India has announced the target of zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as per the Paris Agreement. To achieve this, India is looking at clean fuel transportation systems and has come up with an electric vehicle policy, while now in the process of preparing the “Roadmap for Carbon Friendly Green Hydrogen in National Hydrogen Mission”, as announced by the Prime Minister on the Independence Day.

The Transport Department, Government of Kerala, organised a virtual workshop on Green Hydrogen and India’s Zero Emission Plan in the Transport Sector on 4 September 2021. The Workshop was supported by the Integrated Sustainable Urban Transport Systems for Smart Cities (SMARTSUT) project, implemented by the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs and GIZ, and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) under the Green Urban Mobility Partnership (GUMP).

Highlights from the speakers:

• Dr. Nicole Glanemann, Deputy Head, BMWi shared Germany’s Green Hydrogen Strategy, focusing on the viability gap, and how the Govt. of Germany is supporting the rollout of a global Hydrogen economy.
• Green Hydrogen is currently enjoying unprecedented political support and we have to make the best of it. Being an early adopter of Hydrogen energy technology will benefit India in the long run, owing to hydrogen’s cross-sector sustainability.”- Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog.
• “Manufacturing technology for the storage and transportation of liquid hydrogen is found to be the biggest challenge. Transporting hydrogen as high-pressure gas could be the most popular mode in India in the future, and we need to ensure it is done safely.” - Mr. Tom Joseph.
• “In less than 10 years, it will be cheaper to run Fuel-Cell electric vehicles than Electric Vehicles or Internal Combustion Engines (ICE), in certain commercial applications.” - Mr. Oben Uluc, Ballard.
• “Green Hydrogen is currently enjoying unprecedented political support and we have to make the best of it.” - Shri Amitabh Kant speaking on National Hydrogen Mission.

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