Concha y Toro among the 10 companies with the best management of climate change

For the second year, Capital magazine, together with Fundación Chile, prepared a ranking of the companies in Chile best prepared to face climate change. 94 companies were evaluated through a questionnaire seeking to know their level of corporate commitment with this problem and what place climate change takes in their business strategies.

Concha y Toro took part in this measurement for the first time and obtained a respectable 9th place, highlighting the wine sector as an industry which is advanced in the matter, with low relative emissions that are highly demanded by external markets in this differentiating attribute.

“This is recognition of our performance until now and challenges us to continue progressing with our sustainability strategy and thus maintain our position as a benchmark in the wine sector in this area”, says Valentina Lira, assistant manager for sustainable development.

It is important to stress that the list of companies includes those in retail, wineries and forestry, which presented their principal projects, concrete actions and commitments made to meet environmental challenges successfully. In our case, the carbon and water footprint measurements, plus the light-bottles project, energy audits and progressive changes in lighting in bottling plants and cellars, were praised as successful initiatives in the challenge of facing this matter effectively.

This year, 94 companies participated in the ranking, answering different questions relating to 5 central aspects:

1. Governance, strategies and policies

2. Measurement of the carbon footprint

3. Concrete actions

4. Communication of results

5. Tendencies in climate change.