German Court rejects the iconic case of the climate of Peruan Farmer

A court in Germany rejected the lawsuit initiated by Peruvian farmers against the German energy giant RWE in a long -awaited decision.

Saul Lucian Lliya claimed that the firm’s global emissions contributed to the melting of the glaciers in Peru – threatening the hometown of Huo -flood.

He sought a compensation of 17,000 euros (14 250 pounds) – the money he said he would pay for a flood protection project to protect the city.

However, the Supreme Regional Court in the German city of Ham on Wednesday blocked the case further and turned off any appeals, putting the end of the 10-year legal battle Mr. Lliuya.

RWE stated that Peru did not act in Peru and asked why he had been nominated.

He also pointed to his plans to stop coal and will become carbon neutral by 2040.

In his ruling on Wednesday, the judge thought that the risk of flooding for his own Mr. Lliuya was not high enough to continue.

However, in which climate change groups greeted as a victory, they said that energy companies could be responsible for the costs caused by carbon emissions.

While the amount demanded by Mr. -n Lliuya was very low, the case was the cause of a celebrity for climate change activists, which hope that he will establish a precedent for holding powerful firms.

The 44-year-old mountain guide and the farmer stated that they had started the case because they saw firsthand as a fever that causes the glaciers near the Huo.

He said that as a result of Lake Polkakocha – which is above the city – now four times more water than in 2003, and that residents, as it were at risk of flooding, especially when the blocks of ice invaded the glacier and fall into the lake, causing it to overfill.

He claimed that the emissions caused by RWE contributed to the fever in the Mountain Region of Peru and demanded that a German firm pay for the construction of the flood.

Mr -n lliuya also said he had chosen the campaign because in the 2013 database, the tracking of historical emissions from large fossil fuel producers listed the German energy giant one of the largest pollutants in Europe.

The initial case of Mr. Lliuya was rejected by the lower court in Germany in 2015, and the judges claimed that one firm could not be responsible for climate change.

But in the unexpected turn, Mr. Lliuya won his appeal with the judges in the Supreme Regional Court, which accepted that there was a merit and allowed it to continue.

Earlier, his lawyers claimed that RWE was responsible for 0.5% of the CO2 global emissions and demanded that the energy firm’s loss of a proportional share of the cost of building a $ 3.5 million.

Germany, an environmental non -governmental organization that supported the case of Mr. Liui, said the court ruling, saying that “created legal history”.

“Although the court rejected a specific claim – finding the risk of flooding for the Luciani Luci home, it was not high enough – it first confirmed that large emitters may be responsible for civil legislation on German legislation for the risks that result in climate change,” the statement said.

The group said it hoped that the decision could have a positive effect on such cases in other countries.