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Sustainable food cold chain key to fighting waste and climate change

Millions of vaccine doses a year and nearly a third of all food produced is lost or wasted, according to new estimates.

Farmers sell their fresh-picked vegetables at community market
Farmers sell their fresh-picked vegetables at community market (AN/R. Powers)

In a rapidly warming world the need to keep some things cold is growing more difficult and increasingly urgent.

Public health officials estimate that millions of vaccine doses are wasted each year, largely because in many parts of the world there is no way to keep them cold.

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