"Investors face a choice." Legal battle between farmer and energy giant could have global implications: 'A strong precedent' ...

A farmer from Peru is taking Germany's biggest energy company to court over the climate crisis from Canary on 30 March 2025 ...

Saul Luciano Lliuya has sought compensation for the retreat of glaciers close to where he lives that risks wiping out his ...

Saul Luciano Lliuya grows corn, potatoes and quinoa. In winter, he takes tourists up to the icy heights of the Peruvian Andes.   Now the farmer from the mountain village of Huaraz is in the global ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Water from the melting ice often drains into depressions once occupied by the glacier, ...

On Monday, March 17, a hearing began at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm in Germany regarding the lawsuit filed by Peruvian ...

“Because of the climate crisis in Huaraz, the mountains, the glaciers are melting ... I am here to ask for climate justice,” Lliuya said ahead of the hearing as activists cheered in the backgroun ...

In western Germany, a case against energy company RWE could set a worldwide precedent for corporate responsibility and climate damages. What exactly is at stake?

Peruvian farmer Luciano Lliuya arrives at the Higher Regional Court in Hamm, Germany, for a first hearing of his climate damages case against the German energy company RWE for its carbon emissions, ...

Saúl Luciano Lliuya’s lawsuit against RWE argues that the company’s historical greenhouse gas emissions have fueled global warming, accelerating glacial melt above his hometown of Huaraz ...

Saul Lliuya claims the melting glaciers are causing the water levels in Lake Palca-cocha to rise so high they’re creating a flood risk to the nearby town of Huaraz. He’s suing RWE for 17,000 ...

"Because of the climate crisis in Huaraz, the mountains, the glaciers are melting ... I am here to ask for climate justice," ...