Climate demo to take place on 14 November

The organisers of the Climate Strike Zug want to hold the big corporations accountable.

"The Zug Chamber of Commerce investigated the CO₂ emissions in Zug In July. The analysis has shown that traffic and heating are the biggest factors here, and also form the greatest lever. But this once again shows the lack of understanding of the extent of the climate crisis," write the Climate Strike Zug organisers in a media release.

The Climate Strike Zug association is therefore organising a "national climate justice demonstration" at 2 p.m. on 14 November, and claim that Zug-based companies are responsible for about 1.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

"The climate crisis was primarily caused in the countries of the Global North, but the countries in the Global South are suffering earlier and more from the consequences of this crisis." Countries such as Switzerland have been shifting the production of goods abroad and, in addition, the countries of the Global North have also been shifting their responsibility through the use of CO₂ compensation, instead of consistently reducing domestic emissions.

"Symbolic of a failed climate policy"
"These environmentally destructive and inhumane structures are ultimately an expression of our neo-colonialist and profit-oriented system, with its compulsion for continual growth," says Erich Schmidiger from Baar in the statement.

The study by the Zug Chamber of Commerce indicated that the areas with the greatest potential for CO₂ reduction were in traffic and domestic heating. "At the same time, however, large corporations such as Glencore, Nordstream, Holcim and BHP Billiton, all of which have their headquarters in Zug, were not even included in the study," writes the Zug-based Climate Strike group. Even though the problems of traffic and heating have to be tackled, the fact that the contributions of the large corporations to the problem has been ignored is "symbolic of a failed climate policy". The climate crisis is already clearly noticeable – and its effects are stronger in the Global South than in the Global North. "Climate-friendly action cannot wait any longer!" demands Nina Abächerli from Menzingen.