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Cruise ships have a "disproportionate impact" on air quality, habitats and climate, according to Transport & Environment. Moving away from reliance on polluting fossil fuels has become a priority for the shipping industry. What technologies can be used to create more sustainable cruise ships?

From grey to green. From carbon to hydrogen. From Paris to the rest of the world. Renewable gases such as biomethane or green hydrogen will be the main characters in the following years. Clean energies that find in innovation the perfect ally to reach a common goal: to be carbon neutral by 2050.

The great promise of renewables is ready to take off. The introduction of so called green hydrogen, which until now has been limited by its high production cost and lack of regulation, is becoming the focus of plans to make the transition to clean energy a reality this decade.

The electric vehicle market welcomes cars with combustion batteries for individuals. The hydrogen-powered cars shares its reduced carbon footprint with the battery-powered ones and incorporates considerable improvements with respect to its competitor in aspects such as autonomy or refuelling, although for its implementation it still has to overcome certain limitations.