‘The heating climate is coming to you’: Fortescue chair Andrew Forrest calls on ‘lazy’ execs to join climate crusade | PeteMilne4
and added a new arm to the company – Fortescue Future Industries – to make green hydrogen and develop clean energy technology for mining operations.
Forrest is perhaps unique in corporate Australia in that his language about climate change matches the scope and urgency of the problem that is now well-established by science. Fortescue could not be accused of the common greenwashing tactics of minimising damage from fossil fuels or deflecting the discussion into an ill-defined worry about energy security triggered by curtailed oil and gas supply from Russia.
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