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.
