FX.co ★ «Dirty dozen» of coal billionaires from The Guardian

The Guardian included 12 billionaires into the “dirty" list, all they possesses shares of the major coal holdings. It is noteworthy that Russians take seven lines in the list of “dirty dozen".

Hindu Vinod Shantilal Adani turned out to be the “dirtiest" coal billionaire. The businessman owns a share of $900 million in the Indian Adani Enterprises coal company. Adani's part is about 2.1 billion tons of coal of the enterprise's total reserves. Such an amount of fossil during combustion can produce a volume of carbon dioxide equal to the emissions of the entire Indian population in a year.

The second place is occupied by the Russian businessman Roman Abramovich. The billionaire has a share of $766 million in the Evraz company. Abramovich also owns about a fourth of the large Russian coal mine “Raspadskaya". One fourth of the mine is 1.52 billion tons of coal.

It should be noted that Abramovich's colleague, co-owner of the Evraz holding Alexander Abramov (in the picture) took the third place of the “dirty dozen", and the Director General of the company Alexander Frolov was placed on the seventh line.

Suleyman Kerimov (in the picture), one more representative of Russia, occupied the fifth line of the "dirty dozen". The businessman owns the share of Polyus Gold, he possesses 40% of the company. According to experts, the entrepreneur's share is 923 million tons of coal of the company's total reserves. The eight and ninth lines of the rating were taken by Kerimov's colleagues, Gavriil Yushayev and Oleg Mkrtchan.

The rest of the lines in the "dirty dozen" went to Tuku Wong, a businessman from Indonesia (in the picture), who owns 51% of shares of Bayan Resources, Aivan Glasenberg, Daniel Badenes and Aristotle Mistakidis, co-owners of the Glencore Xstralia mining giant, as well as another representative from Russia Vadim Danilov, who owns a share of $25 million of the Kuzbass fuel company.

For the record, the most "modest" billionaire of this rating is 391 million tons of raw materials. fuel The combustion of such amount of fuel will give the volume of carbon dioxide equal to that produced annually by Australia and Italy combined.