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Climate justice

Book / July 27, 2022

Lasse Thiele

Hydrogen and climate justice

Instead of a “miracle weapon” more global injustice

Part of the project: Building blocks for climate justice

Hydrogen is not a silver bullet to combat the climate crisis. While there are sensible uses for "green" hydrogen, European industry's plans to rely on massive imports from the global South to secure its energy supply threaten to perpetuate centuries-long patterns of global injustice.

Before these imports become a reality, a lot of climate-damaging fossil hydrogen will have to be burned.

PDF available in English and German