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Climate Change and the Wine Industry

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Climate Change and the Wine Industry

The higher temperature in the region forces most winemakers to shift to cool growing
environments. Wine producers thus are stimulated to increase the irrigation process, and by this,
they try in cooling the grapes by sprinkling and misting water on the grapes. Therefore,
Vineyards move to places such as the Greater ecosystem Yellowstone, which then cause's fresh
conservation challenges (Ollat et al. 2016).
The expectation of increased pest insects and the borne insect diseases results from more
precipitation and higher temperatures prevailing in the climate change that is anticipated to
increase grape insect pests likelihood. The higher temperatures prevailing make it easier for more
pest insect species to thrive long and range to a greater distance; the shorter and mild winter
cannot damage or kill the harmful pests in the field (Galbreath et al. 2016).
Wildfires that are devastating in the regions for wine growing, the devastating and
extreme fires that result in these regions sweep away a number of the main wine-producing
regions in the latest years Oregon included, including Spain, Greece, California and Austria. The
extreme temperature, dry conditions, long warm seasons and increase in fuel availability are
associated with climate change, increasing the risks associated with the wildfire. Fire ravages the
vineyard and destroys the types of equipment for winemaking. A fair distance away from the
vineyard poses a great threat to grapes, and the exposure to smoke when the grapes are oriented
to wildfire creates an ashy aroma to the grapes (Merloni et al. 2018).

The warmer temperature found in England due to climate change provides an

environment that is adaptable to the production of wine. The sector used in growing wine in
England is beneficial as it is a warmer climate of about 13 degrees Celsius average temperature
(Ollat et al. 2016).
Cultivating practices as the adaptation practices in responding to climate change are the
removal of leaves from the grape plants, phytosanitary treatment, management of soil practices
like irrigation of the plants, and soil preparation. All of these practices enable greater wine
production in most regions.
Use of the adaptation potential included in a single grape variety; this is done by selecting
varieties of grapes offering potential in coping with climate change effects from the previous
pool of genetic plants cultivated in a specific region. The other option is to use varieties ranging
from warm to dry climates; this is essential because different varieties have different potentials in
coping with drought and heat (Galbreath et al. 2016).
When there is a competition for a certain brand of wine, most of the region's growing
grapes for wine production will have to adapt to the climate to provide and produce the best wine
in the regions. By practising all the adaptive practices resulting from climate change, the regions
where the best wine is produced are recognized that the producers of the best wine get to be
influenced positively (Merloni et al. 2018).
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Factors to consider in the decision making of a future company by the owners of capital-
intensive firms are; risk factors, labour efficiency, services provided, the productivity of the firm,
and the maintenance assets (Galbreath et al. 2016).
Climate change decision making emerged in the late years to be an area of practice and
research, thus expanding an earlier focus on climate policy; decision-makers thus have to
contend with the quality and availability of information (Merloni et al. 2018).
The lessons are that the climate change disrupts the availability of food and, at the same
time, reduces food access in the regions, affecting of quality of food is also a lesson preferred;
this is seen when temperature increases, precipitation pattern changes, change of the extreme
events of weather and reduction in the availability of water can result in a reduction of
productivity in agricultural produce.
Lessons that can apply to other business types are; evaluating the combination of
adaptive strategies providing good solutions for climate change adaptation and the multi-scale
studies allowing for local opportunities and constraints to be considered.
Examples of industries adapting to the change in climate are the manufacturing
industries like steel production, cement, chemical and paper manufacturing industries. These
manufacturing operations are adversely affected by a change in climate regulations resulting in
important greenhouse gases emissions done directly (Ollat et al. 2016).
Countries such as England have an ethical obligation in assisting the other countries in
winemaking firms that are surely affected by the climate change negatively; this is so because
the adaptation potential techniques used are those that enable negativity effect of the climate
change.
It is ethically questionable in profiting from a world crisis such as a change in climate
because it also favours the production of wine in some countries like England.
The reader can align the interest of losers and winners from the issue of climate change in
the place of those countries that the climate change affects negatively, thus lowering their
produce to be losers while those that climate change affects positively, increasing the product to
be winners.
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References
Galbreath, J., Charles, D., & Oczkowski, E. (2016). The drivers of climate change innovations:
evidence from the Australian wine industry. Journal of Business Ethics, 135(2), 217-231.
Merloni, E., Camanzi, L., Mulazzani, L., & Malorgio, G. (2018). Adaptive capacity to climate
change in the wine industry: A Bayesian Network approach. Wine Economics and
Policy, 7(2), 165-177.
Ollat, N., Touzard, J. M., & van Leeuwen, C. (2016). Climate change impacts and adaptations:
New challenges for the wine industry. Journal of Wine Economics, 11(1), 139-149.