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Big miners including Fortescue Metals and BHP committing to big carbon reductions – ABC News
Fortescue Metals Group, the iron ore miner that emits 2 million tonnes of carbon per year, has announced it will go carbon neutral in nine years’ time, well before…
Fortescue Metals Group, the iron ore miner which emits two million tonnes of carbon per year, has announced it will go carbon neutral in nine years’ time, well before the world’s biggest carbon emitting economies are planning.
Key points:
- Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, chairman of Fortescue Metals Group, says the fossil fuel industry is “perhaps our most dangerous industry in the world”
- BHP has pledged to get to net zero emissions by 2050
- Ian Dunlop, former chair of the Australia Coal Association, says…
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