220608_Declaration on Sustainability Criteria for Green Hydrogen

220608_Declaration on Sustainability Criteria for Green Hydrogen Declaration on Sustainability Criteria for Green Hydrogen The German G7 Presidency has declared its ambitions to accelerate the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement. [...] To ensure that these make a real contribution to climate protection right from the start, we believe that ambitious, binding sustainability criteria for the production and trade of green hydrogen are indispensable. [...] As development, climate, and environmental organizations, we call on the German G7 Presidency to use the upcoming G7 Summit to establish a Task Force on Sustainable Trade in Green Hydrogen (for example, within the framework of OECD or IRENA) to enumerate, standardize, and advance the implementation of the following criteria: • Certification: In order to comply with common standards, a certificatio. [...] Renewable energy power plants used to produce hydrogen for export must be built in addition to facilities already included in the respective country’s binding target planning (according to the NDC or Integrated Resources Plans). [...] Such a systemic approach is the only way to ensure that the export of renewable hydrogen does not prolong the domestic energy supply’s use of fossil fuels, causing the exporting country to miss its own energy and climate policy targets.