日本和阿联酋将展开氢技术与供应链合作

据路透社4月8日东京报道，日本工业部周四表示，日本和阿拉伯联合酋长国同意在氢生产技术上展开合作，并建立一个国际供应链。

这项合作以石油生产国阿联酋与能源进口国日本之间的合作备忘录为标志，反映出对投资氢能源的热情日益高涨，这为帮助应对气候变化提供了潜力。

去年12月，日本政府设定了一个目标，到2030年将其氢需求从现在的约200万吨/年提高到300万吨/年，到2050年提高到2000万吨，这是到2050年实现碳净零排放的绿色增长战略的一部分。

周四达成协议的目的是，日本能够进口阿联酋生产的氢，这种氢可能由化石燃料生产，但其碳排放会被捕集并用于工业。

两国还将合作促进阿联酋的氢需求。

氢主要从天然气或煤炭生产中提取，长期以来一直用于从火箭燃料到制造肥料的各种应用中。

但随着各国政府寻求解决气候变化问题，其目标是转向使用可再生能源生产的无排放绿色氢，并扩大其用途，包括在工业过程中取代化石燃料能源，并将其用作交通燃料。但在成本和基础设施方面仍存在许多障碍。

裘寅 编译自 路透社

原文如下：

Japan, UAE to collaborate on hydrogen technology, supply chain

Japan and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday agreed to work together on technology to produce hydrogen and create an international supply chain, Japan’s industry ministry said.

The collaboration, marked by a memorandum of cooperation between the oil-producing UAE and energy-importer Japan, reflects mounting enthusiasm for investment in hydrogen, which offers potential to help fight climate change.

Japan’s government set a goal in December to boost its annual hydrogen demand to 3 million tonnes by 2030, from about 2 million tonnes now, and to 20 million tonnes by 2050, as part of a green growth strategy to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

The aim of Thursday’s agreement is that Japan should be able to import hydrogen produced in the UAE, which may be produced from fossil fuel but whose emissions are captured and used in industry.

The two countries will also cooperate to boost hydrogen demand in the UAE.

Hydrogen, mostly extracted from natural gas or coal production, has long been used in applications ranging from rocket fuel to making fertilisers.

But as goverments seek to address climate change, the goal is to shift to emissions-free green hydrogen produced using renewable power and to broaden its use to include replacing fossil fuel energy in industrial processes and using it as transport fuel. But there are still many hurdles involving cost and infrastructure.