The 6 key pillars support the Clean Cooling strategy and initiatives in order to achieve our goal of... An integrated programme to accelerate the deployment of sustainable cold-chain solutions in developing markets at scale with fit-for-market business models and clean technologies.
How do you create the local and global “field to fork” connectivity to nutritiously feed 10 billion people in 2050, whilst economically empowering hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers whose livelihoods and well-being are often dependent on only 1-2 hectares of land or less, as well as ensure they are climate-change adaptation ready and resilient.… sustainably?
1. Training and capacity building
- Training for farmers and co-operatives
- Training for community mobilisers
- Training for cold-chain engineers
- Training for policymakers and financial institutes
- Development of the SPOKEs network and CoE programme in India
- Cold-chains through the GESI lens
- Undergraduate and postgraduate degrees
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2. Finance and Business Models
- Financeable Business Models and deployment approaches
- Inclusive Financing Mechanisms, including blended finance solutions
- Return on Investment Model (social benefits) to underpin Governments’ investments
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3. System Design and Modelling
- Peer-reviewed data collection tools
- Horizon scanning
- Virtual modelling
- Telemetrics and data collection
- Next-generation’ vaccine cold-chain infrastructure and systems
- Energy Transition and Access (including electrification of transport strategies)
- Agrifood system testing from soil to fork (SMART FARM plus Cold-chain campus)
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4. Technology - research, testing, demonstration & innovation
- Climate resilience
- Build and demonstrate off-grid Community Cooling Hubs
- Testing new technologies
- On-farm pre-cooling
- Off-grid, low GWP, efficient solutions through the cold-chain
- Off-grid vaccine cold--chain incl. ultra-cold
- Development of protocols for testing food safety and vaccine efficacy and energy efficiency
- Support to existing technologies including transition to efficient, low GWP alternatives
- Demonstrating new technologies (including through the SPOKEs and Try Before You Buy (TBYB)
- In-country assembly (Phase 2) to complement training activities and build capacity, improving accessibility and availability of alternative technologies.
- Lifecycle management
- Demonstration and sales channels for innovators
5. Future-proofed sustainable vaccine cold-chains
In addition to integration across the above pillars, specific work for Vaccines includes:
- Mitigate need for cold-chain (vehicles and Point of Care storage) by combining Point of Care Lateral Flow Test with Aerial Unmanned Vehicle (UAV i.e Drone) delivery (including for refugee camps)
- Develop vaccine cold-chain network analysis tools for efficiency re-design needed for the challenges of mRNA vaccines and climate change,
- Use digital twins for stress testing threats and solutions
6. Enabling policies and thought leadership
- Promotion and adoption of a holistic, systems-based approach
- Risk radar and cold-chain security index
- Public, private community partnership financing
- Cooling as critical infrastructure
- Expansion of the Global Vision through a reference approach
- New strategies for energy savings and energy efficiency e.g. increasing set point for frozen food by three degrees
- GESI - The programme is underpinned by a cross-cutting Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) workstream to include a comprehensive framework, tools, training, monitoring and evaluation.
