VITO and RMI map out how Odisha (India) could supply cost-competitive green ammonia to Northwest Europe, including Antwerp-Bruges. The prefeasibility study concluded by RMI in collaboration with VITO signals opportunity for at least 1 million tons of annual Odisha, India-Northwest EU green ammonia trade by 2030. News 5 November 2026 Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) today released Unlocking an Odisha, India-Northwest Europe Green Ammonia Trade Corridor, a prefeasibility study developed in collaboration with VITO. The report was presented at the Bharat RE Summit 2026 in presence of leadership of India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI). RMI has led the corridor coordination, industry engagements and the study, with VITO providing strategic and technical support on European demand and infrastructure. The findings draw on almost two years of convening and input from more than 20 organisations, including European off-takers, Indian producers, port authorities, infrastructure developers, and demand aggregators. This initiative is supported by the New Energy Industrial Strategy Center (NEIS Center). The report finds that green ammonia trade between India and Europe can advance both regions' priorities, offering European industry secure, affordable clean molecules while providing Indian producers the export-oriented demand they need to scale. The study assesses the conditions under which the Indian state of Odisha can supply industrial clusters in Antwerp-Bruges, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Rotterdam, and what it would take to move the first substantial volumes as early as 2030. "Odisha, India - Northwest Europe green ammonia corridor represents a significant opportunity for India and Europe to advance their strategic priorities together. For India, it can unlock investment, scale green ammonia production, and strengthen its position in emerging global clean energy markets. For Europe, it can provide access to competitive, diversified supplies of green molecules needed to transition European heavy industry and transport in a competitive way while strengthening energy security. By connecting these complementary strengths and players across the whole value chain, the corridor can turn shared ambition into a durable clean energy partnership by enabling the first commercial agreements and projects to happen by 2030" - Oleksiy Tatarenko, Senior Principal, RMI Key findings. * Odisha, India can supply cost-competitive green ammonia to Northwest Europe. The state has attracted more than 6.5 million tons per year of announced capacity across eight developers, and about 0.8 million tons is under construction. Analysis estimates that RFNBO-compliant green ammonia from Odisha could land at Northwest European ports for about €665-€774 (US$755-US$879) per ton, making India an attractive source for European buyers. * European refineries may offer the earliest demand anchor for imported green ammonia. Refineries already use hydrogen and the EU's Renewable Energy Directive III (RED III) sets targets for renewable hydrogen in transport fuels. While refineries are looking into on-site electrolysis and other domestic-based options to help them comply with the directive, imported green ammonia could offer a complementary compliance pathway. Germany supports its transport quota with noncompliance penalties, and refineries in Hamburg and North Rhine-Westphalia could need about 0.8 million tons of green ammonia by 2030 if they were to meet their share entirely through imports. Using hydrogen cracked from Indian green ammonia would add an estimated €30-€90 per ton of fuel, mostly below Germany's penalty of €88-€210 per ton. Demand from fertiliser, chemical, and maritime shipping could follow. * Value chain coordination is the main barrier. The four clusters of Antwerp-Bruges, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Rotterdam already consume about 1.8 million tons of hydrogen a year, nearly all of it from natural gas. However, slow national transposition of EU renewable fuel targets and lagging import and cracking infrastructure are holding back demand uptake for clean molecules. The market is also at an impasse because each player is waiting on another. Off-takers will not sign long-term contracts without cost-competitive supply and infrastructure that can serve them. Midstream developers will not take a final investment decision (FID) without contracted throughput. Producers cannot reach financial close without creditworthy offtake. A coordinated corridor breaks that cycle by aggregating demand, aligning timelines, and showing where public support is needed to close the remaining cost gap. "For Northwest Europe, the opportunity is to diversify supplies of clean molecules while supporting industrial competitiveness. Realising this potential requires European buyers, ports and infrastructure developers to work together to aggregate demand and align investment timelines. This study provides an independent evidence base for those decisions and a foundation for turning a promising trade route into concrete projects," - Pieter Lodewijks, Programme Manager at VITO Next, RMI, with support from VITO, plan to lead a full feasibility assessment and launch a formal Odisha, India-Northwest Europe corridor coalition. The work will transition from whether the corridor can work to what it takes to build it. That means firming up buyer volumes and willingness to pay, shortlisting investment-ready Odisha projects, aligning production and infrastructure timelines, and structuring commercial arrangements that can carry projects to FID. Organisations interested in joining the coalition can contact Oleksiy Tatarenko at [email protected].

