It would be very sad if, at the end of these days, the focus was on politics and not climate change.” So said Michelle Bouffard, founder of Tasting Climate Change, which took place in a crisp and wintery Montreal earlier this year, where a strong Canadian and US contingency was joined by many international visitors. Spread over three days, one of the key takeaways from the many experts speaking was that climate change and its associated environmental impact is the story that trumps all. Yet there is still a sense that we as an industry are sleepwalking into what could be a radically altered near future.

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