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HYDROGEN & TRANSITION producing UAE and energy-importer Japan, The two countries will also cooperate to
reflects mounting enthusiasm for investment boost hydrogen demand in the UAE.
Japan, UAE to collaborate in hydrogen, which offers potential to help gas or coal production, has long been used
Hydrogen, mostly extracted from natural
fight climate change.
on hydrogen technology, to boost its annual hydrogen demand to 3mn in applications ranging from rocket fuel to
Japan’s government set a goal in December
making fertilisers.
supply chain tonnes by 2030, from about 2mn tonnes change, the goal is to shift to emissions-free
But as governments seek to address climate
now, and to 20mn tonnes by 2050, as part
Japan and the United Arab Emirates on of a green growth strategy to reach net zero green hydrogen produced using renewable
Thursday agreed to work together on carbon emissions by 2050. power and to broaden its use to include
technology to produce hydrogen and create The aim of Thursday’s agreement is that replacing fossil fuel energy in industrial
an international supply chain, Japan’s industry Japan should be able to import hydrogen processes and using it as transport fuel. But
ministry said. produced in the UAE, which may be produced there are still many hurdles involving cost and
The collaboration, marked by a from fossil fuel but whose emissions are infrastructure.
memorandum of cooperation between the oil- captured and used in industry. REUTERS

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