Paris  - There is red wine and white wine, and now French wine may be green as well.

The Bordeaux wine industry said it intends to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 15 per cent over five years and by 75 per cent by 2050, the online trade publication just-drinks. com reported on Friday.

"These are very realistic objectives and we know what we need to do," Muriel Barthe of the Bordeaux Wine Council (CIVB) said.

The targets were announced earlier this week after an evaluation revealed that Bordeaux winemakers produce 200,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.

The main culprits are the production of glass bottles, which produces 48 per cent of the emissions, and the transport of the popular Bordeaux wines throughout the world, responsible for about 18 per cent.

Other factors measured included the travel of winemakers to promote their products and emissions from tourists visiting the region.

Solutions were said to include the use of lighter bottles, increased use of rail and sea freight and the reduction of fertilizers. (dpa)