Can a company keep growing and still cut emissions

Caroline Merrell, senior director of sustainable winemaking at Jackson Family Wines, shares how her company set a science-based climate target, the challenges of reducing emissions in a growing business, and the actions working now such as using less glass in wine bottles, installing solar on farms, and looking at supply chain emissions.

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Resources

SHIFT guide, professional climate action: https://jointheshift.earth/climate-actions/work-sbt

Science based targets initiative: https://sciencebasedtargets.org/corporate-net-zero-standard-v2

International Wineries for Climate Action emissions counting tool: https://www.iwcawine.org/post/quick-guide-iwca-ghg-calculators

Background information on soil carbon sequestration: https://drawdown.org/sector-2025/nature-based-carbon-removal

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