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Charles Lachaux signe un accord exclusif de distribution directe au consommateur avec la communauté vinicole basée sur blockchain Crurated

Les clients de Crurated disposeront d’un accès spécial aux vins en petite production de Lachaux, très prisés dans le monde entier

LONDRES, 18 juill. 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —

Charles Lachaux, le viticulteur le plus avant-gardiste de Bourgogne a annoncé aujourd’hui une association exclusive avec la communauté de vins basée sur blockchain Crurated. Selon les conditions de l’accord, les vins célèbres et primés de Lachaux, de petite production et très prisés dans le monde entier, seront vendus exclusivement aux membres de Crurated. Vous trouverez plus de détails sur les offres et sur l’abonnement à Crurated sur www.Crurated.com.

Des offres spéciales seront publiées pour les membres, en plusieurs phases, tout au long de l’année. La première offre comprend 1 caisse avec un assortiment de six appellations d’origine :

  • Bourgogne Aligoté, Les Champs d’Argent, 2021
  • Bourgogne Rouge, La Croix Blanche, 2021
  • Côte de Nuits Village, Aux Montagnes, 2021
  • Aloxe-Corton premier cru, Les Valozières, 2021
  • Nuits Saint Georges village, La Petite Charmotte, 2021
  • Nuits Saint Georges premier cru, Aux Argillas, 2021

Les vins seront proposés aux membres de Crurated à travers une vente privée, à partir du 25 juillet.

« L’innovation appliquée à l’élaboration du vin est la clé pour produire et distribuer une bouteille de vin d’exception », a affirmé Charles. « Durant des décennies, le vin a été distribué aux amateurs les plus exigeants sans se soucier d’améliorer le processus. Crurated permet l’accès aux vins rares et l’utilisation de la technologie blockchain et NFT offre aux acheteurs l’authenticité et la provenance, si nécessaires au sein de cette industrie. Ils sont le partenaire idéal pour nous, au fur et à mesure que nous nous lançons dans une nouvelle étape de ventes directes de vin au consommateur. »

« Notre équipe a la chance de travailler avec les meilleurs vins et cavistes du monde et Charles Lachaux n’est pas une exception », a déclaré Alfonso de Gaetano, fondateur de Crurated. « Notre plateforme technologique basée sur la blockchain a transformé la façon d’acheter et de vendre des vins rares. Nous sommes la première communauté de vins basée sur ses membres qui offre une totale transparence et la protection de la valeur des actifs. Ce modèle redéfinit déjà la cave, au-delà de ses quatre murs. »

Chaque bouteille sera accompagnée d’un NFT. Enregistré pour toujours sur la blockchain, le NFT vérifiera l’authenticité de la bouteille et offrira d’autres informations importantes, comme l’historique de propriété, le millésime, l’emplacement du domaine, le cépage ainsi que d’autres détails clés. Il est très facile d’accéder aux NFT en touchant un téléphone avec NFC ou RFID. L’historique de la bouteille sera également mis à jour à travers un nouveau registre de blockchain, chaque fois que le vin est revendu et le token passe d’un client à un autre.

Même si les vins de Charles Lachaux seront vendus directement aux consommateurs, exclusivement à travers la plateforme Crurated, les distributeurs continueront à traiter les ventes aux restaurants B2B.

À propos de Charles Lachaux
Charles Lachaux a apporté des changements révolutionnaires à la viticulture d’Arnoux-Lachaux, en faisant reculer les limites de la viticulture bourguignonne actuelle. Décrit par Jancis Robinson comme « une nouvelle étoile étincelante », il incarne la nouvelle génération. En 2021, Charles a été élu « meilleur jeune œnologue du monde » aux Golden Vines Awards qui se sont déroulés à Londres. Il est un grand défenseur de la plantation de haute densité, des faibles rendements et du travail intensif sur le domaine, qui implique le retour au palissage au lieu de tailler les sarments. Lachaux fait partie de la sixième génération qui s’occupe du domaine familial, situé à Vosne-Romanée (Côte-d’Or).

À propos de Crurated
Lancée en 2021, notamment en France et en Italie, Crurated est une communauté de vins basée sur l’adhésion des membres et conçue pour mettre en relation les connaisseurs et les producteurs les plus prestigieux du monde. Une équipe de spécialistes propose des services personnalisés et des expériences authentiques, tandis que le service logistique sans faille de Crurated garantit la qualité et l’origine grâce à un stockage sûr en cave et à l’innovation technologique de la blockchain. Pour toute information complémentaire sur Crurated, visitez crurated.com.

