Under the Sustainable Infrastructure Programme in Asia (SIPA) activitiy on Aligning national policy frameworks for energy, transport and industry, The OECD, together with UNDP’s Mongolia country office and the Mongolian Hydrogen Council, organised a Roundtable to discuss the opportunity to create an enabling domestic policy framework for developing the production of green hydrogen in Mongolia. In line with the objectives of SIPA, this can effectively contribute to attracting investment to clean energy industries and diversifying exports, decarbonising domestic heavy industries, and ultimately bringing the national economy on a path to net-zero.
The Roundtable brought together over 60 participants, including representatives of the government of Mongolia and relevant public authorities, representatives of the domestic energy industry, and international experts. Participants learnt about international experience in supporting and developing green hydrogen projects, exchanged on ongoing projects in Mongolia, and shared their views on challenges and opportunities, including on the following topics:
- How can green hydrogen contribute to shaping a low-carbon development vision for Mongolia?
- In particular, what role can it play to decarbonise domestic industries?
- What are the short-term and long-term actions that Mongolian policy-makers could undertake to support the development of green hydrogen, ensuring that it contributes to its sustainable development objectives?
As a follow-up to this Roundtable, the OECD, under SIPA, is accompanying Mongolia with the development of a strategic vision for the future development of green hydrogen as an enabler of its green, low-carbon transition.
This event was a part of SIPA which is funded by the the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection through the International Climate Initiative (IKI).