At COP28, Nations Launch Declaration of Intent on Clear Hydrogen

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Declaration of Intent facilitates work towards mutual recognition of fresh hydrogen certification schemes

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Through the 28^th Convention of the Events to the U.N. Framework Conference on Local weather Change, greater than 30 international locations launched the COP28 Declaration of Intent on the Mutual Recognition of Certification Schemes for Renewable and Low-Carbon Hydrogen and Hydrogen Derivatives. Recognizing the important thing function of fresh hydrogen in international decarbonization and assembly international power wants, endorsers of the declaration search to work towards mutual recognition of hydrogen certification schemes to assist facilitate a world market.

The USA, which makes use of the time period “clear hydrogen” moderately than “low-carbon hydrogen” nationally, understands “low-carbon” on this doc and others as inclusive of hydrogen produced with renewable power, nuclear power, or carbon seize and storage, and due to this fact not inclusive of hydrogen produced with unabated fossil power, together with pure gasoline.

The USA together with many worldwide companions emphasizes the significance of strong scientific assessments of lifecycle local weather impacts of hydrogen, which a supplemental briefing doc underlines. It will likely be essential for future certification schemes and requirements to replicate the perfect accessible science on the lifecycle local weather impacts of hydrogen and its derivatives, together with oblique impacts on GHG concentrations attributable to leaks.

The USA appears ahead to ongoing engagement with worldwide companions to work towards the essential aim of enabling mutual recognition of certification schemes. The complete textual content of the declaration is included under.

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COP28 Declaration Of Intent On Mutual Recognition Of Certification Schemes For Renewable And Low-carbon Hydrogen And Hydrogen Derivatives

We, the Individuals,

Emphasizing the necessity for enhanced multilateral cooperation to deal with local weather change, speed up the worldwide power transition and safeguard worldwide power safety, whereas boosting sustainable financial development and inexperienced industrialization;

Acknowledging that renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives will play an important function in assembly international power wants and decarbonizing our industries as a part of a people-centred power transition to web zero that leaves no-one behind;

Intending to unlock decarbonization alternatives and cost-efficiency beneficial properties with international commerce in renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives;

Additional highlighting their complementary strengths and pursuits with respect to renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives’ manufacturing, imports and exports, and worldwide hydrogen market improvement;

Contemplating the function of certification in enabling transparency in addition to in constructing client belief;

Contemplating that the G7 Presidency of Japan and the G7 Local weather, Vitality and Atmosphere Ministers’ Communiqué of 16 April 2023 affirmed the significance of growing worldwide requirements and certification for renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives, and emphasised the necessity for pursuing mutual recognition primarily based on a mechanism for evidencing carbon depth, observing the ideas of tradability, transparency, trustworthiness and sustainability;

Contemplating that the G20 Presidency of India put ahead the G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration of 9-10 September 2023 which emphasised the necessity for “mutually acknowledged and inter-operable certification schemes” for renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives “to construct a sustainable and equitable international hydrogen ecosystem that advantages all nations” and G20 high-level voluntary ideas on hydrogen”;

Noting the launch on the twenty eighth UN Local weather Change Convention (COP28) of the Draft Technical Specification for the methodology for figuring out the greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions related to the manufacturing and transport of hydrogen (ISO/DTS 19870) by the Worldwide Organisation for Standardisation’s Technical Committee on hydrogen applied sciences Sub-Committee 1 (ISO/TC197 SC1), and its relevance for the understanding and comparability of various methodologies adopted on the nationwide stage;

Acknowledging that the COP28 Presidential motion agenda identifies certification of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives as a key precedence for multilateral cooperation to unlock cross-border commerce;

Noting the Hydrogen Breakthrough Agenda and the H1 precedence focus space on hydrogen requirements and certification coordinated by the Worldwide Partnership for Hydrogen and Gasoline Cells within the Financial system (IPHE) and the Hydrogen Expertise Collaboration Programme (Hydrogen TCP), and that mutual recognition of certification schemes was highlighted as a key motion merchandise in Hydrogen Certification 101 paper printed below this initiative;

Recognizing that international locations world wide, together with a few of the Individuals, are implementing their nationwide or regional certification schemes for renewable and/or low-carbon hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives to assist their respective hydrogen methods and roadmaps, in addition to the related enabling frameworks;

Contemplating that convergence in direction of a minimal set of basic design ideas for certification schemes can tackle the dangers of potential market fragmentation delaying the event of a world marketplace for renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives;

Contemplating the function of certification in rising investor confidence in hydrogen as a brand new asset class;

Affirming the significance of a mutual recognition of certification schemes primarily based on key ideas that acknowledges various coverage decisions on the subject of methods, roadmaps, insurance policies and laws for renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives adopted by the Individuals;

In recognition of the issues listed above, declare their intention as follows:

1. In an effort to pave the way in which for improvement of a world market renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives, the Individuals search to work in direction of mutual recognition of their respective certification schemes;
2. The Individuals search accelerated improvement of technical options to allow mutual recognition of their certification schemes, together with via cooperation of the Individuals with and below the framework of the Worldwide Partnership for Hydrogen and Gasoline Cells within the Financial system (IPHE) and the Hydrogen Expertise Cooperation Programme (Hydrogen TCP);
3. The Individuals search to, the place attainable, nominate authorities specialists to IPHE and Hydrogen TCP to facilitate the event of related options for mutual recognition of their certification schemes for renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives;
4. The Individuals could think about additional steps to assist the method of mutual recognition of certification schemes, together with by considering the adoption of or consistency with globally recognised requirements, such because the ISO methodology for figuring out the GHG emissions related to the manufacturing and transport of hydrogen;
5. The Individuals intend to observe progress on cooperation in direction of mutual recognition of certification schemes on an annual foundation.

Individuals: Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia, Belgium, Brunei, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Egypt, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mauritania, Moldova, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Ukraine, United States of America¹, Yemen

¹ Based mostly on language in its nationwide laws, america makes use of the time period “clear hydrogen” moderately than “low-carbon hydrogen,” and understands “low-carbon” on this doc and others as inclusive of hydrogen produced with renewable power, nuclear power, or carbon seize and sequestration, however not inclusive of hydrogen produced with unabated fossil power together with pure gasoline.