The Guiding Principles for Climate-aligned Hydrogen Deployment will assist stakeholders in managing complex issues of path dependency, emissions accounting, and health and socioeconomic equity.
The United Nations High-Level Champions for Climate Action, Gonzalo Munoz and Nigel Topping, and the global partners of the UN Marrakech Partnership on Thursday published the result of months-long collaboration to strengthen and ground .
The energy transition must be backed by a strong and holistic approach to policy-making by governments.
The key to this lies in more specific nationally determined contributions - and the year of COP26 is the year to do it.
The very first automobiles, introduced in the 1880s, were expensive, niche, and used only by the rich. Within 30 years, Ford’s Model T entered mass production. This pushed the number of car-owning households in the US from 8% in 1918 to 60% by 1928, and triggered the spread of electrification, suburbs, cinemas, shopping centres, sophisticated advertising and much more.
That’s not linear growth – it’s exponential. We’ve seen it happen time and again throughout history, whether from horses to cars or valves to transistors, and each time it has fundamentally changed the way we live and operate. Our race to a zero-carbon energy system will be no different.