A Hydrogen-Led Net-Zero Future, Seagrass-Based Carbon Credits, And A Chat With Tetra Pak’s Lars Holmquist – EQ Mag Pro

Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested this week that the Senate should “can” the whole Build Back Better Act, which the Democrats have hailed as a historic investment in clean energy and climate solutions.

The legislation includes tax credits to manufacturers of electric vehicles whose workforce is unionized, which is not Tesla’s case. It’s nonetheless an apparently contradictory position for the world’s richest person, whose businesses benefited from nearly $5 billion in government support, as reported by the LA Times in 2015.

But Tesla is currently facing turbulence—a second sexual harassment lawsuit, a SEC investigation (as reported by Reuters) and delays at its Gigafactory in Germany which will likely push its opening into 2022. More competition would only add to those headaches.

This week, we’re also looking into hydrogen’s potential to usher in a net-zero future, the world’s first seagrass-based carbon credit program, and more. For Climate Talks, I spoke to Lars Holmquist, Tetra Pak’s executive vice president for sustainability and communications, about the company’s plans to reduce waste and produce renewable packaging…Read More...