The Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation: The Hydrogen Factor

Why watch it?

This two-minute IRENA video summarizes the agency's analysis Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation: The Hydrogen Factor. The analysis argues that rapid growth of a global hydrogen economy could bring geoeconomic and geopolitical shifts and new interdependencies, redraw the geography of energy trade, regionalize energy relations and create new centers of influence built on hydrogen production and use as oil and gas trade declines. Released in January 2022, it is a brief overview; the full report holds the detail.

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