Source: The article was published on the UNIDO IAP website: Strategies for hydrogen transport infrastructure | Industrial Analytics Platform
Our UNIDO team concluded a mission to South Africa, marking the launch of the two-year Green Climate Fund Readiness Programme. During the mission, the team engaged with key stakeholders to support South Africa in strengthening its institutional capacity for coordinating green hydrogen initiatives outlined in the Hydrogen Society Roadmap.
Key Programme Partners:
At the World Hydrogen Summit in Rotterdam, UNIDO signed a Joint Declaration with IPHE (International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Economy). This declaration reaffirms the two organizations' commitment to collaborate to enhance hydrogen uptake, particularly in industry across developing and transitioning economies.
The collaboration focuses on several key areas:
✅ Awareness and Capacity Building: Boosting awareness and building skills in hydrogen use across industry, transport, and energy sectors.
Rabat: The official launch of our Green Climate Fund (GCF) Readiness Project marks a significant milestone in Morocco’s journey toward a sustainable, low-carbon future.
This UNIDO's initiative aims to accelerate Morocco’s transition to green hydrogen, with a particular focus on decarbonizing the steel industry—a critical sector in the country’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45.5% by 2030, as outlined in its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).
We are committed to empowering partner countries to leverage green hydrogen and ammonia for sustainable industrial development - including the fertiliser industry.
At the World Without Hunger Conference in Addis Ababa (November 5-7, 2024), our team hosted a side event on green ammonia and low-carbon fertilizers, highlighting the critical role of sustainable agriculture in ensuring food security across Africa.
Vienna: UNIDO hosted a webinar introducing a joint ISO-UNIDO Guide, designed to clarify the ISO’s Technical Specification for assessing greenhouse gas emissions across the hydrogen value chain, ensuring professionals & policymakers can effectively understand and apply it.
Speakers from partner organization provided their insights on the technical specification and highlighted the value of the Guide:
✅ Petra Schwager (UNIDO):
Brussels: During the European Hydrogen Week, UNIDO and Clean Hydrogen Mission of Mission Innovation signed a Joint Declaration to strengthen collaboration in advancing hydrogen technologies and solutions.
𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
✅ 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 & 𝑰𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 – Identifying and promoting cutting-edge hydrogen technologies.
✅ 𝑮𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 – Enhancing dialogues between hydrogen pioneer countries and developing countries.
✅ 𝑪𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 – Creating training materials and organising joint webinars.
Scaling up the production and deployment of low-emission hydrogen and its derivatives is essential to accelerate the global clean energy transition, limit temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and achieve SDG7’s goal of ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.
Cooperation with universities and the academic community is of paramount importance due to their expertise and research capacities; this collaboration plays an essential role in accelerating the energy and hydrogen transition. We are pleased to partner with Professor Ad van Wijk to present his excellent book: "Green Energy for All: How Hydrogen and Electricity Carry Our Future." We highly recommend this book, which is available as a free PDF for readers, because we believe in the power of knowledge sharing.
UNIDO hosted the fourth session of the Development Dialogue on its Global Partnership for Hydrogen in Industry at its headquarters in Vienna. The event, held in a hybrid format, brought together representatives from Member States, including their Permanent Missions, industries, and other key stakeholders to discuss hydrogen's role in sustainable development.