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Description
Climate technology is a key component of mitigating greenhouse gas and adapting to climate change, and its effects can be expanded to global scale. Thus, it is crucial for countries to cooperate on developing and deploying prominent climate technology to combating to climate change. Hydrogen sector is considered as one of the most important sectors for just energy transition in the future. However, hydrogen technology still needs to be developed and demonstrated to contexts of various environments in the world. International R&D cooperation is essential to improve hydrogen technology and industry and to deploy this technology for attaining sustainable development. We tentatively determined priority on cooperation by comparative analysis on national strategy of each country. Hydrogen production with fossil fuel is expected to be dominant in the short-term (2030) while most countries have a strategy of producing hydrogen with renewable energy in the long-term (2050). In terms of sector on hydrogen utilization, Canada, United Kingdom, and Unites States have the broadest interest. The Republic of Korea is interested in transport, power, and building. Canada and Japan are of interest for hydrogen R&D cooperation because these countries comprise similar interest in terms of hydrogen utilization sector. An analysis on international publication and patent by R&D showed that China, Japan, United States, Korea, Germany, France, and Russia are most active countries despite some variation in the ranking upon value chain (production, storage and transport, or utilization). Technological and engineering specifications of companies in the countries were investigated and then comparatively analyzed. With consideration of the above investigation and analysis on relevant national strategies and technologies, we suggested the methodology of international R&D projects, focusing on hydrogen production, transport and storage, with some countries. This approach can contribute to developing an international R&D project on new climate technology sector.
References
- Korean Governments, "Hydrogen Supply Carbon Neutral Technology Innovation Strategy Roadmap", 2022
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| Keywords | Hydrogen, International cooperation, Technology analysis, R&D planning |
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