AGL News: Australia’s AGL Energy case shows the growing power of green capital - 3rd Jun 2022, 12:56am

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Last month, a clean energy investor named Simon Holmes à Court, son of Australia’s first billionaire, helped to oust the country’s coal-friendly conservative government. A few days ago, a 42-year-old Sydney tech billionaire, Mike Cannon-Brookes, upended AGL Energy, a 185-year-old mainstay of Australia’s business establishment and its biggest carbon emitter. The two men belong to a new generation of wealthy businesspeople ready to use their resources to hasten a shift away from ...

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