H2Global—formed by the Foundation and Hintco—is the world's sole active Green Market Maker, accelerating the shift to clean commodities by helping create liquid markets for low-carbon products across various sectors. The H2Global Foundation establishes global networks, engages decision-makers, and forges key partnerships with international institutions, companies, and philanthropies. This work leverages its data-driven analysis to support global deployment of the H2Global mechanism and other market-based tools.
The H2Global mechanism is a revolutionary, catalytic double-auction instrument designed to fix early market failures. It utilizes limited public capital to match supply with demand, rapidly accelerating the shift toward commercially viable clean commodities. An intermediary trades with producers and buyers, using public funds to bridge the temporary price gap. This strategy delivers bankability for producers while simultaneously driving down costs for clean products. Though launched for clean hydrogen, its powerful design is technology-agnostic and fully adaptable for deployment in other sectors.
We are the H2Global Foundation, an independent non-profit with global reach dedicated to advancing climate and environmental protection. We pioneer and support the development of market-based tools to drive the creation of liquid markets for low-carbon products across various sectors.
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Hintco, a wholly owned subsidiary of the H2Global Foundation, serves as the energy and commodity trader for the H2Global mechanism. Its core task is to plan, prepare and implement the competitive bidding processes for the purchase and sale of clean hydrogen-based products and other low-carbon products, thereby operationalizing the mechanism to actively shape the global energy transition.