PARI ISLAND: Sitting near a wall of stacked rocks, fisherman Mustagfirin looks out to sea from the tiny Indonesian island of Pari, wondering whether his home will exist for much longer. His battered wooden boat is anchored just offshore, where trees and statues that were once on the beach now sit partially
PARI ISLAND: Sitting near a wall of stacked rocks, fisherman Mustagfirin looks out to sea from the tiny Indonesian island of Pari, wondering whether his home will exist for much longer.
The island's residents are seeking justice, and last month sued Swiss cement giant Holcim over its emissions. The floods used to happen twice a year but now hit the island more than a dozen times annually, they say. Another is mother-of-three Asmania, who lost her seaweed farm to flooding and worries about her fisherman husband who trawls the sea in extreme weather for ever-smaller catches.
"We do not believe that court cases focused on single companies are an effective mechanism to tackle the global complexity of climate action," it said.
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