Legal Framework of Green Hydrogen Production and Hydrogen Economy for Sustainable Development by Ibrar Ahmad, Jamil Afzal and Siraj Ahmad

Abstract

The book makes a positive contribution to the new area of hydrogen law and governance. Although a lot of the literature is either engineering-based or policy-based, this book is an attempt to fill the gap between doctrinal legal analysis and technical knowledge of energy systems. It assists in the expanding discussion of sustainable energy transitions, energy justice, and harmonization of world regulations. Because of the quickly developing hydrogen markets, particularly in the framework of energy security and decarbonization, the book can be considered a valuable background resource for scholars, regulators, and graduate students of environmental law, energy law, and sustainability studies. Compared to the rest of the academic literature on the topic of hydrogen and energy transition, this book stands out due to its legal-technical nature. A significant portion of the current literature on hydrogen, and especially literature published by agencies like the International Energy Agency and the International Renewable Energy Agency, has had a tendency to emphasize the eventuality of techno-economic feasibility, cost trends, and the deployment of infrastructure as the main concern and regulatory challenges as secondary issues. Likewise, engineering literature is focused on the efficiency of electrolysis, carbon capture effectiveness, and integrating systems, whereas environmental law literature also tends to discuss the issue of climate governance broadly without a specific focus on hydrogen-based production routes. In comparison, the book provides a comparison between doctrinal legal study and technical descriptions of hydrogen production processes, providing a systemized scrutiny of the coordination of regulations, certification, trade, and sustainability management. It offers a different perspective, putting hydrogen into comparative and international legal conditions, and thus addressing a significant gap between engineering literature and normative regulatory literature.