Green Hydrogen

“Net Zero Pathways”: Green Hydrogen for Carbon Neutrality

The 2nd Annual Meeting of the Carbon Hub in Hammamet on 6-7 December 2025 felt like a clear step forward in how Tunisia is organising its green hydrogen conversation with real scientific depth and real regional ambition. Co-organised by the Research Consortium on Green Hydrogen Technology and Economics for Tunisia’s Energy and Ecological Transition and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Tunisia office, the meeting explored a wide spread of Power-to-X pathways, technology options, and enabling policy questions with a strong focus on carbon neutrality.

It is also important to underline the story behind the consortium itself. The momentum was built after the Power-to-X academic seminar held in Monastir on 26 October 2024, organised by LESTE, the Green H2 Tunisia network, and FNF Tunisia office.

From that point, FNF’s role was not just supportive in a general sense, but catalytic, helping convert a research dialogue into a structured academic consortium that can contribute to Tunisia’s hydrogen roadmap and policy realism.

This is exactly where hydrogen becomes a bridge between Europe and North Africa. The EU’s REPowerEU ambition aims for 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen produced in Europe and 10 million tonnes imported by 2030.

In parallel, the Southern Hydrogen Corridor concept explicitly frames Algeria and Tunisia as partner countries in a future large-scale supply route connecting North Africa to Italy, Austria and Germany.

The wider SoutH2 Corridor vision is already described as a 3,300 km pipeline pathway linking these regions, signalling that the infrastructure imagination is moving from theory to planning.

For Tunisia, the value of this bridge is not only export potential. It is also about accelerating domestic decarbonisation, building skills, supporting young researchers, and shaping a governance framework that keeps the transition evidence-based and economically credible. In that sense, the Carbon Hub is becoming more than an annual meeting. It is a platform where the Euro-Mediterranean hydrogen future can be designed with Tunisia as a co-author, not just a supplier.