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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Health
Ian Neubauer

A bit rich? Billionaires’ climate efforts draw scepticism, praise

Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest is among a number of billionaires pouring money into the fight against climate change [File: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg]

Australia’s second-richest person, mining magnate Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, is known to his admirers as a down-to-earth, straight-shooting businessman cut from the same cloth as self-made billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.

And like his contemporaries in the United States, Forrest, the chairman of Fortescue Metals, the world’s fourth-largest iron ore producer, has taken on a leading role in the fight against climate change.

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