For the first time in Colombia a festival decides to offset its carbon footprint.

The Regional Autonomous Corporation of La Guajira and the Francisco el Hombre Corporation decided to join their efforts in order to conserve one of the most valuable ecosystems of the Guajira capital..

Two families that live in the upper basin of the Tapias River will receive payment for environmental services, product of the compensation of the carbon footprint emitted by the Francisco el Hombre Festival in its tenth version, a decisive contribution to the conservation of the water resources of the department of La Guajira, which seeks to guarantee optimal conditions for the fauna and flora and improve the quality of life of the beneficiaries..

Families are committed to preserving 380 hectares of forest that in turn will capture 222 tons of CO2 per year, what is compared to the 70 tons that the festival would emit approximately for its own and related activities.

It is undoubtedly an innovative contribution that seeks to increase the environmental culture of those attending the Festival., the social responsibility of the sponsoring companies, managing to contribute to the conservation of the Tapias River, which is the supply source of the Riohacha aqueduct, Therefore, the families selected to receive said payments on this occasion, They are residents of this area.

The carbon footprint can be expressed as the footprint that each person and their activities leave on the planet., Every action, no matter how small it may seem, by an individual or an event emits an amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere., Therefore, it is necessary to create strategies that allow mitigating the impacts generated by them..