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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ajit Niranjan Europe environment correspondent

Farmer’s house in danger from climate change, court told in RWE case

Saúl Luciano Lliuya arrives at the Higher Regional Court in Hamm
Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya first filed his climate lawsuit against the energy company RWE in 2015. Photograph: Rolf Vennenbernd/AP

A Peruvian farmer’s home is in “concrete danger” from climate change, a court has heard, in the resumption of a decade-long legal battle to get German coal giant RWE to contribute to flood defences in the Andes.

Lawyers for Saúl Luciano Lliuya, who say his home is threatened by rapidly melting glaciers, told the upper regional court in Hamm on Wednesday that the risk of extreme flooding represented a breach of civil law.

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