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ah. my british manager, welcome to the w news. asia residents of a tiny indonesian island are suing as switzerland based cement maker for its role in exacerbating climate change. the plaintiffs alleged the global emissions caused by wholesome, have contributed to sea level rise on their home party island. and they want the swiss farm to pay up and agree to cut the emissions. these roots hold the future for pottery island, as manya and her friends are planting mangroves. once mature the trees will serve as a natural barrier to see water erosion and reduce the risk of flux on the $42.00 hector island, which was just off the coast of jakarta. yeah, i don't wait until we sink safe,

perry island. that is their message and it's a message they have now go to court as money i want to for residence of perry island, who filed a lawsuit against cement, giant, wholesome, in switzerland, over its contribution to climate change. housing at the monument illicit that it was ada. ah wholesome. is one of the world's biggest contributor cecia to emissions causing climate change that impacts our island? i mean they start to have declined. the seasons are unpredictable to last. it at the sea level is rising. he and his m and must hold haul sim, responsible for these consequences of climate change. but of any kind of in this field where the women of the village or planting vegetables is one of the few left that has not been flooded by sea water. in recent years now they let wherever you go on the island, the struggle against the encroaching sea is obvious. many houses are flooded at high tide,

but i re put gentle one of the plaintiff is determined to stay or the li ok. since the constant flooding begun in 2019, it's been difficult to get clean water. we used to rely on this fresh water well, but now it's even unusable for dishwashing. my only focused them with a lot about the local environmental advocacy group while he which backs the islanders alongside of swiss and german and g o is optimistic regarding the lawsuit . a similar environmental case against shell in the netherlands has recently been one, but they are preparing for a legal battle that could rack on for years. now i can tell them that the whole ship won't go bankrupt. we only demand 3 things, mitigation adaptation and loss damage. and this means that we want to provide corrections to the existing production mode, not to bankrupt. it for islanders are suing for $14000.00 euros in last damages to be shared amongst them a comparatively small amount. but for fishermen, most

a fear in it would make a huge difference. saw the self suggest mr. america, what don't you know that they should be led by their conscience and take responsibility for what they've done. they reap so much in profit that they are blinded by someone. they don't see that we are bearing the brunt of a climate emergency. why don't you put them on a rapid reduction in the company's carbon emissions which the lawsuit demands could make a difference in the long run. the plaintiffs also demanding better flood defenses and more mangrove restoration. the fight against the sea and global injustice on power. it has just begun and we reached out to wholesome, got a response to our report. this is what the company said, and i caught climate protection has the highest priority for wholesome and is at

the center of our strategy. with this objective, we are pursuing a strict science based approach with our industries 1st validated net cedar goals, which conform with the 1.5 degrees celsius path. we do not believe that court cases focusing on individual companies are an effective mechanism for some mounting. the global complexity of climate change gentlemen are from zurich is nina bery. she's a lawyer for the aid organization. swiss church aide, hex, which is supporting the party ireland as in their lawsuit against holds him nina. wholesome does not have operations on potty island. how's have been responsible for climate change? impact on it? yes, exactly. awesome. does not have a relations in on very island, and it stopped also its operations in indonesia a few years ago. how i did it, not for the, the global problem off climate change. and also for the legal case, this is not required because emissions can be cause instead plans are to tina or

india and they all cause a process into monsieur that causes global warming and then lives. right. so the impact fell on perry, ireland, regardless of where the emissions are produced. and the hosting produces emissions such a big game in a lot of countries globally. but he has nothing in aneesha. you're talking about a big scale based on the study that hex, the group that you are a lawyer for. based on the study that hex commissioned. it claims that holds him responsible for point 42 percent of global fossil fuel and cement emissions. does that make it 100 percent responsible for the climate change impact on party island? no, it doesn't make it a 100 percent responsible because as you just mentioned, it's 1.542 percent. nearly half a percentage of all global industrial emissions since the beginning of

