The verdict released in Germany in May on the Luciano Lliuya v. RWE case established a powerful legal precedent that can be replicated in courts worldwide and will shape the trajectory for future ...

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 ...

Saul Luciano Lliuya is a Quechua-speaking farmer and mountain guide from Peru’s Ancash region. The 44-year-old believes that RWE, as one of the world’s top historic greenhouse gas emitters ...

In their case, Luciano Lliuya’s attorneys cited an analysis that found RWE’s mines and power stations were responsible for 0.47 percent of all emissions produced by people in the industrial era.

People pursuing legal action over climate change are increasingly finding their cases reach the world’s highest courts, the ...