Hydrogen-derived green energy is widely perceived as a potential game-changer in tackling climate change. With the pressure to reduce global emissions and achieve temperature targets, it is the focus of numerous innovators, businesses, and financial institutions. Increasingly, the question of green hydrogen is coming to the fore in both the United Nations annual climate summits, as well as across regional and national clean energy conversations.
Where are the large investors?
Critically, the world’s largest asset owners – including pension funds, insurance reserves, sovereign wealth funds – need to be sensitized to the risks and rewards of investment in the future of green hydrogen. Magic, myth, or investable reality?
Focus
We need to catalyse an accelerated, co-ordinated, collaborative approach drawing in investors to set in place the foundations of a global green hydrogen economy. What investor pathway will see proven technologies deployed at scale? The focus will be on the “should, when, why and how” large asset owners can consider allocating capital at scale to a green hydrogen economy. We are initiating this conversation to explore sustainability challenges and create an investor pathway for what will become the Mishcon Purpose Sovereign Green Hydrogen/Large Asset Owner project.
To help provide this much-needed impetus, Mishcon Purpose is initiating a dialogue for industry, investors, policymakers, and green hydrogen entrepreneurs on Wednesday 5 July at Africa House, our home in the heart of London’s legal district.
Why you should attend
- Participate in informed conversations with core hydrogen influencers, research partners and other key individuals across government, industry, and academia.
- A meeting of influential minds and diverse approaches, with the emphasis on open discussion and collaborative commitment.
- The opportunity to share expertise, exploring possibilities and identifying strategies to accelerate delivery of practical, clean energy at scale leading to a green global hydrogen economy to turbo charge decarbonisation.
The structure
Where are we now?
- Assessing the current ecological and geopolitical situation and understanding the challenges and imperatives.
Where would we like to be?
- Establishing a pan-global partnership that is ready and able to deliver global green hydrogen energy.
How do we get there together?
- Discussing and agreeing achievable targets for technology, strategy, funding and timescale, culminating in an initial summary report.
Why Mishcon Purpose?
- With our strong links across the sector, we can facilitate and coordinate the conversation.
- Energy production involves a complex technical and legislative landscape, which we can help parties navigate from our broad sector perspective and legal insight.
- We start from an informed and determined position. Mishcon Purpose is our specialist sustainability business, with leading expertise across the full spectrum of ESG issues and related law. Like our clients, we are committed to having a material positive impact on society and the environment and operating as a socially responsible business.
“Our purpose remains rooted in our founding values. We have always been driven by an entrepreneurial, tenacious and socially conscious spirit: one that has always embraced change in order to stay relevant and shape the future.
From our offices in London, Cambridge, Oxford and Singapore, and through our association with Karas So LLP in Hong Kong, we still counsel clients around the world with the same vision, dedication and passion that we set out with. We continue to fight for freedoms, settle disputes, protect assets and grow businesses. We fiercely guard our clients’ interests and appreciate the privilege of sitting alongside them as a trusted advisor.
However, we believe that lawyers must move from the age of instruction to the age of anticipation: to be pro-active, harness the law’s potential and unlock possibilities others do not see, and to champion diversity, innovation and sustainability.
We appreciate that business has never been so personal.”