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Charles Lachaux assina acordo exclusivo de distribuição direta ao consumidor com associação de comunidade de vinhos Crurated com base em blockchain

Clientes da Crurated terão acesso especial às pequenas produções de vinhos da Lachaux que estão em alta demanda em todo o mundo

LONDRES, July 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Charles Lachaux, o enólogo mais visionário de Borgonha, anunciou hoje uma parceria exclusiva com a comunidade de vinhos Crurated com base em blockchain. Sob os termos do acordo, os vinhos famosos e premiados de Lachaux, uma pequena produção de alta demanda em todo o mundo, serão vendidos exclusivamente para os associados da Crurated. Para mais detalhes sobre as ofertas e sobre a adesão à Crurated, visite www.Crurated.com.

Os associados terão acesso a ofertas especiais em várias fases durante o ano. A primeira oferta inclui uma caixa mista com seis vinhos:

  • Bourgogne Aligoté, Les Champs d’Argent, 2021
  • Bourgogne Rouge, La Croix Blanche, 2021
  • Côte de Nuits Village, Aux Montagnes, 2021
  • Aloxe-Corton premier cru, Les Valozières, 2021
  • Aldeia Nuits Saint Georges, La Petite Charmotte, 2021
  • Nuits Saint Georges premier cru, Aux Argillas, 2021

A partir de 25 de julho, os vinhos passarão a ser oferecidos aos associados da Crurated por meio de venda privada.

“A inovação na vinificação é fundamental para a produção e distribuição de uma garrafa de vinho excepcional”, disse Charles. “Há muitas décadas os vinhos têm sido distribuídos aos apreciadores de vinho mais exigentes sem atenção em como o processo pode ser melhorado. A Crurated simplifica o acesso aos vinhos raros e o uso da tecnologia blockchain e NFT proporciona aos compradores a autenticidade e a proveniência muito necessárias nesta indústria. Eles são o nosso parceiro ideal em uma nova era de vendas diretas de vinho ao consumidor.”

“A nossa equipe tem a sorte de trabalhar com os melhores vinhos e enólogos do mundo, e Charles Lachaux não é exceção”, disse Alfonso de Gaetano, Fundador da Crurated. “Nossa plataforma de tecnologia com base em blockchain, revolucionou a maneira como os vinhos raros são comprados e vendidos. Somos a primeira associação de comunidade de vinhos a oferecer total transparência e proteção do valor patrimonial. Este modelo está quebrando as quatro paredes das adegas.”

Cada garrafa terá uma NFT. Registrada para sempre na blockchain, a NFT irá confirmar a autenticidade da garrafa e fornecer outros detalhes importantes, incluindo histórico de propriedade, safra, localização da vinícola, varietal e outros detalhes importantes. As NFTs são facilmente acessíveis tocando em um telefone habilitado para NFC ou RFID. O histórico da garrafa também é atualizado por meio de uma nova blockchain sempre que o vinho é revendido e o token é transferido de um cliente para outro.

Embora os vinhos Charles Lachaux sejam vendidos diretamente com exclusividade aos consumidores na plataforma Crurated, as vendas B2B para restaurantes continuarão a ser realizadas pelos distribuidores.

Sobre Charles Lachaux
Charles Lachaux fez mudanças revolucionárias na viticultura quando na Arnoux-Lachaux, ampliando os limites da vinificação borgonhesa de hoje. Mencionado por Jancis Robinson como “uma nova estrela brilhante”, ele representa a nova geração. Em 2021, Charles foi escolhido “o melhor enólogo jovem do planeta” no Golden Vines Awards, realizado em Londres. Ele é um defensor do plantio de alta densidade, baixos rendimentos e trabalho intensivo em vinhedos, inclusive treinar suas videiras em longos “arcos” em vez de podar os brotos. Lachaux representa a 6ª geração a cuidar do patrimônio da família localizado em Vosne-Romanée (Côte-d’Or).

Sobre a Crurated
Lançada em 2021 com ênfase na França e na Itália, a Crurated é uma associação da comunidade vinícola criada para conectar conhecedores e produtores de todo o mundo. Uma equipe de especialistas oferece serviços personalizados e experiências autênticas, enquanto o serviço de logística contínuo da Crurated garante a qualidade e a proveniência, graças ao armazenamento seguro da adega e à inovadora tecnologia blockchain. Para mais informação sobre a Crurated, visite crurated.com.