industrialization that hosting cost. but there are a lot of other producers and a lot of other contributing to global climate change. and then as he level rise, but then i'd have to paint if they also only ask for 0.42 percent of the damages. so they only asked for to share that can be attributed to the same because otherwise it wouldn't be fair. if the i didn't really want to damage for the damage to that, if they want the i'm sort of compensation for the damage that they're facing. as a result of climate change. wanted make more sense to go off the industries that are some of the worst polluters and the was polluters, the fossil fuel industries. and some of the top companies in that regard are china goal for example. so the go guys from this is based on the carbon disclosure project report would not make more sense to target those companies. as you mentioned, an article builder corporations responsible for

a high chair of global emissions. but all of them is one of the 50 companies that contributed most to climate change. and it's also part of the same as industry, the world biggest producer of demand. and these industries responsible every year for up to 8 percent of all global emissions. this is much more time since s a v, a in industry, and the fall time fuel and the energy companies. they have already been in the spotlight and they have already faced a number of that also globally. but the cement industry kind of that can be in line, and there should also be the spotlight on them. and that's why a plaintiff chose, and it holds him for a lot. and it also holds him. it has causes a lot of this emissions in their, their 1st scope. that means they really are caught in their productions where they have bad direct control about these emissions and also about reducing them. damages caused by a complex interplay of factors and is very many actors if you yourself admitted why

target just one company. well, theoretically the plane could target another company or a number of companies. but there is, i said, you choose the company that has the biggest impact or one of the biggest impact because they are one of the biggest pollutants. but on the other hand, there is also legal restrictions to who you can sue where you consume, if you can, for instance, find a mass claim or just individuals can, can also. so they are also legal restrictions on where such cases can be brought because it's the transnational case. and then of course, it's also in the end the strategic decision and how it's incurring since then that itself is the leader in the industry and it presents itself it's very green and private friendly. and it's not true and they've tried it. they are the target of this lawsuit. are you also in a way, questioning the principle of loss and damage?

the principle that was agreed in the cop $27.00 in egypt last year. and the principal, the believe was about group responsibility amongst developing again, amongst developed countries and them getting together and being into a fund for the developing nations. are you against that principle? is that principle? not working? no depend, ross damage is very, very important. and as you just mentioned, it was a big topic in the last couple of negotiations, but it's still not addressed in an adequate way. and there is still not enough funds, especially from countries from the global north, in the funds for damages in specifically in the global south. but this last actually brings that topic into the legal fear as well, because it addresses the issues that those who contribute to nearly nothing are left alone with the damages. and they have to pay for damages that they have not

contributed. and in the legal argument, the plane is really a hard, tim had to follow the stair shared, but common responsibility that is a principal from the parents agreement. and namely those who have contributed most . and actually they have the financial means. and the type technical means to reduce their emissions that they have to follow up with that you're also unsatisfied with ultimate current climate strategy. why they had to strive to have you mentioned, we also talk to them. we call them a range of questions. we always do that and engage with corporations. if we criticize them, they have answered this question. they have economic strategy, but the problem is they have reductions targets only per se meant tongue. they produce a ton of demand. but what happened? their production increased in the last years. and so overall the emissions went up and only in 2021. again,

the emissions they went up and this is just not in line with the limit of the parents agreement or the 1.5 degree limit. because we need absolute and drastic emission reductions. so it cannot, it's not enough if you only produce a little bit less, c o 2 per ton of them and you produce an overall how think has produced more than 7, billions of tons of seo tool. and it actually just externalize the cost to the public and to, and people in the global south, specifically the people on parent islands where to now pay for them. do you think that this case, no matter what the result is? we'll set a precedent in some ways, but yet in the 1st case of discount in land. so, so there will be these kind of questions the 1st time monitored and that will be a precedent. but if we look into need to fear we have for instance, or a case in the netherlands again, shell,

coord really decided that she had to reduce their emissions. and we haven't kind of similar or related case in a term court where the term court just traveled to peru to actually look at the impact of climate change. the will be there, it's a big movement of law. so it's on the way. and also these cases can inspire with churches on how they decide nobody relieve them. thank you so much for joining us today. i thank you. and that's it for today's program as over. be back tomorrow. at the same time, you're bent with every journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out. you've used them one day in the footsteps of the great people. i'm in your northernmost count. the

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