The frozen food industry sets an example for climate protection. Germany wants to become climate neutral by 2045. In order to achieve this political target, companies and citizens are called upon to intensify their efforts. The dti, as the branch association for the frozen food industry, therefore gave the go-ahead for the “Future workshop: frozen food industry on the way to climate neutrality” at its general meeting. With this initiative, the dti wants to contribute to making the industry fit for climate neutrality through close cooperation along the frozen food value chain and in exchange with science.
Acting together instead of just talking – that is the motto for more climate protection. For a future-proof, sustainable frozen food industry, real solutions are required instead of greenwashing. In the future workshop, the dti, together with its members and scientific partners, will develop methodical approaches for climate accounting, solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and requirements for a climate label in order to support companies on their way to climate neutrality.
“Our goal is to promote the development and application of uniform methods for climate accounting and, based on this, to formulate an industry climate balance and a climate target for the frozen food industry,” says dti Managing Director Dr. Sabine Eichner during the Future workshop.
The dti is thus consistently continuing its work and the pioneering role of the industry in the field of sustainability: the Öko-Institut Freiburg calculated frozen climate balances as early as 2012, which showed that frozen food is no more harmful to the climate than other types of food. In the area of food losses, the industry was recently the first to present data showing that the industry is already very resource-efficient and has very low losses throughout the chain.