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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. “Hydrogen's big gamble:fluff or is it the Holy Grail of net zero emissions?”, was the headline of one article of Guardian last October who wondered whether we can really rely on green hydrogen to achieve climate goals. An article by Adrian Odenweller and Falko Ueckerdt of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, authors of one study published on Nature Energy in September, he tried to answer this question by analyzing how quickly the world would need to produce green hydrogen – produced by splitting water with electricity generated from low-carbon sources – to help limit warming to 1.5°C. Hydrogen:a solution to climate change or another gift to the fossil fuel industry?   Hydrogen is set to become one of the building blocks for achieving global climate goals, but current production comes almost exclusively from high-carbon sources. It...