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Porto Protocol to host weekly climate talks

The Porto Protocol Foundation is to host weekly talks on climate-change-related issues starting with an online discussion tomorrow on sustainable wine packaging.

Porto Protocol founding personality Adrian Bridge, CEO of The Fladgate Partnership

Described as “onlife” conversations about the world of wine in a changing climate, starting tomorrow is a series of one-to-one talks and roundtables with members of the wine community on sustainable packaging, viticulture and other topics on wine in a changing climate.

Click here to find more about all the events, while all the talks will take place here, in the organisation’s youtube channel.

Kicking off with a round table tomorrow entitled ‘The elephant in the room: sustainable packaging in wine’, the online event will feature Santiago Navarro from Garçon Wines, Tiago Moreira da Silva from Baglass and Nicolas Quille from the Crimson Wine Group.

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The Porto Protocol was launched at a climate change summit in Portugal last year. It is a voluntary pledge which commits its participants to adopt and promote concrete actions, however small, to help reduce the impact of a changing climate.

One response to “Porto Protocol to host weekly climate talks”

  1. Great discussion. It could on on longer. As a researcher in wine marketing I would be interested in Santiago’s details that he said (very quickly) to get more information about previous studies on alternative wine packaging, such as the one from the Nordic countries or any others he quickly mentioned. We are working on a large project to understand how best to motivate consumers to choose carbon friendly packaging. As the speakers noted, it is not so easy as to just put stuff on the shelf and hope consumers will buy it, which seems to be the direction of the glass industry. Most consumers don’t think deeply when buying everyday items, so dogmatic teaching or signage is probably not the way to go. Also, here in Australia, where 65% of our wine is exported, we are exporting the problem to other countries; some, like those in Europe can deal with at least recycling glass, but most of our wine does not go to Europe and therefore is even a worse polluter. I had planned to attend the conference in Portugal in June, but of course cannot. I look forward to learning more and participating in future discussions.

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