{"id":351202,"date":"2022-02-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=351202"},"modified":"2022-02-01T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T07:00:00","slug":"germany-commits-to-hydrogen-and-digitalization-for-a-greener-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/germany-commits-to-hydrogen-and-digitalization-for-a-greener-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany commits to hydrogen and digitalization for a greener Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A crisis like the corona pandemic calls for decisive measures. The EU has freed up \u20ac723.8 billion <\/a>in an effort to use the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) to pull the European economy out of the recession caused by corona. In order to qualify for a share of this large bag of money, member states must submit a plan to the European Commission. In the series Decarbonizing Europe, we put those plans under a magnifying glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A clear signal for climate action and digitalization<\/em>.” This is how last April, Olaf Scholz, then Minister of Finance and now the German Chancellor, described<\/a> the Deutscher Afbau und Resilienzplan <\/em>(DARP), as our eastern neighbors call the recovery plan. He does not overstate a single word: 42 percent of the total \u20ac25.6 billion in subsidies that Germany has secured will be spent on the “green” transition and 53 percent has been set aside for the digital transition<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n