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T1 Tourism, Transport and Climate Change: The Carbon Footprint of International Air Traffic on Islands
A1 Dorta Antequera, Pedro Javier
A1 Díaz Pacheco, Jaime
A1 López Díez, Abel
A1 Celia Bethencourt Herrera
A2 Geografía e Historia
A2 Cátedra de Reducción del Riesgos de Desastres y Ciudades Resilientes 
Grupo de Estudios en Ordenación Territorial y Riesgos
K1 carbon emissions
K1 greenhouse gas
K1 energy
K1 flygskam
K1 global warming
K1 aircraft
AB Many small islands base their economy on tourism. This activity, based to a large extent on the movement of millions of people by air transport, depends on the use of fossil fuels and, therefore, generates a large amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In this work, these emissions are evaluated by means of various carbon calculators, taking the Canary Islands as an example, which is one of the most highly developed tourist archipelagos in the world. The result is that more than 6.4 million tonnes (Mt) of CO2 are produced per year exclusively due to the massive transport of tourists over an average distance of more than 3000 km. The relative weight of these emissions is of such magnitude that they are equivalent to more than 50% of the total amount produced by the socioeconomic activity of the archipelago. Although, individually, it is travelers from Russia and Nordic countries who generate the highest carbon footprint due to their greater traveling distance, the British and German tourists account for the greatest weight in the total, with two-thirds of emissions.
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/39687
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/39687
LA Inglés
NO DOI: 10.3390/su13041795
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 26-dic-2024