{"id":4878,"date":"2025-12-31T12:56:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4878"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:56:49","slug":"swiss-court-to-hear-indonesian-islanders-climate-case-against-cement-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/12\/31\/swiss-court-to-hear-indonesian-islanders-climate-case-against-cement-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss court to hear Indonesian islanders\u2019 climate case against cement giant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Swiss court has agreed to hear a landmark climate lawsuit against cement giant Holcim brought by four Indonesian islanders. The plaintiffs are seeking compensation for flood damages and a reduction in emissions, citing the company&#8217;s significant historical contribution to global warming. This case marks the first time a Swiss court has admitted climate litigation against a big corporation. While Holcim plans to appeal, the case is a major milestone for &#8220;loss and damage&#8221; claims from the Global South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: December 22, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/22\/swiss-court-to-hear-indonesian-islanders-climate-case-against-cement-giant\">aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Swiss court has agreed to hear a landmark climate lawsuit against cement giant Holcim brought by four Indonesian islanders. The plaintiffs are seeking compensation for flood damages and a reduction in emissions, citing the company&#8217;s significant historical contribution to global warming. This case marks the first time a Swiss court has admitted climate litigation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":4881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4883,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions\/4883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}