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Porto Protocol hits 130 members in less than a year

Published:  08 March, 2019

The Porto Protocol has attracted 130 businesses to sign up to the initiative launched last July with the endorsement of Barack Obama.

Fladgate Partnership’s chief executive Adrian Bridge used the Climate Change Leadership Conference - Solutions for the Wine Industry in Oporto this week, to announce the number of businesses that have agreed to form part of the Porto Protocol.

A far reaching initiative designed to encourage and enable the wine trade to step up to the pressing challenge of global warming - and, through the sharing of ideas, examples, leadership and action, not just words, promises and targets, from those that sign up, the basis of the Porto Protocol is two compromises - ‘do more tomorrow than today and - share what you are doing.

“By sharing our experiences and stimulating others to do the same we can act more quickly and have more impact. Proven solutions will be enacted and that will lead to faster change,” said Bridge.

At this year’s conference, there was a focus on actions taken to mitigate global warming as well as a focus on the importance of ‘sharing’, with key industry figures and experts taking to the stage to highlight and share what they are, and have, been doing to become greener.  

Recognising that many individuals and companies were “already doing a great deal and have been working to tackle the problems for years”, Bridge took the opportunity to reinforce that, in order to move forward, it was now “time to share out information and to learn from each other”.

"New ideas are coming up all the time, but we can't wait for some magic solution to appear and thereby avoid the hard work and the hard chases. The mitigation challenge we face is a very tough one and it’s getting tougher," he added.

“The industry is all the way agricultural and therefore is the most vulnerable to climate change. We need to find solutions and show other companies how they can do more.”

The event concluded yesterday (7 March) with a much anticipated speech by former US vice president Al Gore, who followed in the footsteps of last year’s keynote speaker, Barack Obama, who inaugurated the first Climate Change Leadership Conference.