Hydrogen partnerships flourish at Cop27
The conference has already seen the signature of a green hydrogen shipping agreement and US support for a Ukrainian nuclear hydrogen project
A number of partnership agreements on hydrogen have been signed at the Cop27 conference in Egypt. Ten organisations—including industry associations Green Hydrogen Catapult, Getting to Zero Coalition, GH2 and the Aspen Institute’s Shipping Decarbonization Initiative, developers Acwa Power, Intercontinental Energy, CWP Global and Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), technology firm Man Energy Solutions and shipping firm Maersk—have today signed a joint statement on green hydrogen and green shipping at the conference. The signatories commit to full decarbonisation of the shipping sector by 2050, the deployment of commercially viable zero-emission vessels from 2030 and a target of 5.5mn t/yr green
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