• Green hydrogen prompts Europe to relocate its energy-intensive industries to Africa.
• Allows Europe to turn off the Russian gas tap and silence Putin.
• Makes possible the breakthrough of Africa's modern industrialisation. (*)
• Encourages Europe to innovate in more sustainable and more recyclable manufacturing industries, to compensate for its loss of energy-intensive activities.
• The Euro-African example motivates other continents to copy their relocation of energy-intensive industries.
• End result: peace in Europe and a 25% reduction in global CO2 emissions. (**)

Technical potential for the production of green hydrogen at less than USD 1.5/kg (in exajoules): Africa 37%; Middle East 14%; North America 14%; Oceania 13%; Latin America 12%; Asia 9%; Europe 1% 

Shouldn't the EU be prepared for the fact that, sooner rather than later, energy-intensive industries will move to regions where green hydrogen is cheapest? In the past, the EU has already been a victim of the closure of coal mines, non-maritime steel, the loss of the textile industry, clothing and national aviation prides, the closure of car assembly and consumer electronics, but has been able to overcome, thanks to innovation and the creation of new markets,  the loss of hundreds of thousands of "indispensable" jobs.

When relocating energy-intensive industries to Africa, European green wind and solar energy can be reserved for normal residential and industrial use and will turn off the Russian gas tap.

Raychelle Omamo, Cabinet Secretary, Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ‘We realise in Africa that we don’t make enough, that we are not industrialised. Therefore, we need new partnerships that will fundamentally change Africa’s integration into the world market. Africa cannot be that continent that is simply there to produce raw materials for others’. (CSIS 28/1/2022)