Twiggy branches out with VIP plus-one at society shindig
The years of turning up to climate events such as COP, Davos and the International Energy Agency has paid benefits for mining billionaire Dr Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest.
Sorry, that should read 'technology, energy and metals' billionaire Dr Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest, who is 'accelerating commercial decarbonisation of industry, rapidly, profitably and globally'.
Alas, not because the executive chairman of Fortescue has achieved his dream of green hydrogen, but because it allowed him late last week to step out in style at the Time 100 Most Influential People Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Centre in New York as the list's sole Australian entry.
His plus one for the red carpet was former US ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, although some media outlets including Yahoo News saw fit to make her the main event.
CBD hears that Twiggy, who was afforded a Time cover story in February pictured in R. M. Williams clobber (owned by his investment company Tattarang), got on the magazine's radar through his connections with US climate influentials John Kerry and Al Gore.
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The mag listed Forrest as a 'transformative titan' in an appreciation penned by Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency.
'Not content with building one of the world's biggest mining companies, he's now in the process of turning it from a major emitter into a clean-energy powerhouse,' Birol wrote.
Emphasis on the process here folks.
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