Jackson Family Wines was recently named the 2020 Green Company of the Year by The Drinks Business (U.K.), as part of the publication’s annual Green Awards that aim to raise awareness of sustainability issues in the global beverage trade industry and also recognize those companies and people who are leading the way in environmental and social performance. Each year, the drinks business selects a Green Award for Company of the Year to recognize a company or organization that has clearly demonstrated its commitment to the environment in changing and improving its business practices to better its carbon footprint. The judges consider companies that have improved its own direct impact on the surrounding environment and promoted this effectively to a wider audience, while also clearly demonstrating all the way in which they have sought to better its green credentials over the last three years, with focus on activities undertaken in the last 12 months.
“All of us at Jackson Family Wines are honored to receive this prestigious international recognition from the Drinks Business for our sustainability and climate action initiatives,” said Katie Jackson, second-generation proprietor and senior vice president of corporate responsibility at Jackson Family Wines, in a prepared statement. “As a multigenerational family wine business, environmental stewardship is at the heart of everything we do across all our global operations—from our farming and winemaking practices to our sales and distribution channels, and beyond.”
Since planting its first vines in 1974, the Jackson family has crafted exceptional wines rooted in environmental stewardship and social responsibility through land conservation, low impact farming, innovative water conservation and energy management, as well as business practices that aim to improve the lives of its workers and communities. The wine company has been measuring its carbon footprint since 2008, and since 2015, it has reduced absolute greenhouse gas emissions across Scopes 1-3 by 17.5%. Following on that progress, the company recently made a public commitment to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030 and become Climate Positive by 2050, without the purchase of offsets, which is in line with the 1.5C reduction targets that the scientific community agrees are required for the planet to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
