The signing of the Paris Agreement has made countries around the world enter the track of renewable energy development one after another. On December 9, 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron, Spanish Prime Minister Alexis Sanchez, Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa and European Commission President von der Leyan met in Alicante, Spain, to discuss the construction schedule and financing of the new hydrogen pipeline project of the three countries.

The H2MED hydrogen pipeline linking eastern Spain and southern France will cost nearly 2.5 billion euros, said Spanish Prime Minister Alexis Sanchez. "This pipeline will be operational by the end of the century and will strengthen the European Union's strategic autonomy in energy." The undersea pipeline will carry green hydrogen between Barcelona, Spain, and Marseille, France.

In October 2022, the leaders of France, Spain and Portugal agreed at a trilateral meeting to work together on a greener energy interconnection project to replace a gas pipeline through Spain's border with France, which they had been unable to agree on. Editor/Xu Shengpeng