The workshop will present information from a number of European projects and international initiatives to benchmark and reduce carbon emissions in supermarkets. The aim of the workshop is to share insights that will enable supermarkets to be able to compare performance and identify mechanisms to reduce energy and carbon emissions.

On the agenda

Chair: Judith Evans and Maria Kolokotroni

• International benchmarking of supermarkets

- Results from the Annex 44 project

- Results from the UK

Ulla Lindberg (Research Institutes of Sweden) and Alan Foster (LSBU)

• A European Ecolabel for food retail stores

SuperSmart /I. Colombo (IIR)

• Market and policy trends in the food retail/cold chain sector in the Asian region

SuperSmart/Jan Dusek (Schecco)

• The retail refrigeration road map – What technologies are available to reduce carbon emissions in supermarkets?

Judith Evans and Alan Foster (LSBU)

• A study of improving energy efficiency of small supermarkets by modelling interactions between building, HVAC, refrigeration and display product.

Maria Kolokotroni (Brunel University)

• Non-technological and expertise barriers to uptake of efficient supermarket technologies

SuperSmart/Mazyar Karampour (KTH)

• Discussion

Join this Workshop at the 5th IIR Conference on Sustainability and the Cold Chain (ICCC 2018) Beijing, China, 6-8 April 2018.

More on the conference at http://iccc2018.medmeeting.org/en