Hydrogen for a cleaner future

The need to address climate change has never been more urgent. Across the world there's growing momentum around commitments to achieve 'net zero' emissions and limit global warming to 1.5°C.

Countries accounting for more than 50% of global GDP are actively discussing or have already legislated zero emission targets for 2050 at the latest.

The shift required is significant: from a global economy largely driven by fossil fuels, with their accompanying levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, to one of carbon neutrality.

An important piece of the puzzle to reaching net zero commitments is hydrogen, if that hydrogen is produced via a low carbon route.

There's growing consensus that hydrogen will be an important energy carrier in the new energy ecosystem. However, current estimates show that production will need to increase ten fold by 2050 if it's to fulfil its potential as a clean transportation fuel, as a cleaner industry feedstock, and for domestic heat and power.

JM are well placed to play a role in the transition to clean, reliable energy. We have many years of experience in the technologies used today to make hydrogen and we have been working hard on routes to reduce emissions from these processes.

Our science and technology is applied at multiple critical points across the hydrogen value chain:

• An established portfolio of leading technologies for the production of hydrogen at world scale and new technology to decarbonise the hydrogen production process.
• Scientific and electrochemical know-how to support the transition to green hydrogen solutions.
• Catalysts to convert hydrogen into transportable fuels, where we are world leaders in methanol synthesis and ammonia catalysts and technology.
• We have world leading manufacturing facilities for the production of the key catalyst component of hydrogen fuel cells, which have water as the only by product.