‘Important that markets are aligned’ | US and Germany partner on offshore wind and H2 certification

June 2, 2022

The US and Germany at the sidelines of the G7 energy minister meeting in Berlin closed a climate and energy partnership aiming at a closer cooperation in offshore wind and hydrogen.

US special climate envoy John Kerry and German economics and climate minister Robert Habeck on Friday signed a joint declaration with the goal to accelerate action to reach net-zero, develop and deploy technologies to speed the energy transition, and promote ambitious climate policies and energy security in third countries.

“What Germany and the US have both shown is that, if you are an early mover country, if you are a country that invests now, moves into this transition, there are enormous benefits, economic, social and security benefits,” Kerry said, also promoting his First Movers Coalition initiative under which more than 50 major companies globally have committed to decarbonise heavy industry and long-distance transport.

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