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Action Plan to Accelerate Future Fuels

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Future Fuels, such as sustainable biofuels, clean hydrogen and its derivatives (ammonia, e-fuels, e-methane), can drastically reduce emissions, and are therefore essential in the transition to net zero – particularly for the transport sector and heavy industries such as cement and steel production.

The CEM Action Plan to Accelerate Future Fuels was launched at the 15th Clean Energy Ministerial in 2024 in Brazil with the aim of bringing CEM members and fuels-related workstreams together to accelerate the deployment of future fuels.

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Launched by the Ministers of nine CEM member countries, the Action Plan consists of 20 actions by interested governments, industry and partner organisations. These collaborative actions accelerate the use and supply of Future Fuels by promoting:

  • Increased demand for, and use of, future fuels,
  • Integrated global supply chains,
  • Common and transparent standards for lifecycle carbon accounting and the sustainability of fuels.

The need to accelerate the production and use of Future Fuels has been recognised over the years by the G7, G20 and more recently captured in the UAE Consensus encompassing the outcome of the first Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement adopted at the 28th UN Climate Change Conference.

Read the full CEM Action Plan to Accelerate Future Fuels here.

Implementation of the three pillars in 2025 and onwards:

Action is already underway to implement the Action Plan, with examples including:

Pillar 1: Increased demand for future fuels

CEM members are working to expand the IDDI Green Public Procurement Pledge, scale-up the use of sustainable chemicals and feedstocks in industrial decarbonisation (IDDI), and increase demand for low emissions hydrogen (Hydrogen Initiative).

Pillar 2: Integrated global supply chains

CEM members are working to integrate global supply chains through the launch of ‘Activation Roadmaps’ for international hydrogen trade corridors at COP30 (Hydrogen Initiative / International Hydrogen Trade Forum), position ports as clean energy centres (CEM Hubs Initiative), and scale marine transport of captured carbon through CEM Hubs and CEM CCUS Initiatives.

Pillar 3: Common and transparent standards

CEM members are creating a new Lifecycle Carbon Accounting (LCA) working group to build international and cross-sectoral coherence in carbon accounting (cross-sector).

Stay tuned here for implementation updates in 2025.

Workstreams implementing the Action Plan

hydrogen
marine hubs
iddi
ccus 1
biofuture platform