The document outlines a roadmap to move towards a more resilient, competitive tourism model committed to climate action.
Planning incorporates decarbonisation, regeneration, governance and financing measures to strengthen the island's future tourism strategy
The Plenary Session of the La Gomera Council approved the La Gomera Tourism Climate Action Plan, a strategic document that will mark the destination's roadmap to move towards a more sustainable, resilient tourism model committed to climate action.
The approval of this instrument represents a decisive step in the island's future planning, by establishing a framework aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked directly and indirectly to tourism activity, and reinforcing the adaptation of infrastructure and services to the effects of climate change.
This Plan constitutes a fundamental tool to anticipate the climatic and environmental challenges of the destination, while allowing the tourist competitiveness of the island to be strengthened based on criteria of responsibility, territorial balance and protection of its natural and landscape values.
The document is aligned with the principles of the Glasgow Declaration and with the Climate Action Master Plan of the Canary Islands destination 2022-2030, being structured around five major areas of action: measurement, decarbonization, regeneration, collaboration and financing. In this way, La Gomera advances in the consolidation of a tourism model based on planning, sustainability, institutional cooperation and the involvement of the public, private and social sectors.
The Climate Action Plan proposes specific measures for the entire island territory, with special attention to the areas with the highest concentration of visitors, the coastal centers, the protected natural spaces, the most sensitive ecosystems and the strategic infrastructures for the socioeconomic development of the island.
Likewise, the document contemplates different time horizons for action. Looking ahead to 2030, measures linked to energy efficiency, the incorporation of renewable energies and the first adaptation actions are prioritized. By 2040, progress is expected to be made in the consolidation of resilient infrastructure, electrification and the restoration of ecosystems linked to tourism. The 2050 horizon sets the objective of moving towards a climate-neutral, regenerative and fully adapted tourism model.
The Plan includes a total of 27 proposals for action grouped into four strategic lines: decarbonization, regeneration, governance and financing. These lines will make it possible to organize the necessary actions to reduce the climate footprint of tourism, improve the destination's adaptation capacity, strengthen coordination between administrations and agents in the sector, and mobilize economic resources that guarantee the continuity of the planned measures.
