Jean Zeid 06:57, February 21, 2024, modified at 07:01, February 21, 2024
Every morning, Jean Zeid delivers the best in terms of innovation. This Wednesday, he returns to the startup FoodPilot, the most comprehensive and efficient CSR management tool on the market for stakeholders in agriculture and the agri-food industry.
This morning, wine in turn chases away carbon.
And to lead this hunt for CO2, you still need to know your own production in this area. This is what a Montpellier start-up Wine Pilot by Food Pilot offers. Providing winegrowers with a reliable carbon footprint almost in real time, from the vineyard to the end customer and comparing them to the inter-professional objectives. We are talking about -60% CO2 by 2030, that is not a small saving.
Has the tool already convinced winegrowers?
Yes, and not the least. The tool has been in testing for two years with the Burgundy Wine Inter-Profession (BIVB) allowing its designers to refine WinePilot, a platform which should help the wine industry to assess its carbon footprint and take action to reduce it. It must be said that it is quite simple to get started. Of course you have to give indications on its operation, answer questions, but it happens rather intuitively and above all, all this has been simplified, we are talking a lot at the moment about this simplification, Wine Pilot has for example divided by two the questions,
And this is only for wine growers?
Wine growers, cooperative cellars or trading houses, Wine Pilot gives them carbon emissions data in real time and adapts to the types of activity of each. But the platform also offers solutions to reduce and achieve carbon neutrality and this is obviously based on the major CO2 emission positions in the sector. The first of these is packaging, 30% of the CO2 balance all the same, mobility (26%), freight (13%), viticulture itself with 11% of the overall balance, the vat room ( 5%), and waste (<1%).
WinePilot which is now offered to the 3,600 estates, 270 trading houses and 16 cooperative cellars in the Burgundian wine landscape from March.
Have other interprofessional organizations been convinced?
The IVSO, we love surnames in France, the Interprofession des Vins du Sud-Ouest will also offer the WinePilot platform to wine and wine companies, with Aveyron in the lead. Note that this sector is already involved in this CO2 reduction monument. On a national scale, for 15 years in the different wine-growing regions, carbon footprints have improved. WinePilot proposes to be even more ambitious and move towards carbon neutrality.