Our Positive Impact & Sustainability journey

If we Google the word sustainability, we will mainly find images associated with the environment. It is quite unusual to find pictures of people when we definitely have a direct effect on the natural environment. Our impact is holistic, not only on the environment but also on the rest of society and all forms of business. It is important to understand sustainability as a systemic correlation between different parts of a whole system. We need to understand all of them, their interactions, and causation, and apply scientific knowledge in this field.

Education, collaboration, transparency and trust are some of the most powerful leverage tools within the sustainability framework for Alliance Wine. 

Education is key to generating more impact within society and accentuating the importance for businesses to confront the global, environmental and economic challenges that we are currently facing.

Collaboration is essential to find common ground for the challenges that every professional in the wine sector, and society in general, is having to deal with.

Sustainability and Positive Impact are concepts that can be used synonymously, but the meanings are slightly different. SUSTAINABILITY is based on the idea of how the world should be to be able to secure our needs and continue growing without compromising future generations. When we talk about POSITIVE IMPACT, we refer to a powerful effect that something, especially something new, has on someone or something. Positive Impact moves one step ahead. It is based on the idea of executing sustainability strategies and applying them to business models, so as to create products and services that offer solutions to the challenges that we are facing. Alliance Wine aims to create products and offer services to our customers that require an innovative mindset and offer real solutions to real problems.

Considering the current climate emergency, our positive impact strategy embraces an important number of environmental challenges. Several working groups are focused on the relevant areas of our operational activities, such as a greenhouse gas emissions inventory for scopes 1-3 to establish annual reduction targets with an important interest in the optimisation of national and international supply chain activities, as well as insetting activities within our supply chain. Initiatives are also being undertaken based on external energy assessment in order to reduce energy usage in our facilities. As well as waste management and policies to streamline our operations and reduce our waste disposal. Furthermore, environmental standards are being set regarding business decisions and relationships with our suppliers. All these activities require the use of circular economy and innovation in all areas as leverage tools.

People are the centre of any positive impact strategy. For this reason, we focus an important part of our resources on social objectives established in our positive impact strategy. Our employees are the heart of this new culture, so we want to enhance their professional growth and welfare with diverse internal activities such as employee development and well-being initiatives. These include the introduction of positive impact responsibilities in job descriptions to maintain a holistic approach to our strategy. Finally, we embrace other social challenges, such as encouraging responsible drinking through the creation of a genuine social responsibility policy.