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From The Sunday Times
March 1, 2009

Stephan Schmidheiny (Switzerland)

GREEN RANKING FOR 2009
Ranking: 23=
Worth: £1.9bn
Green investment: Sustainable development

Stephan Schmidheiny has removed himself from all formal positions at the family cement company Eternit and lives in Costa Rica, focusing on philanthropy. His 1992 pamphlet, Changing Course, argued that eco-efficiency and sustainable development were good for business. He has promoted GrupoNueva, his Latin American building products and forestry companies, as models of environmentally sound capitalism. Among his investments is a British solar panel company, Solarcentury. In 2003, he donated $1 billion to sustainable development programmes. Bilan magazine in its December 2008 Swiss rich list put his fortune at nearly £1.9 billion.

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