‘Absolutely come’: Billionaire ‘Twiggy’ Forrest calls on Xi Jinping to attend climate summit | BevanShields
Billionaire mining magnate Andrew Forrest is urging China to come to the Glasgow climate summit, arguing the world’s largest polluter should “show off” its potential to achieve net zero emissions much sooner than its goal of 2060.
The Fortescue Metals Group chairman, who has an estimated net wealth of $27.2 billion, has spent most of 2021 travelling the world to spruik theHe will be based in London for the rest of October before attending the Glasgow summit. Newspapers, billboards, electric buses and taxis in the British capital and conference host city will be covered in branding for Fortescue Future Industries, Forrest’s green hydrogen company.
The absence of such a key piece of the international climate puzzle is one of several factors behind growing fears that the summit will fail. “I worry for those politicians who are struggling with the change, who keep on harping on with the same fear-mongering,” Forrest said.“When you look at it deeply, they’re actually quite cruel. What they’re saying is, ‘please vote for me even though I am totally misinforming you’.”
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