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    • Avoiding a Plastic Pandemic: The Future of Sustainability in a Post COVID-19 World 

      De Blasio, Nicola; Fallon, Phoebe (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2021-01)
      The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is upending our lives and the global economy in ways unimaginable until recently. While the overall impacts are still difficult to quantify, ramifications are sure to be felt for decades to ...
    • China: The Renewable Hydrogen Superpower? 

      De Blasio, Nicola; Pflugmann, Fridolin (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2021-05)
      President Xi Jinping’s pledge during the 2020 United Nations General Assembly, that China would reach peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, is a significant step in the fight ...
    • Deploying Energy Innovation at Scale for a Low-Carbon Economy: The Private Sector Role - ENGIE 

      De Blasio, Nicola; Krishnamoorthy, Shankar; Kapadia, Zul; Mayer, Abigail; Schiele, Johanna; Sweeney-Taylor, Anthony (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020-09)
      Providing secure, reliable, affordable energy that is needed to fuel prosperity for all without causing devastating environmental consequences is perhaps the greatest challenge of the 21st century. Over the coming decades, ...
    • The European Union at a Crossroads: Unlocking Renewable Hydrogen’s Potential 

      De Blasio, Nicola; Nunez-Jimenez, Alejandro (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2021-11)
      European countries are at a crossroads on their path to carbon neutrality. Today, they are at the forefront of the global clean hydrogen race but going forward they would be better served by collaborating instead of working ...
    • The Future of Energy Value Chains in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy: An Evaluation Framework of Integration and Segmentation Scenarios 

      De Blasio, Nicola; Zheng, Derek (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2023-08-14)
      The transition from energy systems dominated by fossil fuels1 to ones based on renewable electricity and “green” molecules will significantly impact existing value chains2 and forge new pathways, interactions, and ...
    • The Future of Green Hydrogen Value Chains: Geopolitical and Market Implications in the Industrial Sector 

      Eicke, Laima; De Blasio, Nicola (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2022-10)
      The global transition to a low-carbon economy will significantly impact existing energy value chains and transform the production to consumption lifecycle, dramatically altering interactions among stakeholders. Thanks to ...
    • The Future of Renewable Hydrogen in the European Union: Market and Geopolitical Implications 

      Nunez-Jimenez, Alejandro; De Blasio, Nicola (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2022-03)
      As countries around the world pledge to remove nearly all carbon emissions from their economies within the next forty years, the spotlight has moved to the deep decarbonization of all energy sectors. This aggressive push ...
    • Geopolitical and Market Implications of Renewable Hydrogen: New Dependencies in a Low-Carbon Energy World 

      De Blasio, Nicola; Pflugmann, Fridolin (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020-03)
      To accelerate the global transition to a low-carbon economy, all energy systems and sectors must be actively decarbonized. While hydrogen has been a staple in the energy and chemical industries for decades, renewable ...
    • The Geopolitics of Renewable Hydrogen 

      De Blasio, Nicola; Pflugmann, Fridolin (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2021-05)
      The transition to a low-carbon energy system will likely shake up the geopolitical status quo that has governed global energy systems for over a century. Policymakers need to rethink the role their country could play in a ...
    • Green Hydrogen Industrial Value Chains: Geopolitical and Market Implications 

      De Blasio, Nicola; Eicke, Laima (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2023-02)
      The global transition to a low-carbon economy and adopting the needed clean energy technologies at scale will significantly impact existing value chains and transform production-to-consumption lifecycles. Regulatory and ...
    • Hydrogen Deployment at Scale: The Infrastructure Challenge 

      De Blasio, Nicola; Pflugmann, Fridolin; Lee, Henry (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2021-08)
      Clean hydrogen is experiencing unprecedented momentum as confidence in its ability to accelerate decarbonization efforts across multiple sectors is rising. New projects are announced almost every week. For example, an ...
    • Is China's Hydrogen Economy Coming? 

      De Blasio, Nicola; Pflugmann, Fridolin (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020-07-28)
      To accelerate the global transition to a low-carbon economy, all energy systems and sectors must be actively decarbonized. While hydrogen has been a staple in the energy and chemical industries for decades, renewable ...
    • MIGHTY: Model of International Green Hydrogen Trade 

      Nunez-Jimenez, Alejandro; De Blasio, Nicola (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2022-08)
      The Model of International Green Hydrogen Trade (MIGHTY) is an optimization model to investigate renewable hydrogen production, consumption, and trade between countries. MIGHTY supports strategic analysis by policymakers ...
    • Mission Hydrogen: Accelerating the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy 

      De Blasio, Nicola; Pflugmann, Fridolin; Lee, Henry; Hua, Charles; Nunez-Jimenez, Alejandro; Fallon, Phoebe (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2021-10)
      To accelerate the global transition to a low-carbon economy, all energy systems must be actively decarbonized. While hydrogen has been a staple in the energy and chemical industries for decades, clean hydrogen – defined ...
    • The Role of Blockchain in Green Hydrogen Value Chains 

      De Blasio, Nicola; Hua, Charles (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2021-11)
      A rainbow of colors currently dominates almost every conversation on the transition to a low-carbon economy: green, grey, blue, turquoise, pink, yellow[1] - an ever-increasing palette to describe the same colorless, odorless, ...
    • Sustainable Mobility: Renewable Hydrogen in the Transport Sector 

      De Blasio, Nicola; Hua, Charles; Nunez-Jimenez, Alejandro (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2021-06)
      The transportation sector is the second-largest source of CO2 emissions, after electricity and heat generation, accounting for about 25 percent of global emissions.1 However, it is also one of the most challenging to ...
    • Technological Innovation and the Future of Energy Value Chains 

      De Blasio, Nicola; Zheng, Derek (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2022-04)
      The transition from energy systems dominated by fossil fuels1 to ones based on renewable electricity and carbon-free molecules will significantly impact existing value chains2 and forge new pathways and transformation steps ...