Under the European Climate Act, the EU has committed to the goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, with renewable hydrogen playing a key role in achieving this goal.     The gas and fossil fuel industry has been heavily involved in shaping European energy, industry and climate policies, pushing hydrogen as the 'new solution' for decarbonising Europe. A powerful, strong and structured lobby, it is in pole position to access European Recovery Plan and European Green Deal funding to modify existing pipelines and equip them to transport hydrogen. But what is behind the hydrogen chimera?  Is the green hydrogen supply chain sustainable?    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTMiOe4rBA4&t=2s In the first of this webinar series, we will present the technical limits of this 'new solution', with an overview of the public funding sources that will flow directly to fossil companies to feed the hydrogen bubble. We will try to show how hydrogen is currently only an alibi for maintaining a society that revolves around the use of methane.  Speakers:  Prof. Leonardo Setti, Universita di Bologna: Why large-scale green hydrogen is not sustainable  Filippo Taglieri, Researcher and energy and infrastructure campaigner, ReCommon: Green hydrogen in the Italian Resilience and Recovery plan  Bruna Cañada, Researcher, Observatori del Deute en la Globalització (ODG): Green hydrogen in the Spanish Recovery, Transformation and Resilience plan     Moderator: Eva Pastorelli, CEE Bankwatch Network  This webinar is organized in collaboration with Observatori del Deute en la Globalització within the “Citizens’ Observatory for Green Deal Financing” project, financed by European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), and it’s the first in a series that will continue over the coming months.  Participation is free of charge. Please register here to participate.  Italian, English and Spanish simultaneous translation will be provided. 

Together with the Network "Gas No es Solución" (Gas is no Solution), of which we are members, we are organizing an international conference about H2Med with institutional representatives and local activists. Agenda: 10h-10:15h Registration 10:15h-10:30h Welcome 10:30h-12h Round table 1: What do the institutions think about H2Med? 12:00-12:30h Break 12:30-14h Round table 2: Impacts of H2Med on the different territories through which it passes 14h-15:30h Lunch 16h-18h Strategic day: what are we doing as a movement in the face of this mega-infrastructure? Sign up  

In this second webinar of the series about hydrogen, we will look at the hydrogen routes running through the Mediterranean area, discovering why these projects are not green at all, as they exemplify a model that perpetuates the promotion of mega-infrastructures built through public-private partnerships that lead to serious environmental and social impacts, even outside European borders.  Speakers:  Elena Gerebizza, Researcher and energy and infrastructure campaigner, ReCommon: The SoutH2 Corridor. Will it be built and with what implications?  Rita Prates, Project officer, Zero: H2Med: the impacts of the Celza project in Portugal  Josep Nualart Corpas, Researcher on energy and climate at Observatori del Deute en la Globalització (ODG): A priority country for hydrogen exports to Europe: what consequences for Chile?  Moderator: Eva Pastorelli, CEE Bankwatch Network  Italian, English and Spanish simultaneous translation will be provided.    sIgn up This webinar is organized by ReCommon and Observatori del Deute en la Globalització within the “Citizens’ Observatory for Green Deal Financing” project, financed by European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), and it’s the second of a series that will continue over the coming months.    Watch the video about the Melita Pipeline produced by Recommon: