Morocco’s strategic position is a clear competitive advantage for the Kingdom to become a regional hub for e-fuels, Transport and Logistics Minister Mohamed Abdeljalil stressed on Monday in Munich.
“Morocco has significant potential in terms of renewable energy production, and in particular for the production of green hydrogen”, said Abdeljalil, during the International Conference on e-fuels, organized by the German Ministry of Digital Technologies and Transport (BMDV).
Morocco’s transport sector has expanded significantly over the past two decades, with major achievements in the development of transport infrastructure and the liberalization of many transport services, highlighted the Minister.
The Kingdom is sincerely committed to sustainable development and has ambitiously raised the threshold of its nationally determined contribution (NDC) to 45.5% by 2030, the government official reported, stressing the need to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of transport systems alongside developing demand-side measures.
In this context, Abdeljalil noted that the country’s action would focus in particular on improving the energy efficiency of transport systems and developing clean transport systems using renewable energies, while encouraging new forms of mobility such as active mobility and optimizing logistics.
Morocco, well aware of the globalized nature of the transport sector, has deployed all efforts to support international initiatives launched to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as the Declaration of the Coalition on Climate Ambition for International Aviation as well as the Clydebank Declaration for Green Maritime Corridors, the minister explained.
Last July, “HM King Mohammed VI invited the government to speed up the implementation of ‘Morocco’s offer’ in the field of green H2, to ensure compliance with quality requirements, to exploit the country’s significant potential in this area, and to meet the expectations of the world’s leading investors in this promising field”, added the Minister.
This first e-fuels conference was attended by ministers from around 11 countries, including Portugal, Switzerland, Japan, Canada and the Czech Republic, along with 72 participants.
During the ministerial session of this event, participants emphasized the need to find solutions for people’s mobility, using e-fuels, and developing technologies for green transport.
Speakers at the conference also stressed the importance of adapting new clean energy technologies to the socio-economic realities of each country, which can only be achieved by working together to produce profitable, job-creating clean energies.
This conference aims to create a common knowledge base by establishing an international network of decision-makers from politics, industry and the scientific community, and to find synergies for an accelerated take-up of the e-fuels market.
Source: Agency Morocaine De Presse