The objective of this project is to promote the sustainable management of carbon sinks within the framework of the Jacobean Route. The pilgrimage activity along the Jacobean Route/Camino de Santiago causes a huge number of pilgrims to interact with the natural environment and with the population and tourist infrastructure of the territories they travel through every year.

The objective of this project is to promote the sustainable management of carbon sinks within the framework of the Jacobean Route. The pilgrimage activity along the Jacobean Route/Camino de Santiago causes a huge number of pilgrims to interact with the natural environment and with the population and tourist infrastructure of the territories they travel through every year.

On many occasions, the interaction of pilgrims and the environment is potentially dangerous and harmful to the carbon sinks of the Route. Therefore, the objective of this project is to promote the sustainable management of carbon sinks within the framework of the Jacobean Route, contributing to the pilgrimage activity becoming a stable and long-term ally in the fight against change. To achieve this objective, an intense dissemination campaign is proposed among the population in the surroundings of the Jacobean Route and among pilgrims to increase the knowledge and importance of the sinkholes so that good practices of responsible sustainable tourism are achieved.

To achieve these objectives, the following action plan has been drawn up:

• Studying potential CO2-fixing vegetation
• To study the sensitive species and plant formations that act as CO2 sinks within the framework of the Jacobean Route
• Compile Good Practices and Environmental Recommendations on Sustainable Forest Management of Plantations
• Compile Good Practices on Sustainable Forest Management of Green Corridors and Riparian Areas
• Compiling Good Practices on Responsible Sustainable Tourism within the framework of the Jacobean Route
• Prepare bi-monthly bulletins on other important functions of the sinks (water, air, landscape, etc.) during the execution of the project
• To disseminate knowledge among the local population in the surroundings of the Jacobean Route created in the previous actions
• Study the Good Practices of the “Green Pilgrim”
• Develop several informative posters on Sustainable Forest Management of Green Corridors and Riparicultural Areas
• Prepare several informative posters on the various important functions of sinks (water, air, landscape, etc.)
• To disseminate among the pilgrims of the Jacobean Route the knowledge created in A2.1 and to exhibit the Posters made in A2.2 and A2.3