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Oct 2021
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Andrew Forrest: Mega-polluter turned cli...

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Stephen Sackur speaks to Andrew Forrest, an Australian billionaire mining magnate who is using a chunk of his fortune to push a green, hydrogen-based energy solution. In the run up to the Glasgow climate change summit, his conversion to decarbonisation is timely, but is it credible?

(Photo: Andrew Forrest in the Hardtalk studio)

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