Environment
Climate change and environmental degradation are an existential threat to Europe and the world and have become a priority for EU policymakers and consumers alike. To address this challenge, the EU is committed to sustainable development, growth, and job creation by designing and implementing policies that support the environmental sustainability of the EU as a whole. Achieving this means promoting better products, more efficient production methods and improved consumption patterns.
In line with this commitment, the European Commission adopted the Green Deal as the EU’s roadmap to climate neutrality by 2050, transforming environmental challenges into opportunities through initiatives like the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies, and by revising key legislation to support a fair and inclusive green transition
In this context, environmental sustainability has been identified as one of the priorities of work for CEEV and it was decided to upgrade CEEV’s works on environmental and sustainability issues by developing a comprehensive roadmap.
CEEV's priorities
- Improve overall wine companies’ sustainability promoting a balanced, science-based approach across the economic, social, and environmental pillars of sustainability to ensure the long-term resilience of the sector within the evolving EU policy landscape.
- Promoting a harmonized framework of principles for sustainable grape and wine production – providing the basis for all the existing or future certification schemes intended to certify the wine sector sustainability – to be linked to EU legislation.
- Overcome the uncoordinated proliferation of environmental standards that prevents wine companies from being more competitive at international level.
- Support the EU in developing appropriate and adapted tools to measure wines’ and wine companies’ environmental performance and communicate it to consumers.
- Promote the improvement of the energy and environmental performance of wine production and trade, identifying opportunities for innovation, and coordinating the EU wine sector’s efforts towards a more environmentally sustainable viticulture as our sector’s contribution to the European Green Deal.
- Facilitate exchange and dissemination of environmental best practice within the EU wine industry.