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Experts Urge G8 Heads of State to Place Hydrogen High on National Agendas

MIAMI, FL NOVEMBER 17 – A group of 20 international scientists long in the forefront of hydrogen energy work and advocacy this week sent a memorandum to the heads of state of the G8 countries urging them to place hydrogen energy at the top of their respective countries’ agendas.

The 20 signers, most of them members of the Miami-based International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE), urged the heads of state of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russian, United Kingdom, and the United States, to “commit to hydrogen energy technologies as a permanent solution to the upcoming energy/climate catastrophe.”

A copy was sent to U.N. Secretary General Kofi A. Annan as well as to the heads of United Nations organizations UNIDO, UNDP and UNEP.

The next G8 summit is scheduled for June 6-8, 2007 in Heiligendamm on the Baltic Sea in northern Germany. To be chaired by Germany, the meeting’s focus is planned to be on investment, innovation and sustainability.

Hydrogen energy, the memorandum said, is the storage and transportation agent of “so far dormant renewable sources which...will become a powerful agent to the global energy trade,” and a key factor in addressing the two major problems facing humanity: anthropogenic climate change and the oligopolization of traditional fossil or nuclear primary fuel.

Signers include some startup members of IAHE, launched in the early 1970s, such as John O’M. Bockris, Stanislav Malyshenko, Cesare Marchetti, Patrick K. Takahashi, Carl-Jochen Winter, Tokio Ohta, and IAHE founder and president T. Nejat Veziroglu.

(A more detailed version of this report will appear in the upcoming December online and print issues of The Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter).

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