In brief After nearly 10 years of litigation, the Higher Regional Court of Hamm in Germany decided against Saúl Luciano Lliuya, the Peruvian farmer who – supported by the NGO Germanwatch – had sued the German energy company RWE AG for injunctive relief and damages. Allegedly, RWE’s carbon dioxide emissions had contributed to the global climate change and thereby contributed to the glacier melt in the Andes mountains where Lliuya’s property is located. The glacier…
The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) has ruled on a case brought against Switzerland by the Swiss association KlimaSeniorinnen on behalf of its members and four individual women of the association. More than 2,000 members of the association are elderly women (the majority over the age of 70) concerned about the consequences of global warming on their living conditions and health. The ECtHR found that Switzerland has violated Art. 8 of the European Convention on…