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Welcome to a new episode of EU Watchdog Radio.

My name is Hans Van Schare, media officer at Corporate Europe Observatory, also known as CEO. In this episode and the last one of the year, I will be talking to CEO researcher and campaigner Belen Balaunia,

who recently published a new investigative report called The Hydrogen Hype,

Gas Industry Fairy Tale or climate horror story,

question mark. CEO published this report together with two other NGOs, Food and Water Action

Europe and Recommon. With this report, the three NGOs want to put a sensitive issue on the European political agenda,

being the incredible hype that's being built around hydrogen, and how this is basically

a Trojan horse for the fossil fuel industry.

Hydrogen, you said?

Yes, and please wait, do not stop listening. This is not a podcast about a

technical issue. It is highly political. And Belen Balagna basically explains why this hydrogen

hype is probably one of the biggest greenwashing examples in recent history. While hydrogen is

being hyped by fossil fuel companies, helped

by the global consultancy firm FTI and policy makers alike, this could be the final

make-or-break story for the European Green Deal and even for a European climate policy

that will deliver the goals of the Paris Agreement signed five years

ago. And yes, hydrogen is clean, in the sense that when used, it does not emit greenhouse gases.

But it is not so much about the consumption of hydrogen that matters. In a climate context,

it is how it's produced.

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