Green Hydrogen: Avoiding pitfalls to unlock its industrial potential in Canada
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This white paper summarizes outcomes from a McGill workshop on green hydrogen deployment in Canada, highlighting key challenges—such as unclear evidence, regulatory gaps, and uncertainty around its best uses in sectors like fertilizer, steel, shipping, and aviation—and calls for greater data transparency, a national strategy, and targeted policy support to realize its emissions reduction potential.
Workshop Summary: Exploring Hydrogen’s Role in Canada’s Net-Zero Future
As global interest in hydrogen grows, Canada sees it as key to decarbonization but faces challenges, particularly in supporting green hydrogen. To explore these issues, the Trottier Family Foundation (TFF) and TISED hosted a workshop at McGill University on April 11, 2024, bringing together experts from various sectors. Discussions covered economic, policy, and environmental challenges, the role of different hydrogen types, and strategies for large-scale adoption.
The workshop resulted in the following outcomes:
