VSPT Wine Group, which owns brands including Leyda, Graffigna and San Pedro, has slashed its carbon emissions per litre of wine produced by 47%, compared to its 2019 baseline year (when it began working towards this goal).
The feat was achieved well in advance of VSPT’s initial target of reducing its carbon footprint (Scopes 1, 2 and 3) by 40% by 2030, with the wine group meeting and exceeding its CO₂ goal in early 2025. The company, which produces 17 million cases of wine per year, also plans to send zero waste to landfill by 2030.
How did they do it?
According to Carolina Gotuzzo, corporate affairs and sustainability director at VSPT, the group managed to significantly cut its carbon by “switching to clean energy sources and reducing the use of agrochemicals in vineyards”, as well as “continuously optimising its production processes” to conserve energy.
Currently, VSPT’s industrial operations are powered with 100% renewable energy and the company generates 42% of its own renewable electricity — 14% from solar panels installed on its estates and 86% from a biogas plant in Chilean city Molina where clean electricity is produced “from organic waste from the grape harvest”.
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