Climate Accountability and Asmania v. Holcim: Legal Implications and Future Pathways

About this Event

The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), the Global School of Sustainability, and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) are pleased to invite you to the webinar “Climate Accountability and Asmania et al. v. Holcim: Legal Implications and Future Pathways”.

This webinar will introduce the Asmania et al. v. Holcim case and highlight the main takeaways from the admissibility decision delivered by the Tribunal in December 2025. In this decision, a Swiss tribunal addressed many of the legal arguments of direct relevance to other pending and future climate cases, rejecting many of the legal defenses invoked by Holcim (like other polluters in other cases) to shield itself from accountability.

The webinar will place the case in the wider context of climate litigation and explain why the ruling matters beyond this single case, including what it could mean for current and future climate lawsuits in other countries.

The discussion will include contributions directly from the plaintiffs and legal experts working on climate accountability litigation, followed by a dedicated time for Q&A.

Among the confirmed speakers are:

• Asmania and Arif Pujianto – plaintiffs
• Nina Burri – Hilfswerk der Evangelisch-reformierten Kirche Schweiz (HEKS/EPER) 
• Noah Walker-Crawford – Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI)
• Nicole Ann Ponce – World Youth for Climate Justice
• Joyce Kimutai – Imperial College London
• Joie Chowdhury – Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)

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