EU is right to prioritise hydrogen for transport which has no alternatives to decarbonise

Planes and long-distance ships – not cars – should be lead markets for the development of hydrogen fuel in the EU, the European Commission has said. Its hydrogen strategy, launched today, rightly commits to scaling up clean, renewables-based hydrogen for sectors which have no alternatives to decarbonise, green group Transport & Environment (T&E) said. But support for fossil-gas based hydrogen offers a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry and should be dropped.