technologies such as battery electric and hydrogen-based systems, assessing their potential impact on sustainability within the …

The European Commission has identified hydrogen as a key part of its decarbonisation strategy. The 2022 REPowerEU … Strategy set a target of 20MT consumption of renewable hydrogen by 2030. The Commission is keen to promote a single European … market in hydrogen, similar to the current one for natural gas. To this end it has published proposals on the regulation of …

trade from their emissions. At the same time, policymakers hope that hydrogen will promote Europe’s energy independence …The transition to a hydrogen-based economy is gaining momentum in both Germany and the European Union (EU). Used as an … energy carrier, hydrogen holds the promise of freeing hard-to-decarbonise sectors like heavy industry, aviation, and maritime …

.6 percent emissions reduction per plant. …

emerged on the policy agenda. We calculate a new index of air quality using CO2 and SO2 emissions per capita as indicators and … top 5 countries in terms of air quality performance. The Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Togo, and Nepal …

myopic or not able to commit themselves to sustainable policies or costs of reducing emissions are too high, strategic … future treaty. Although no player will rationally reduce emissions on its own, investments in R&D by at least one player can … change the strategic situation of negotiations to control emissions: Emission abatement costs will decrease so that a treaty …