Andrew Forrest, known as Twiggy, is an Australian businessman born in Perth in 1961 and raised on the family cattle station at Minderoo in the Pilbara. He is the founder and executive chairman of the mining company Fortescue, and his family holding company Tattarang invests across energy, agri-food, resources and other sectors, with an energy division called Squadron Energy. He has become a prominent advocate of green hydrogen: in his 2020 Boyer Lecture he made the case for hydrogen energy, and in 2021 he pledged to eliminate nearly all carbon emissions from Fortescue operations by 2030 through solar and wind power, battery transport and green hydrogen. He has also promoted green ammonia as a carbon-free shipping fuel and the cargo ship Green Pioneer.
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is an Australian businessman
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In 2017 Forrest was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia
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He gave the 2020 Boyer Lecture to outline a case for hydrogen energy and ways to manage human impacts on the oceans.
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