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Energy, Germany: axis with Brazil for green hydrogen and the Amazon

Berlin has increasingly clear ideas on the ecological transition and wants to become the world leader in green hydrogen, investing 9 billion: of these, 2 billion will be allocated to foreign projects, many of which in South America, where it already finances the fight against deforestation

Energy, Germany: axis with Brazil for green hydrogen and the Amazon

Country you go, Pnrr you find. On the energy transition every European country is going in no particular order, but is taking an increasingly precise direction Germany, which in the coming years will implement investments and fiscal measures worth hundreds of billions of euros for the green transition, including various international initiatives through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the main German development agency in the field of international cooperation . Berlin's objective is not only to reduce CO2 emissions as established by international agreements and to free itself from dependence on Russian gas, but it also has an even more ambitious one: to become the world leader in green hydrogen.

Green Germany: the expansion of clean hydrogen to Brazil

THEgreen hydrogen, among the various types of hydrogen distinguished by conventional coloring, is the cleanest of all: it is obtained from the electrolysis of water, using only renewable, wind or solar energy in the process. Only in this segment, the Germany is investing 9 billion euros but it cannot do it alone: ​​to reach 80% green energy by 2030, it will have to import two thirds of it from outside. And so a large part of this investment through GIZ (2 billion out of 9 in total) will be diverted to projects foreign countries, starting from South America and in particular from Brazil. As early as 2023, the Germans are financing pilot projects in the federal universities of Santa Catarina and Rio de Janeiro, as well as in the federal university of Itajubà, in Minas Gerais, but projects are also being created in Goiàs and in the technological park of Itaipu, demonstrating of an increasingly close partnership, both at an investment and technical-scientific level, between the country governed by Olaf Scholz and the one presided over by Lula, leaders of the same political family and also united by their commitment to the protection of the Amazon.

Germany's commitment to protecting the Amazon

Berlin, in fact, is among the founders and major contributors of Amazon fund, a funding program for stop deforestation of the lung of the planet created in 2008, then suspended under the government of Jair Bolsonaro because the resources were not used adequately and restored last year precisely by virtue of Lula's return to the presidency. In 2023, Germany paid the equivalent of 200 million euro, confirming itself as the second largest contributor to the cause after the other founding country, Norway, which has donated well over a billion euros over the years. The two countries have opened a path: in recent months, in fact, the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union have also promised aid or have already sent it.

And it's not just Brazil: Brazil is also receiving funds from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit for green hydrogen development projects. Colombia and the South Africa, proof of a large and diversified international network. The German government wants to have an electrolysis capacity of 5.000 megawatts (MW) by 2030 and 10.000 MW by 2040, to produce the new green fuel and become the leading supplier in the world. The objective is to get rid of the "grey" hydrogen, the one extracted from the gas and therefore less clean, by focusing ongreen hydrogen together withwind power e solar to replace fossil and nuclear energy and apply it especially in the heating and transport sectors. To do this, it is investing heavily all over the world.

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