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Geospatial Industry Luminary Hired as Senior Strategic Advisor at AAM, a Woolpert Company

MELBOURNE, Australia, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse, Ph.D., a global geospatial leader, has joined the leadership team at AAM, a Woolpert Company. Mohamed-Ghouse will serve as a senior advisor for strategy and innovation within Woolpert’s geospatial leadership team, further strengthening the global geospatial company’s services and capabilities.

Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse, Ph.D., has joined AAM, a Woolpert Company.

Mohamed-Ghouse brings more than 25 years of experience with international engineering consultancies, working across government, academic, research and corporate sectors. He has held senior leadership roles at multilateral geospatial organisations, including United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management-Networks and World Geospatial Industry Council, and has led multimillion-dollar projects for state and federal government clients in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. A professor at universities in India and Australia, Mohamed-Ghouse outlines how spatial sciences improve the built environment.

Woolpert’s Asia Pacific Vice President and AAM Managing Director Brian Nicholls said that Mohamed-Ghouse’s extensive geospatial consulting expertise will provide Woolpert clients with tailored, impactful solutions.

“Zaffar has demonstrated his ability to deliver positive change throughout the industry, and we look forward to working with him, learning from him and building on his expertise and experience,” Nicholls said.

AAM was acquired by Woolpert in 2021. Woolpert Senior Vice President Joseph Seppi said the addition of Mohamed-Ghouse provides a strategic advantage for the company and greatly benefits its clients around the world.

Mohamed-Ghouse spoke of the opportunities he sees in joining Woolpert.

“This is an amazing, diverse, multicultural team with varied technical skills and expertise,” Mohamed-Ghouse said. “I look forward to working with this group and expanding our broad service portfolio to advance the geospatial industry.”

About AAM, a Woolpert Company
AAM, a Woolpert Company, is a geospatial technology company, specialising in collection, analysis and integration of geospatial information. AAM believes that digital maps and measurement make our world a better place. By capturing, measuring and presenting geospatial data, AAM helps clients make more informed decisions in an increasingly complex world. Woolpert is the premier architecture, engineering, geospatial (AEG) and strategic consulting firm, with a vision to become one of the best companies in the world. Founded in 1911, Woolpert has been America’s fastest-growing AEG firm since 2015. The firm has 1,900 employees and 60 offices on four continents. Visit aamgroup.com and woolpert.com.

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Multilateral Efforts Needed to Reverse Climate Crisis, Secretary-General Says, Stressing Choice between ‘Collective Action or Collective Suicide’

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the Petersburg Dialogue, in Berlin today:

Eight months ago, we left COP26 [twenty-sixth conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change] with 1.5°C on life support. Since then, its pulse has weakened further. Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise and ocean heat have broken new records. Half of humanity is in the danger zone from floods, droughts, extreme storms and wildfires.

No nation is immune. Yet, we continue to feed our fossil fuel addiction. What troubles me most is that, in facing this global crisis, we are failing to work together as a multilateral community. Nations continue to play the blame game instead of taking responsibility for our collective future.

We cannot continue this way. We must rebuild trust and come together — to keep 1.5°C alive and to build climate-resilient communities. Promises made must be promises kept. We need to move forward together on all fronts — mitigation, adaptation, finance, [and] loss and damage.

To protect people and the planet we need an all-of-the-above approach that delivers on each of these pillars of the Paris Agreement — at pace and at scale. Time is no longer on our side. First, we need to reduce emissions now. Everyone needs to revisit their nationally determined contributions.

We need to demonstrate at COP27 that a renewables revolution is under way. There is enormous potential for a just energy transition that accelerates coal phase-out with a corresponding deployment of renewables.

The agreement with South Africa last November sets a good precedent. Partnerships under discussion with Indonesia and Vietnam are also significant. They embody the potential of working together in a multilateral and collaborative spirit.

But, let me be clear: these efforts should be additional — not a replacement — to the support that developing countries need to ensure their transition to a net-zero and climate-resilient future. I look to the G7 [Group of Seven] and the G20 [Group of 20] to show leadership — on NDCs [nationally determined contributions], on renewables and on working together in good faith.

Second, we must treat adaptation with the urgency it needs. One in three people lack early warning systems coverage. People in Africa, South Asia and Central and South America are 15 times more likely to die from extreme weather events. This great injustice cannot persist. Let’s ensure universal early warning systems coverage in the next five years, as a start. And let’s demonstrate how we can double adaptation finance to $40 billion a year and how you will scale it up to equal mitigation finance.

