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Jennifer Hewett

Forrest’s global green dream runs into domestic politics

Andrew Forrest is focused on developing new green industries and green energy. Can he straddle the contradictions of Australia’s domestic energy politics?

Jennifer HewettColumnist

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Andrew Forrest was at a formal dinner at the World Economic Forum in Davos last year, listening to CEOs of major oil and gas companies explaining how difficult it would be to reduce carbon emissions sufficiently to avoid rising temperatures.

“I decided I was not going to leave the world to these clowns,” he tells The Australian Financial Review.

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