UNFCCC: Hydrogen Cars Show Potential of Zero Carbon Transport

Hydrogen-fueled cars have been on display at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn (to 26 May), as part of a demonstration to show that clean transport technologies are available today and, if scaled up in a timely way, can play a major role in helping governments achieve their goals set under the Paris Climate Change Agreement.

During the conference, governments are looking at economic sectors with the highest potential to curb emissions, and transport is one focus area. Salaheddine Mezouar, Morocco’s Foreign Minister and incoming President of the UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech (COP22) along with the UN’s top climate change official Christiana Figueres test-drove hydrogen cars provided by the Clean Energy Partnership, an international consortium of 20 companies working together to jointly scale up the technology, co-funded by the German government.

“I believe that electro-mobility is the only way to make the transport sector emissions free, so hydrogen-cars are a big contribution towards the objective of the UN to achieve climate neutrality,” said Claudia Fried, spokesperson for the Clean Energy Partnership.

“We are in a phase in which we can see the technology works and is ready to be applied. We need the gas industry, because they know how to produce hydrogen, we need the mineral oil industry because they have the fueling stations and we need the car manufacturers who know how to build the fuel cells.”

Further reading: http://newsroom.unfccc.int/unfccc-newsroom/hydrogen-powered-cars-demonstrate-potential-of-zero-carbon-transport-in-bonn/

Source: Press release UNFCCC, 18.05.2016Hydrogen-fueled cars have been on display at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn (to 26 May), as part of a demonstration to show that clean transport technologies are available today and, if scaled up in a timely way, can play a major role in helping governments achieve their goals set under the Paris Climate Change Agreement.

During the conference, governments are looking at economic sectors with the highest potential to curb emissions, and transport is one focus area. Salaheddine Mezouar, Morocco’s Foreign Minister and incoming President of the UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech (COP22) along with the UN’s top climate change official Christiana Figueres test-drove hydrogen cars provided by the Clean Energy Partnership, an international consortium of 20 companies working together to jointly scale up the technology, co-funded by the German government.

“I believe that electro-mobility is the only way to make the transport sector emissions free, so hydrogen-cars are a big contribution towards the objective of the UN to achieve climate neutrality,” said Claudia Fried, spokesperson for the Clean Energy Partnership.

“We are in a phase in which we can see the technology works and is ready to be applied. We need the gas industry, because they know how to produce hydrogen, we need the mineral oil industry because they have the fueling stations and we need the car manufacturers who know how to build the fuel cells.”

Further reading: http://newsroom.unfccc.int/unfccc-newsroom/hydrogen-powered-cars-demonstrate-potential-of-zero-carbon-transport-in-bonn/

Source: Press release UNFCCC, 18.05.2016