{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Healthy Spaces","title":"Decarbonizing the Cold Chain: Waste Less, Recover More","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1799,"description":"How do we decarbonize the chain that keeps the world's food fresh? \n  \nFresh food can travel for days or weeks, moving through farms, warehouses, ships, trucks, supermarkets and finally our homes. Much of it has to stay at the right temperature the whole way to stay safe to eat. That network of refrigerated storage and transport is the cold chain. It runs almost entirely on diesel, and demand for it keeps growing. \n  \nDr Liz Goodwin, Director of Food Loss and Waste at the World Resources Institute, sets the scale of the problem. Up to 40% of the food the world produces is lost or wasted. She explains why adding more refrigeration can't fix that on its own: a cold chain only works where there are formal markets, real demand and the skills to run it. Her point frames the rest of the episode. Better refrigeration matters, but only as part of a wider system. \n  \nThen Claudio Zanframundo, President of Thermo King EMEA & APAC, takes us inside the technology that keeps the cold chain moving. He explains why maintaining temperature across a long, multi-stage journey is so difficult, and how digital tracking and AI now help operators protect the load and run more efficiently. He describes how energy recovery captures power a moving trailer would otherwise lose and uses it to run the refrigeration. He looks at what EU decarbonization targets ask of the industry, and whether today's technology can meet them. And he closes on what it takes beyond the equipment to keep a cold chain running: service, infrastructure and skilled people. \n  \nTogether, Liz and Claudio make the case that the biggest gains are in what the system already holds: the food it loses and the energy it wastes. Recovering those, with the right regulation and the people to run the network, is how the cold chain grows and gets cleaner at the same time. \n  \n>>> Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3dsfSnD2Q-g \n  \nEPISODE CHAPTERS \n00:00 Introduction - The hidden chapter from farm to table \n01:07 How...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/EWG6ZnM49FIe0Yy22Amb1KSChry1WZmpnrrC9-UXzGI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE2Mzc1LzE2ODYw/MzY2MDctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}