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Now is the time for companies to innovate in the technologies that will put them at the forefront of the renewable hydrogen revolution
Supporting new offshore innovations that allow renewable electricity to create clean, renewable hydrogen will allow energy needs to be met and net zero targets reached, writes Benj Sykes of energy giants Ørsted
Climate change is a defining challenge of our time and it’s already having a clear impact on the ecosystems in our seas and oceans – the world clearly needs to reduce global carbon emissions by 50% towards 2030 to stay within a 1.5ºC increase in global warming.
How to produce offshore energy without harming the oceans Offshore wind capacity will need to be increased across the world to meet international climate commitments, but with as little harm as possible to wildlife. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Turbines of a wind farm lay in the wake of a maintenance boat in the mouth of the River Mersey. “No landscape on Earth is safe” if the fight against climate change “trumps all other environmental concerns,” wrote the US novelist Jonathan Franzen in 2015. Perhaps nowhere is the pressure between climate action and protecting nature so great as in the world’s oceans, where commercial and military activities add further sources of tension. Experts believe the oceans can supply around 10 per cent of the world’s electricity by 2050 without destroying “the largest habitat on Earth”, but environmentalists and clean energy advocates admit trade-offs are likely to be needed.
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