#EUHydrogenWeek 2025 High-Level Policy Conf 30.09.2025 How DE regions are driving EU net-zero future

How German regions are driving Europe’s net-zero future Germany’s future Net Zero Valleys and Germany Trade & Invest will attend this year’s European Hydrogen Week High Level Policy Conference to discuss the exciting hydrogen opportunities available in the country’s regions in transformation. Europe’s newly enacted Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA) seeks to promote European net zero technology (NZT) production capacity. An ambitious target of at least 40 percent of the European Union’s annual NZT requirements by 2030 is promoting cleantech investment and creating new market opportunities in Germany’s regions of transformation. Regions such as Lusatia, Northwest Lower Saxony, the Rhenish Mining Region and Schleswig-Holstein are establishing the first Net Zero Valleys in Europe and already show the NZT way forward. In this fireside chat attendees will learn more about the significance of the NZIA for Germany, NZT market potential, and the importance of hydrogen technologies to the future development of net zero acceleration sites. Fireside chat: MELANIE WALTER, Minister for Europe and Regional Development of Lower Saxony BEATE BARON, Head of Department for Industrial Policy at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Moderated by: JORGO CHATZIMARKAKIS, CEO, Hydrogen Europe