Driving the hydrogen economy: the three factors needed for energy transition

摘要

The quest for vessel operations to be more energy efficient officially began in April 2018, when IMO announced its strategy to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ships. This strategy set out ambitious goals of reducing CO_2 emissions by 70% by 2050, with the target of phasing out GHG emissions from international shipping as soon as possible, during this century. While several drivers are pushing forward the need for this energy transition, the most prevalent is climate change; natural disasters such as the catastrophic bushfires in Australia in 2020 burned through 10M hectares of land following the country's hottest and driest year on record.