New Carbon Gap toolkit evaluates countries' Carbon Removal potential. November 2, 2026 * Carbon Gap has released a new toolkit that allows users to perform a carbon removal readiness accessment on a country level * This toolkit comes after two years of carbon removal readiness assessments performed on 7 different countries in Europe * Next week, the Carbon Gap team will present the toolkit at the Think Negative Pavilion at COP31 in Antalya, Turkey Carbon Gap has launched a free, open-access toolkit that enables users to assess how much carbon dioxide removal (CDR) a country could realistically deliver. The toolkit can be found on the new Carbon Removal Readiness Assessment (CRRA) website, which also features all of Carbon Gap's Carbon Removal Readiness Assessments (CRRA) performed to date. Having spent the last two years collaborating with local partners to conduct CRRA evaluations on seven different countries, Garbon Gap is now releasing the methodology that was shaped out through this work experience. This new offering packages an assessment methodology that can be used by governments, researchers, and civil society organizations to run CRRA evaluations for their own country. "For two years we've been asking the same question, one country at a time: how much carbon could you actually remove? Now we're handing over the recipe. Any government, university, or NGO can pick up this toolkit and get a credible answer for their own country autonomously," said Sylvain Delerce, Chief Scientist at Carbon Gap. The elements included in the carbon removal assessment toolkit. To perform an assessment with the toolkit, users can rely on a step-by-step guide that covers the methodology, timelines, budgets, and staffing. Additionally, users can access templates that can be used to run a background report and to create a national CDR roadmap. Within this offering, Carbon Gap is also providing materials for stakeholder interviews and citizen panels, as well as a taxonomy of CDR methods and a database of resource requirements, developed in partnership with the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). An optimization tool allows users to perform modeling that shows how a country's resources could be efficiently allocated across different CDR methods. So far, Carbon Gap has published Carbon Removal Readiness Assessments for 7 countries in Europe, including Italy, Spain, Poland, Germany, France, Norway, and Finland. Moving forward, its team will present the newly released toolkit to national delegations at the Think Negative Pavilion at COP31 in Antalya, which will take place from 9 to 20 November 2026.

Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation links overseas demonstration and investment in k-climate tech in Malaysia. * Posted 2026.09.30. * 10:57 Climate technology developed in a domestic laboratory explored the potential for overseas demonstration and investment in the Asian market. Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation announced that it held the 'Green Society-RMI/D3 Climate Tech Pitching Session' on the 29th at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center (KLCC) in Malaysia together with global climate tech organizations RMI and Third Derivative (D3). This session was organized as an official program for the 'Energy Tech Summit Asia 2026 (ETS Asia),' which will be held on the 29th and 30th. This marks the first time the Energy Tech Summit, which has been held in Europe for seven years, has been held in Asia. Five research teams participating in the Foundation's climate technology research support program, 'Green Society,' took the stage for the pitching session. These included: Blue Carbon's marine carbon capture technology utilizing artificial coral polymers; Code of Nature's moss-based soil restoration technology; Korea Gridforming's serial gridforming solar inverter; Korea Energy Research Institute's CernShift's hollow fiber membrane for high-purity hydrogen production; and Huject's 'Energy Tree' technology that converts wasted kinetic energy into electricity. The research teams focused on the local problems they could solve and their commercialization potential rather than the technological principles themselves. They presented business models and differentiations for each technology, local demonstration plans, and strategies for expanding into the Asian market, and held one-on-one meetings with representatives from local Malaysian venture capital firms, accelerators, companies, and climate tech support organizations. Prior to the event, pitching consulting targeting global investors was also received from RMI and D3. This process is designed to go beyond merely introducing technology in the R&D stage to overseas markets and connect it to the stage of finding actual application sites, demonstration partners, and investors. This program is a follow-up to the 'Asia Climate Technology Startup Global Partnership' launched by the Foundation last August with Global Industry Hub, RMI, and D3. It focuses on reducing the difficulties domestic climate technology research teams face in accessing markets and networks during the process of overseas demonstration and commercialization following research and development. Following ETS Asia, the Foundation plans to conduct joint workshops with Malaysian government officials and visit local technology commercialization agencies. The plan is to continue follow-up meetings with the investors, companies, and research teams met at the event, and to leverage RMI's global network to concretize possibilities for overseas demonstrations, identification of demand sources, and investment linkages. Chung Moo-sung, Chairman of the Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-koo Foundation, stated, "This event connected the Green Society research team's technology to global markets and investment networks," adding, "We will expand ties with global partners so that climate technologies can be validated in overseas markets and lead to investment and business cooperation." Jo Yu-hyeon, reporter for The Better Future