By Degrees aims to promote, explore and stimulate debate around the role of cooling as critical infrastructure, ensuring societal well-being, economic stability, and public health; adapting and mitigating the impacts of extreme heat to climate change.
Living in a +50°C World - The System Roadmap
3rd December 2024
Clean cooling and cold-chain solutions are not being implemented at the required scale on-the-ground in the Global South. What can practically be done to address them?
Community cooling for community services
3rd December 2024
We intend to build a first of a kind test and demonstration Community Cooling Hub (CCH) unit at the ACES campus, Kigali.
The rise of electric vehicles and implications for the cold chain
18th November 2024
Transport accounts for around a third of global carbon dioxide emissions, with about 3/4 of transport emissions come from road transport.
Keeping cool in the future demands new questions now
30th October 2024
Cooling is critical infrastructure essential for food, health, safe places to live and work, and the production and storage of data that defines our modern world.
Improving the resilience of refugee camps to rising temperatures
29th October 2024
Ahead of COP29 and the discussions on adaptation, IMechE Fellow Dr Tim Fox outlines solutions to the challenges of adapting refugee camps for improved resilience to extreme heat.
Caught in an unsustainable evaluation trap?
16th October 2024
Very few sustainable evaluation methods are designed to produce meaningful evidence of the sustainable consequences of a proposed intervention.
Self-organising virtual models to build cold-chain solutions
9th October 2024
Climate change introduces unprecedented uncertainty and ever-greater threats to the resilience of the global food supply chains, particularly in the global South.
Unlocking the Potential of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Cold-Chains
19th September 2024
GESI is not just a moral imperative; it is crucial for driving innovation, increasing efficiency, and building resilience in the cold-chain space.
