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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Peter Hannam

Labor’s new ‘renewable hydrogen’ targets aim for Australia to produce 15m tonnes by 2050

Chris Bowen speaks from a lectern
The minister for climate change Chris Bowen at the APAC hydrogen summit in Brisbane. Bowen said the world has committed to ‘monumental investments in hydrogen’ as part of net zero by 2050. Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

The Albanese government has set annual targets of at least 15m tonnes of “renewable hydrogen” by 2050 and dismissed critics who had “gloated” about setbacks to the nascent industry.

The energy minister, Chris Bowen, said on Friday that Australia’s green hydrogen pipeline of projects was “alive and healthy” as he released the government’s new hydrogen production strategy, which updates the 2019 plan he inherited from the Coalition.

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