LatinNews Daily - 25 August 2023

* Brazil’s mining & energy ministry (MME) has launched the Programa Nacional do Hidrogênio (PNH2), a three-year investment plan for research, development and innovation in the green hydrogen sector. By 2025 the federal government plans to invest R$200m (US$41m) in the sector, up from the R$29m invested in 2020. In the MME’s press release, the minister of mining & energy, Alexandre Silveira, was cited as saying that his ministry would “be also working on the definition of a national legal-regulatory framework for hydrogen” which would be presented to congress. The PNH2 involves a total of 65 initiatives over the next three years, 32 of which are already underway. The MME estimated that Brazil had the technical potential to produce 1.8 gigatonnes of hydrogen per year. The plan also aims to engage private corporations and for other industries and sectors, such as transport, to get involved in PNH2 projects.