.
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