Overview

• Judges in Zug held a three-hour hearing on whether to admit the complaint, with a ruling yet to be announced.
• Four residents of Pari Island seek 3,600 Swiss francs each plus funding for measures such as mangrove planting and breakwater barriers.
• The plaintiffs also ask the company to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent by 2030 and 69 percent by 2040.
• Holcim says it is committed to net zero by 2050 and argues that decisions on CO2 allowances belong to legislators, not civil courts.
• Campaigners cite cement’s share of roughly 8 percent of global CO2 and estimate Holcim’s historical contribution at 0.42 percent, as the islanders report land loss and worsening saltwater floods in a case described as a first of its kind in Switzerland.