Cristina Mariani-May, owner and CEO of Banfi, in recognition of her leadership in the sector, has been invited to bring her testimony as a winemaker to the wine-related climate change summit in Porto from today until 7 March.<\/span><\/p>\n 'The main focus for the future,' says Cristina Mariani-May, 'is sustainability. One of my main goals is to leave my children the area in which Banfi operates in a better state than how we found it'. She continues 'At Banfi, we started working sustainably when there was not so much talk about sustainability yet. Ensuring a balanced ecosystem, maintaining and nurturing biodiversity on our estate, always looking for new ways to keep our land healthy and our wines wholesome, as well as minimising our impact on the planet, have become our modus operandi'.<\/span><\/p>\n The wine world is strongly linked to the environment and the territory in which it works, and talking about the challenges it faces every day due to climate change, confronting winery owners, scientists, business leaders, oenologists, importers, encourages the entire sector to work together, to find short and medium term solutions, to reduce the impact on the environment. In addition to Cristina Mariani-May, there are numerous high-profile speakers who will give their testimony, including former US Vice-President Al Gore, and who together will produce the Porto Protocol.<\/span><\/p>\n In 2000, Banfi began a path on certifications that in 2006 led it to conclude a journey and obtain, as the first wine company in the world, certification for ethics and social responsibility (ISO 14001, ISO 9001 and SA 8000). Since 2015 Banfi has also been drawing up the Sustainability Report in which it reports for each year on the sustainable practices applied to each sector of its business.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Da oggi, fino al 7 marzo, a Porto si discute di cambiamento climatico, di proposte per lavorare insieme al fine di ridurre l\u2019impatto ambientale e di vere e proprie soluzioni per il settore vinicolo Cristina Mariani-May, proprietaria e CEO di Banfi, come riconoscimento della sua leadership nel settore, \u00e8 stata invitata a portare la sua […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n