Spain announces five year plan to combat climate change
This week, the Federación Española del Vino (FEV) revealed that it has formulated a plan to tackle the effects of climate change on the vineyard between now and 2029.
Spain has felt the brunt of climate change perhaps more severely than any other wine nation, with long-term droughts leaving great swathes of the country’s vineyards parched – especially in Catalonia.
The FEV’s plan, which was first drafted in 2018 and has now been updated, was presented to Teresa Ribera, Minister for the Ecological Transition of Spain, and Luis Planas, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and the FEV executive committee at a meeting held at Bodegas Protos in Ribera del Duero earlier this week.
According to a press release from the FEV: “Its [the plan’s] main objective is to establish sectoral adaptation measures focused on alleviating the effects of climate change on Spanish vineyards, and being able to guarantee not only quality raw materials, but also the sustainability of the sector in both the medium- and the long-term.”
“In addition to expanding the technical information on the different measures for adaptation to and mitigation of climate change, this update includes an ordering of priorities, and preliminarily identifies some lines of action,” the release continued. “It also takes stock of the actions carried out in the previous plan and, in order to facilitate future monitoring, defines specific indicators for each new line of work, also identifying the main possible financing avenues and proposals.”
The precise details of what this plan entails, and which “lines of action” have been identified, are not yet publicly available, though they will be once approved by the FEV executive committee and other bodies in the wine sector.
Other issues discussed at the meeting, the first of the new FEV executive committee to be held outside of Madrid, included the current harvest and cracking down on minors drinking.
Information from The Drinks Business
