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Carbon Neutral Wines
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Reducing the pace of anthropogenic climate change to a manageable level is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Clearly, the human-induced global warming has to be limited to 1.5°C to maintain a manageable level of change in climatic systems, an option slipping out of reach in the light of too little action implemented too late. In fact, the global net GHG emissions would have to become zero until 2055.
As a result of a fruitful cooperation and pioneering in environmental matters in the global wine trade, Andreas Oster Weinkellerei KG, Dr. Helena Ponstein and Bevsmart Ltd. are now introducing fully carbon neutral wines to the consumer market through Climateline by Zukunftswerk eG. |
The carbon footprint of each wine includes all operations in the vineyards, the energy and material usage for the vinification, and the bottling. Equally, greenhouse gas emissions from the packaging and the logistics have been assessed and included. All calculations in the process are made separately for each wine.
Before offsetting residual greenhouse gas emissions, several measures are taken to reduce the carbon footprint. This includes the usage of renewable energies in the bottling process, the preferred transportation of the wines per ship, and choosing a climate friendly packaging. The beverage carton is not only amongst the most climate friendly packaging options for wine, it is also partly based on plant-based materials. When choosing glass bottles as wine packaging, we make sure that the bottle is both light-weight and sourced from a producer with reduced GHG emissions compared to the national industry average. |
While being highly vulnerable to climate change wine, like other many farming products, is a significant contributor to global warming. Therefore, climate neutral wines contribute to achieving the goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees until 2100.
The residual greenhouse gas emissions were compensated through the certified project Fortaleza Ituxi REDD+. It is located in Lábrea in Brazil, one of the districts with the highest rates of deforestation in the country. The project implements afforestation with indigenous tree species and protects a forest area of 5392 hectare. It not only avoids GHG emissions from deforestation and restores the forest as a carbon sink, it also recreates and preserves the habitat for plants and animals in the world’s most species rich biodiversity hotspot, the Amazon rainforest. |
Climate Project
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The Fortaleza Ituxi REDD+ Project aims at protecting forests located in one of the regions having the highest deforestation rate in the Amazon Biome: the municipality of Lábrea. As the southernmost municipality in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, Lábrea is geographically located nearby the “Arc of Deforestation” and neighbors other highly deforested municipalities. Over the life of the project, the following benefits are expected:
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