In Belgium, The Financial Times reported that the European Union’ efforts to establish hydrogen as a clean fuel have been criticised by the EU’s audit body in a recent report which says that the bloc will not achieve its “unrealistic” targets. The European Court of Auditors said the European Commission “did not undertake robust analyses” before setting production and import targets totaling 10mn tons of renewable hydrogen by 2030, according to the report. “The EU targets turned out to be overly ambitious: based on the available information from member states and industry, the EU is unlikely to meet them by 2030,” the report stated. Stef Blok, who led the report, told the Financial Times that hydrogen was vital to the EU’s ambitions to reach net zero emissions by 2050, but the targets were “not really founded upon the capacity at hand”.
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