A court in the German city of Hamm has dismissed a high-profile lawsuit brought by Peruvian farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya against energy giant RWE, ending a ten-year legal battle that sought to link one of Europe’s biggest emitters to climate change unfolding in the Andes.
Lliuya, a farmer and mountain guide from Huaraz, argued that RWE’s historic carbon emissions had contributed to the melting of nearby glaciers, raising the risk of deadly flooding from the swollen Lake Palcacocha above his home.
