Hello and welcome to Business Weekly. I'm Matthew Davis. On the program this week, we take a look at the

continuing war on drugs and how the Mexican cartels have been taking advantage of the pandemic

restrictions in the United States. Also, we ask if having one or two wealthy owners is the best route to a winning strategy for football clubs,

and we look at the deal the Australian government struck to buy the licence for the Aboriginal flag.

Now that the image is free to use, is that the end of the matter?

First, though, the greener side of mining.

Now, mining is rarely seen as a particularly carbon-friendly industry,

but there are moves within the sector to reduce its contribution to climate change.

And that makes sense if the metals used to make the likes of wind turbines and solar panels

are extracted from the earth by a carbon heavy and environmentally damaging process,

in a way it defeats the whole point.

Some governments are helping their mining sectors go greener.

In South Africa, for example, the limit on companies being able to generate their

own electricity without a licence has been raised from one megawatt to 100, paving the way for many

mines to install renewable projects. So, enter Fortescue Metals, one of the world's largest

iron ore miners.

Its founder and chairman Andrew Forrest is Australia's richest man,

and he's very keen to invest in greener technologies.

Here he's talking to the BBC's Stephen Sacker.

If I could click a switch, Stephen, I'd have clicked that switch already.

Instead, I've gone wholeheartedly, I'm talking body on the line here. I've travelled everywhere. I did a PhD into this. I've been looking at it now for about 11 years

and now taking my whole company with me to say our future is fully green and the reason is not only

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