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On July 8,2020, the European Commission unveiled plans to promote hydrogen based entirely
on renewable electricity like wind and solar, but said low-carbon hydrogen derived from fossil
fuels will also be supported in order to scale up production in the short term.

Hydrogen is enjoying a renewed and energy mix, and is still largely produced
rapidly growing attention around the from fossil fuels, notably from natural gas
world. Hydrogen can be used as a or from coal, resulting in the release of
feedstock, a fuel or an energy carrier 70 to 100 million tons CO 2 annually in the
and storage, and has many possible EU. For hydrogen to contribute to climate
applications across industry, transport, neutrality, it needs to achieve a far larger
power and buildings sectors. Most scale and its production must become fully
importantly, it does not emit CO 2 and decarbonized.
almost no air pollution when used. It In the past, hydrogen did not receive
thus offers a solution to decarbonize sufficient attention. Today, the rapid cost
industrial processes and economic sectors. decline of renewable energy, technological
Hydrogen is essential to support the EU’s developments and the urgency to
commitment to reach carbon neutrality drastically reduce greenhouse emissions,
by 2050 and for the global effort to are opening up new possibilities.
implement the Paris Agreement. Many indicators signal that we are now
Yet, today, hydrogen represents a close to a tipping point. There are many
modest fraction of the global and EU reasons why hydrogen is a key priority

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