Canary in a Coalmine

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On February 2nd in Milan, Superstudio Piu’ will open up its spaces to Affordable Art Fair, contemporary art at affordable prices. It’s also the location chosen by Bisol General Manager, Gianluca Bisol and Marco Trevisan, Director of Affordable Art Fair Milan, to celebrate the winner of a visual competition called “Talento cerca Talento” the objective of which was creating the label of Riserva Brut, one of the Bisol Millesimati Talento Metodo Classico.

On February 2nd in Milan, Superstudio Piu’ will open up its spaces to Affordable Art Fair, contemporary art at affordable prices. It’s also the location chosen by Bisol General Manager, Gianluca Bisol and Marco Trevisan, Director of Affordable Art Fair Milan, to celebrate the winner of a visual competition called “Talento cerca Talento” the objective of which was creating the label of Riserva Brut, one of the Bisol Millesimati Talento Metodo Classico.

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An acre of Prosecco worth more than Napa (equal time for the Prosecco consortium) by DoBianchi This is a follow up on the recent post I read and reblogged on the prosecco debate. Giancarlo (Giancarlo Vettorello is the Prosecco consortium’s director) contended that while the origins of Prosecco may be humble, it has become one of the world’s most “recognizable wines” and is sold today in mind-boggling volume. He also pointed out that the Centro di ricerca per la viticoltura (Center for Viticultural Research) was founded in Conegliano — Prosecco’s historic epicenter — in 1923, an innovative and ground-breaking institution and a leader in enology that predates the emergence of the sparkling wine industry in Franciacorta, Trentino, and Oltrepò Pavese. In particular, he noted, Professor Tullio De Rosa, who came to the center in 1966, developed techniques for the vinification of white and sparkling wines that reshaped Italian viticulture for the generation that followed (it’s also worth noting the pantheon of Italian wine luminaries who worked at the center, like Michele Giusti, Giovanni Dalmasso, and Luigi Manzoni). In all fairness, he has a point. Prosecco is one of Italy’s leading brands and exports — like Campari, Perugina, Barilla, De Cecco. And in a relatively short arc of time, the architects of its success have created an interest and awareness of the brand that was unimaginable in the late 1990s when they began to market Prosecco aggressively to U.S. consumers. I think it’s safe to say that U.S. consumers are more likely to know the name of two Prosecco producers than they are to know the names of two wineries in Chianti (a brand that emerged three centuries ago). Read more

An acre of Prosecco worth more than Napa (equal time for the Prosecco consortium) by DoBianchi

This is a follow up on the recent post I read and reblogged on the prosecco debate.

Giancarlo (Giancarlo Vettorello is the Prosecco consortium’s director) contended that while the origins of Prosecco may be humble, it has become one of the world’s most “recognizable wines” and is sold today in mind-boggling volume.

He also pointed out that the Centro di ricerca per la viticoltura (Center for Viticultural Research) was founded in Conegliano — Prosecco’s historic epicenter — in 1923, an innovative and ground-breaking institution and a leader in enology that predates the emergence of the sparkling wine industry in Franciacorta, Trentino, and Oltrepò Pavese. In particular, he noted, Professor Tullio De Rosa, who came to the center in 1966, developed techniques for the vinification of white and sparkling wines that reshaped Italian viticulture for the generation that followed (it’s also worth noting the pantheon of Italian wine luminaries who worked at the center, like Michele Giusti, Giovanni Dalmasso, and Luigi Manzoni).

In all fairness, he has a point. Prosecco is one of Italy’s leading brands and exports — like Campari, Perugina, Barilla, De Cecco. And in a relatively short arc of time, the architects of its success have created an interest and awareness of the brand that was unimaginable in the late 1990s when they began to market Prosecco aggressively to U.S. consumers. I think it’s safe to say that U.S. consumers are more likely to know the name of two Prosecco producers than they are to know the names of two wineries in Chianti (a brand that emerged three centuries ago).

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Why high-carbon investment could be the next sub-prime crisis This article by Ben Caldecott analyses a report publish on Monday that reveals this risk. More money is flowing into clean technologies than ever before – a record £150bn of investment last year – but money is also still pouring into coal, oil, gas, mining and other high-carbon sectors at a pace that severely undermines our efforts to tackle climate change and other environmental challenges.  Judging from many recent high-carbon endorsements, “let the good times roll” appears to be the tune to which the high-carbon incumbents across the world are dancing. The implications of locking in high-carbon investments are huge and long term. I share Ben’s view that the future does not belong to the old high-carbon economy – whether that’s because of climate change, energy security or progress – and that policy and technology will over time significantly reduce the returns from high-carbon sectors while increasing returns from low-carbon ones, then long-term bets on high carbon sectors seem irrational. They are made even more irrational by the fact that these bets will in themselves feed a vicious circle that increases the odds of entire investment portfolios being hit negatively by greater climate and environmental risks.  There’s a contraddiction here, isn’t there? Read more

Why high-carbon investment could be the next sub-prime crisis

This article by Ben Caldecott analyses a report publish on Monday that reveals this risk.

More money is flowing into clean technologies than ever before – a record £150bn of investment last year – but money is also still pouring into coal, oil, gas, mining and other high-carbon sectors at a pace that severely undermines our efforts to tackle climate change and other environmental challenges. 

Judging from many recent high-carbon endorsements, “let the good times roll” appears to be the tune to which the high-carbon incumbents across the world are dancing. The implications of locking in high-carbon investments are huge and long term.

I share Ben’s view that the future does not belong to the old high-carbon economy – whether that’s because of climate change, energy security or progress – and that policy and technology will over time significantly reduce the returns from high-carbon sectors while increasing returns from low-carbon ones, then long-term bets on high carbon sectors seem irrational. They are made even more irrational by the fact that these bets will in themselves feed a vicious circle that increases the odds of entire investment portfolios being hit negatively by greater climate and environmental risks. 

There’s a contraddiction here, isn’t there?

Read more

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