Third, let’s get serious about the finance that developing countries need. At a minimum, stop paying lip service to the $100 billion a year pledge. Give clarity through deadlines and timelines and get concrete on its delivery. And let’s ensure that those who need funding most can access it.

As shareholders of multilateral development banks, developed countries must demand immediate delivery of the investments and assistance needed to expand renewable energy and build climate-resilience in developing countries. Demand that these banks become fit for purpose.

Demand that they change their tired frameworks and policies to take more risk and dramatically improve their dismal private investment mobilization ratio of 29 cents to the dollar. They should increase funding that does not require sovereign guarantees. And they should use partnerships and instruments to take on risk that will unleash the trillions of dollars of private investment we need. Let’s show developing countries that they can rely on their partners.

Fourth, loss and damage has languished on the side-lines for too long. It is eroding the trust we need to tackle the climate emergency together. I have seen first hand the impact of sea level rise, crippling drought and devastating floods. Loss and damage are happening now. We need a concrete global response that addresses the needs of the world’s most vulnerable people, communities and nations. The first step is to create a space within the multilateral climate process to address this issue including on finance for loss and damage.

This has to be the decade of decisive climate action. That means trust, multilateralism and collaboration. We have a choice. Collective action or collective suicide. It is in our hands. Thank you.

Source: United Nations

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Prince Harry at UN Mandela Tribute: He Saw Goodness in Humanity

Prince Harry told a United Nations commemoration on Nelson Mandela's birthday Monday that despite having suffered many injustices in his life, the South African leader always managed to find the light.

"A man who had endured the worst of humanity – vicious racism and state-sponsored brutality. A man who had lost 27 years with his children and family that he would never get back," Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, told the General Assembly, referring to the years Mandela spent in jail for fighting apartheid.

Yet in a photo with his mother, the late Diana, Princess of Wales, taken with Mandela in 1997, he said the leader is broadly smiling.

"Still able to see the goodness in humanity, still buoyant of the beautiful spirit that lifted everyone around him," he said. "Not because he was blind to the ugliness, the injustices of world. No, he saw them clearly. He had lived them. But because he knew we could overcome them."

The Queen's grandson, who left the family fold not long after his marriage to Meghan Markle and now lives in California, was the keynote speaker at the annual commemoration of Mandela that takes place on his birthday. Markle accompanied him to the U.N. event.

Harry said he made his first visit to Africa when he was 13 and always found hope there. One of his charities, Sentebale, works with vulnerable children and youth in the Southern African nations of Lesotho and Botswana.

Nelson Mandela, also known as Madiba, was a freedom fighter who was elected as South Africa's first Black president in 1994. Today marks his 104th birthday. He died at the age of 95 in December 2013.

Every five years an honorary award is given to recognize a man and a woman who have shown dedication to the service of humanity in honor of Mandela's life and legacy. Due to the pandemic, this is the first in-person U.N. commemoration since 2019.

Laureates Marianna Vardinoyannis of Greece, who was recognized for her work fighting childhood cancer, and Dr. Morissanda Kouyate of Guinea for his activism towards ending violence against women, including female genital mutilation, were the 2020 winners and recognized at Monday's event.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said of Mandela that he was a "giant of our time; a leader of unparalleled courage and towering achievement" who remains a moral compass for all.

"Today and every day, let us honor Nelson Mandela's legacy by taking action," Guterres' deputy, Amina Mohammed, said on Guterres' behalf. "By speaking out against hate and standing up for human rights. By embracing our common humanity – rich in diversity, equal in dignity, united in solidarity. And by together making our world more just, compassionate, prosperous, and sustainable for all."

Deputy Secretary-General Mohammed, who is Nigerian, said she has drawn personal inspiration from Mandela.

"I have taken to heart his profound lesson that we all have the ability – and responsibility – to take action," she said.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams also addressed the assembly. He said he has visited the tiny Robben Island cell in Cape Town, where Mandela was jailed for 27 years.

"That small cell where he endured so much was a powerful site," said Adams, who is African American. "While he was in jail, he knew that where he was was not who he was."

U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said in a written statement that she met Mandela briefly once, but it had a lasting impact on her life.

"To this day, his courage, compassion and leadership continue to inspire me as we collectively strive toward a world that is more peaceful, just and free," she said.

As part of the tributes to Mandela on his birthday, people are urged to make a difference in their communities. On Monday afternoon, U.N. staff and diplomats were to pick up litter, pull weeds and prepare food packages at a park in East Harlem, in upper Manhattan.

Source: Voice of America