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Sustainability
Sustainability has been a fundamental part of the New Zealand wine industry for well over 20 years. Over 96% of New Zealand’s vineyard area is Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand certified.
Ongoing commitment
to sustainability
Over the past 12 months, NZW has implemented of a range of strategic and operational initiatives, intended to refocus and reinforce our industry’s commitment to sustainability.
These have included:
• The appointment of a General
Manager Sustainability in September 2019 and subsequent structural changes to the Environment Group at NZW;
• The launch and ongoing delivery of the Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand (SWNZ) scorecard review project;
• The refocus on six core areas of sustainability: water, waste, pest and disease, climate change, people and soil.
• The decision to implement a phased withdrawal of organophosphates from the Spray Schedule;
• The decision to close the SWNZ Continuous Improvement pilot and launch the Sustainability Guardians programme;
• Adopting key environmental industry health indicators of sustainability;
• Setting a climate change goal for the industry to become carbon neutral by 2050 and implementing a climate change work programme;
• Re-confirming the goals, objectives, and performance indicators of the NZW biosecurity strategy.
Taken together, these initiatives signal a growing momentum that will take our sustainability initiatives to a new level. Collectively, they help
to protect and enhance the reputation of New Zealand
wine, and act as a key
differentiator for our
product as the industry
recovers from the
impacts of COVID-19.
Improving the relevance
of SWNZ
Over the past nine
months, NZW and
two Scorecard Technical Advisory Groups have been working to streamline the SWNZ
vineyard and winery scorecards, around the six focus areas. This work seeks to strengthen the industry’s reputation for sustainability while improving the relevance of SWNZ
for members’ businesses. The new scorecards are expected to be delivered by November 2020. These revised scorecards will help to ensure SWNZ remains a world-leading sustainability programme, with an increased focus on quantitative data.u
Pest and Disease
6 FOCUS AREAS OF SUSTAINABILITY
Climate Change
People
Waste
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Soil Water