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Wednesday, November 18, 2020
After reopening to the public after the mandatory closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Machu Picchu is now getting ready to become the world's first carbon-neutral tourist destination. It is an important environmental certification granted by the global organization Green Initiative, which will place the historic sanctuary as a world leader committed to actions against climate change.
According to Marisol Acosta, Director of Tourism at PROMPERÚ, this project called 'Machu Picchu Carbon Neutral' is a coordinated work between the public and private sectors to achieve the objective. "This initiative will allow to promote a new offer of sustainable products and experiences that will also be in high demand by travelers after the pandemic," said the official.
This would be achieved in two ways: one, is by purchasing carbon offsets from countries that have emitted less greenhouse gases than their quota; the other is compensating with actions that capture the emission generated by the planting of trees or the reuse of solid waste. "A process that will take around five months to begin to be carried out and that, later, through the carbon credits, will proceed to the compensation, which will allow obtaining the neutrality certificate", says Renzo Paino, representative of the Green Initiative.
Since 2017, the Municipality of Machu Picchu implemented, together with the private company, a series of measures to promote the mitigation of the carbon footprint. The aim is to reduce the impact of human activity on the environment and, in this way, to gradually and responsibly reactivate tourism.
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Machu Picchu reopened its doors to tourism on November 1 at 30% of its capacity, with free visits as part of the first phase of the reactivation. It is estimated that for the next two years, about a million and a half tourists from Peru and the world will visit this wonder of the modern world.
Sources: Andina / TVPerú
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