Saul Luciano Lliuya in front of Lake Palcacocha, located at 4,650 meters above sea level at the Huascaran National Park, in Huaraz, northeastern Peru, on May 23, 2022.

A court in Germany has rejected a lawsuit brought by a Peruvian farmer against German energy giant RWE in a long-awaited decision. Saúl Luciano Lliuya had argued that the firm's global emissions ...

TEGEL: We meet Saul Luciano Lliuya on his remote two-acre plot of land, where he lives with his wife, grows corn, wheat and potatoes and fishes for trout in the local streams.

A German court ruled against a Peruvian farmer Wednesday in a landmark case that claimed global warming fueled by energy company RWE 's historical greenhouse gas emissions put his home at risk.

Show more Show less Saul Luciano Lliuya claimed that electricity producer RWE should pay towards the cost of protecting his hometown of Huaraz Saul Luciano Lliuya first filed a lawsuit in 2015 at ...

Farmer and mountain guide Saúl Luciano Lliuya claimed that Andean glaciers above his hometown of Huaraz, Peru, are melting, increasing the risk of catastrophic flooding to his home.

Show more Show less Saul Luciano Lliuya argues that electricity producer RWE must pay towards the cost of protecting his hometown Lliuya first filed a lawsuit in 2015 at a court in the western ...

For Lliuya, it is not a matter of if but when—and how bad the flood will be. He therefore embarked on his lawsuit against RWE with this simple premise: as one of the world's top greenhouse gas ...

The higher regional court in the western city of Hamm on Wednesday blocked the landmark complaint brought by Saul Luciano Lliuya, 44, who argued that RWE’s historical emissions meant it was ...