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Andrew Forrest has continued his transformation from titan of carbon-heavy industry to green evangelist by launching a scathing attack on the oil and gas industry and imploring businesses to stop burning fossil fuels. Speaking at Cop28 in Dubai, where he arrived by a ship powered by green hydrogen, Forrest has told Guardian Australia about his worldwide ad campaign shaming oil and gas companies by portraying them as ostriches with their heads in the sand on climate science. And he says that if other companies don’t change they will have “blood on their hands”.
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