{"id":41478,"date":"2022-02-08T12:38:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T03:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/feb\/08\/indian-coal-magnate-gautam-adani-becomes-asias-richest-person-after-solar-energy-drive"},"modified":"2022-02-08T12:38:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T03:38:10","slug":"indian-coal-magnate-gautam-adani-becomes-asias-richest-person-after-solar-energy-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41478","title":{"rendered":"Indian coal magnate Gautam Adani becomes Asia\u2019s richest person after solar energy drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite controversy over Queensland coal mine, the tycoon\u2019s investments in green energy at home have helped his wealth rise to $88.5bn<\/p>\n<p>The Indian coal mining tycoon Gautam Adani has become Asia\u2019s richest person thanks to a push into green energy that has boosted his fortune to $88.5bn.<\/p>\n<p>Adani has overtaken fellow countryman Mukesh Ambani to enter the top 10 of the world\u2019s richest people, according to figures from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/real-time-billionaires\/#7fa894933d78\">Forbes<\/a> and Bloomberg, after seeing his personal fortune rise by $12bn in the past year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/feb\/08\/indian-coal-magnate-gautam-adani-becomes-asias-richest-person-after-solar-energy-drive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite controversy over Queensland coal mine, the tycoon\u2019s investments in green energy at home have helped his wealth rise to $88.5bnThe Indian coal mining tycoon Gautam Adani has become Asia\u2019s richest person thanks to a push into green energy that ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,65,62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-environment","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41479,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41478\/revisions\/41479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}