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This workshop serves as a prelude to the proposed research project, ‘Researching Green Hydrogen Futures in the Global South’. It seems the world is once again heading down a path of ‘confused green experimentation’! In the twilight of contentious large-scale green deals, another similar Green Vision (Green Hydrogen) is gaining a foothold in the Global Energy Transition Agenda. The enthusiasm, development trajectory, greenwashing discursive practices, scale of governance mechanisms, green finance politics, and the geography of the green hydrogen transition process are not significantly different from the predatory extractive practices, stranded asset risks, financial viability and market guarantee concerns, socio-ecological risks, and many mixed outcomes that characterised large-scale green projects in the Global South (e.g., land grabbing for biofuels, REDD+, and other forms of land enclosures for nature conservation initiatives), which aimed to leverage so-called marginal(ised) areas (e.g., arid, semi-arid, and sparsely populated regions). The two-day BayIntAn Workshop brings together experts to discuss cutting-edge green hydrogen technologies and related uncertainties in the Global South, ultimately fostering academic exchanges among Bavarian institutions and scholars, as well as those abroad, for a joint research grant application.

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