IntroductionThis month hydrogen “moved” a lot of communities around the world. At the World Hydrogen Energy Conference, WHEC 2012, more than 1.000 registered participants, gathering in the financial district in downtown Toronto, tried to move the Canadian government to step up its support for larger scale use of hydrogen as an energy storage solution and in clean urban transport. The EHA presented several FCH JU projects at the WHEC (HyFacts and HyLift Demo) and co organised a session at the WHEC on collaboration between “emerging hydrogen economies”. This session followed a meeting in Capetown in which South Africa moved the country representatives at the International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel cells meeting to a whole new level of global collaboration engaging local players and expertise.
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