International trade and green hydrogen | IRENA

International trade  and green hydrogen  | IRENA

Green hydrogen could play a key role in achieving the goals of the 
Paris Agreement by mid-century, 
i.e., to pursue efforts to limit the increase in the global average 
temperature to 1.5°C, and to well below 2°C, above pre-industrial 
levels.

Hydrogen production is currently a major net contributor 
to climate change, rather than to decarbonization, because current 
methods of producing hydrogen are carbon-intensive. Thus, to arrive 
at a net-zero world, the landscape of hydrogen production and 
consumption will need to change dramatically. 

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