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• Sustainable Winegrowing Program

  The Sustainable Winegrowing Program gives growers and vintners educational tools to increase adoption of sustainable practices and to measure and demonstrate ongoing improvement. Building on maj [...]

• Sustainable Management of Winery Water Guide

  The guide gives wineries of all sizes the tools for self-assessment to make improvements in environmental performance and to lower overall production costs for water and energy use. These practi [...]

• Greenhouse Gas Protocol and Accounting Tool

  The goal of the project partners is to provide a free, easy-to-use, wine industry specific, greenhouse gas (GHG) protocol and calculator that will measure the carbon footprints of winery and vin [...]

• California Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Workbook

  The California Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Workbook is the foundation of the Sustainable Winegro [...]

• Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing

  The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA) developed a third-party certification program related to the California Sustainable Winegrowing Program (SWP) to increase the sustainability of t [...]

• SWP Online Self-Assessment Tool

  In partnership with US Department of Food and Agriculture's (USDA's) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), SWP workbook criteria and practices have been matched to corresp [...]

• SOStain

  SOStain, a proactive and voluntary program, is a process of repeated appraisal and sensible progress that increase the sustainability of viticulture. SOStain is a proactive and voluntary program based [...]

• V.I.V.A. Sustainability and Culture

  VIVA Sustainability and Culture is the project of the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea promoting sustainability in the wine sector since 2011. The purpose is to c [...]

• E-learning course on Sustainability in the Italian wine sector

  The course is done by teachers belonging to different groups of research and work involved in the project VIVA. The 23 les [...]

• Category Sustainability Profile (CSP)

  A Category Sustainability Profile or CSP is a summary of the best available, credible and actionable knowledge about the sustainability aspects related to a product over its entire life. Each CSP repr [...]

• Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

  Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are questions that retailers can use to assess and track the performance of brand manufacturers on critical sustainability issues. The category KPI questions focus on [...]

• Global Wine Producers Environmental Sustainability Principles

  The GWPESP set forth general tenets that promote the idea that the continued health of the wine industry rests entirely on natural resources (e.g., solar energy, appropriate climate, clean water, heal [...]

• Ita.Ca® Italian wine Carbon Calculator

  Ita.Ca. (Italian Wine Carbon Calculator) is the first GHG calculator developed in Italy for the wine sector in compliance with international protocols IWCP (International Wine Carbon Protocol [...]

• Sustainability Snapshot

  A one-page summary of relevant issues, hotspots and improvement opportunities for a product category in an accessible overview. A snapshot pulls information from the Categoriry Sustainability Profile [...]

• Pre Lab Unit System (Plus)

  IPADLAB-spinoff UNIMI has the aim of creating a certification system and monitoring of the vine's vegetal material through a detailed check of the vegetal production. The in loco structure o PRE [...]

• SOFT: training project for the correct use of agrochemicals and crop dusters

  SOFT was born and developed from the awarness of the importance of the right use of agrochemicals and machinery for pest management, health and environment. The application aims to th [...]

• Integrated Production of Wine - IPW

  The Integrated Production of Wine (IPW) is a voluntary environmental sustainability scheme established by the South African wine industry in 1998. It aims to serve as a basis for the appl [...]

• Practical course for the identification of vine varieties

  The course is held at the Technical Center of the CRA-VIT Susegana (close to Conegliano, Treviso, Italy) and is divided into a theoretical part that provides the basis for the recognition of the varie [...]

• High healthiness concentration wine: the experience Freewine®

  The course gives to wineries' employees the neeed knowledge and methods of the technological platform Freewine. Freewine® is a procedural guideline achieved through a non-binding technical protoc [...]

• Magis

  A sustainability program initiated by Bayer CropScience in cooperation with the University of Milan. Objective: to promote sustainability in viticulture and minimize environmental impact by using prec [...]

• ECO-Prowine

  It is a European project funded under the framework CIP - EcoInnovation. 6 European countries are participating (including Italy). Objective: to promote sustainability in the wine sector through the u [...]

• GEA.vite

  Gea.Vite is a program to assess the efficiency and sustainability of the winery. It is composed by several indicators and tools (Ita.Ca is one of the tools in the program).Participation: 47 wineries.

• Vino Libero

  A program initiated by an Italian wine entrepreneur, who started with his products and then involved other wineries. The program aims mainly at promoting the production of wine free from chemical fert [...]

• New Green Revolution (Montefalco 2015)

  The project called New Green Revolution was created in 2010, when the Grand Cru Association of Montefalco decided the adoption of a new innovative production practice, to improve the quality of produc [...]

• Organic Wine (EU certification)

  A wine can be defined “Organic” when it is produced according to the Regulation of t [...]

• EntWine Australia

  EntWine is the Australian wine industry’s national sustainability program, a voluntary environmental assurance program available to all Australian wine companies and grape growers set up to support [...]

• Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand

  Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand was established in 1995 as an industry initiative directed through New Zealand Winegrowers. It is a proactive environmental management system that enables the produ [...]

• Course on sustainable use of agrochemicals

  The training aims to making the main actors of the wine's production chain responsible and aware about sustainable use of agrochemicals. The course includes the 12 subject of the mandatory trainin [...]

• Champagne Business Environmental Management system

  in the early 2000s, the entire Champagne industry has undertaken an environmental impact assessment, that identifies four key areas for action: control of inputs and their potential impact on he [...]