Delivering food from farm to consumer safely requires a suitable temperature-controlled environment. In many countries, food is lost between farm and market due to gaps in cold-chain infrastructure, resulting in 475 million tonnes or 13% of total food production being lost, which is worth $350 billion and enough to feed approximately 950 million people.

Energy efficient, ozone and climate-friendly cold chains help ensure nutritious and healthy food for all. How do we realize the critical potential of cold chains in providing food safety and security, reducing food loss and waste, mitigating climate change and preventing the depletion of the ozone layer?

Phasing out of ozone-depleting substances and phasing down the consumption of HFCs through the Montreal Protocol and its Kigali Amendment is largely contributing to slowing down climate change and boosting energy efficiency in the cooling sector.

The event will put a spot light on the critical role of sustainable cold chains in ensuring food safety and security, reducing food waste and loss, mitigating climate change and preventing the depletion of the ozone layer; and demonstrate how the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, universally ratified multilateral environmental agreement, its Kigali Amendment and its Rome Declaration on Sustainable Cold Chain Development, can contribute to scale up technological and policy solutions for sustainable cold chains.

Join the online event on 20 September 2021 at 2:00 pm CET

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