Zero Emission Cold-Chain(ZECC) - Building the Road to Sustainable Cold-Chain Systems for Food Resilience

该项目将汇集来自英国的世界领先的跨学科研究人员，他们在食品冷链领域和可持续能源领域工作；（ii）利益相关行业；（iii）新技术创新者和（iv）从农民到零售商的冷链客户提供基本的新知识和整体系统方法，以重新定义冷链架构，并绘制到2050年实现净零排放的机会，从而同时为食品工业及其利益相关者（从农民和渔民到消费者）提供(i)需求和气候适应，（ii）弹性和（iii）冷链脱碳。食品冷链是复杂的，缺乏部门之间的整合。尽管存在技术挑战，但许多脱碳问题是技术经济或行为问题。该项目将整合技术（工程和食品质量/安全）、行为、金融和商业方面，为脱碳难题提供可持续的综合解决方案。我们60%以上的食物依赖于冷链，而冷链是我们能源需求的主要来源。该项目将为尚未从系统方法研究过的领域提供新的信息。

This project will bring together (i) world-leading interdisciplinary researchers from the UK working across the food cold chain sector and sustainable energy; (ii) stakeholder industries; (iii) new technology innovators and (iv) cold-chain customers from farmer to retailer to provide fundamental new knowledge and a whole systems approach to redefine the cold-chain architecture and map the opportunities available to reach net zero emissions by 2050 so as to deliver (i) demand and climate adaptation, (ii) resilience and (iii) decarbonisation of the cold-chain for the food industry and its stakeholders from farmer and fishers to consumers simultaneously. The food cold chain is complex and lacks integration between sectors. Although technological challenges exist, many decarbonisation issues are techno-economic or behavioural. The project will integrate technical (engineering and food quality/safety), behavioural, financial and business aspects to provide sustainable integrated solutions to the decarbonisation conundrum. More than 60% of our food is dependent on the cold-chain, and cold-chain is a major contributor to our energy demand. The project will provide new information into in a field that has not been researched from a system approach yet.