Green Hydrogen: The Common Thread Of The Belt And Road Initiative

Abstract

This paper responds to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), showing how global warming may be kept below 1.5°C by a trend of global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 and be halved by 2030 on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This paper states that conglomerations of cities need to be prioritized for decarbonization as an integral vector among all other environmental parameters and emission resources in the form of net-zero carbon. In this quest, the BRI bears a great responsibility and opportunity at the same time because all major cities and urban areas are on or near the course of the BRI, and they must be interconnected and incorporated mainly from energy and exergy points of view. The main motive is that almost a quarter of global Gross Domestic Product is produced in the BRI countries. The paper presents a novel hydrogen link designed from East Asia to Europe, connecting BRI countries on a single green hydrogen line transporting, storıng, and interchanging both heat and power to strongly support the BRI towards the Paris Agreement goals for 2050.