Directional certainty for the climate turnaround: Borderstep launches new project

Hydrogen as a panacea?

Is hydrogen really the panacea in the climate crisis? Together with the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), Borderstep is analyzing in a new project the areas in which the use of hydrogen appears to make sense for achieving climate goals.

Hydrogen – panacea or hype?

The starting point for the project is the observation that there is currently a massive “overbooking” of green hydrogen by a large number of sectors. This potentially leads to climate targets not being met and there could be negative impacts on alternative transformation pathways.

Providing directional certainty for the climate turnaround

The project builds on insights from interdisciplinary transformation research and the findings of the ITA project Governance of Radical System Innovations (Go) on the importance of directional certainty for the successful transformation of energy, industry and mobility systems.

Your Contacts

Dr. Jens Clausen
  • Co-founder
  • Senior Researcher
Prof. Dr. Klaus Fichter
  • Founder and Director
  • +49 30 306 45 100-0

Borderstep News

EMSIS: Intelligent Energy Management for Server Systems 07.07.2026

Millions of server systems consume energy every day - even though many of them are not performing any operational tasks at certain times. The newly launched EMSIS research project is developing a smart solution to safely tap into this potential. More

Award for Research on Sustainable Business Models 15.06.2026

A research paper co-authored by Borderstep Senior Researcher Dr. Tobias Froese and Borderstep Research Fellow Prof. Dr. Florian Lüdeke-Freund has received the Sustainability & Societal Impact Award at the Business Model Conference 2026. More

Best Paper Award for Borderstep at ICT4S 2026 12.06.2026

Borderstep researchers Dr. Severin Beucker and Simon Hinterholzer have received the Best Paper Award at ICT4S 2026. Their award-winning research explores the sustainability implications of Europe's data centre boom and the implementation of the Energy Efficiency Directive. More