Holcim have a boat in The Ocean Race, around the world with four crew in IMOCA 60s. They are currently leading. [See above video]
The race is a showpiece for action on the Climate Emergency. Holcim has entered to highlight its credentials as the most clean cement producer in the world. That is, with the lowest carbon dioxide emissions per tonne of cement.
And yet this is the company that Indonesian islanders plan to sue?
They would be better off seeking Holcim's help in building levees to replace the crude rock banks they have.
Poor people need infrastructure. They need iron, steel, cement, glass, carbon fibre wires. They don't need to sue these manufacturers no matter how virtuous it makes their Green proponents feel. For make no mistake: this is not their idea; it's come from Green whisperers telling them how wicked the cement companies, the steel companies, all these, are.
ADDED: I just discovered that the above link is to an article from August 2022. The print article I read is today. But search not found online. Both pretty much identical stories.
