{"id":141875,"date":"2025-05-29T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141875\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:50:08","slug":"peruvian-farmer-loses-high-profile-climate-case-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141875\/","title":{"rendered":"Peruvian farmer loses high-profile climate case in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While a top appeals court has rejected the farmer\u2019s climate change lawsuit against German energy goliath RWE, the court has set a potential precedent by holding that major polluters can, in principle, be held liable for the costs caused by their carbon emissions under German civil law.<\/p>\n<p>In an eagerly awaited ruling, the Higher Regional Court of Hamm yesterday (28 May) dismissed Peruvian farmer Sa\u00fal Luciano Lliuya\u2019s long-running case against German energy company RWE which accused the comp<br \/>\nCDR is now FREE<br \/>\nRegister for free access today!<br \/>\nSet up your free account and receive complimentary access to CDR\u2019s extensive coverage of litigation, alternative dispute resolution, class actions and regulation, plus all the latest news from the world\u2019s biggest and best law firms.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdr-news.com\/my-account\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Create FREE account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already registered?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdr-news.com\/my-account\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While a top appeals court has rejected the farmer\u2019s climate change lawsuit against German energy goliath RWE, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[24825,2311,61373,2000,299,37806,61374,61375,61376,1824,61377,61378,61379,46201,61380,61381,61382,25061,61383],"class_list":{"0":"post-141875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-carbon-emissions","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-district-court-of-essen","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-flooding","14":"tag-german-civil-code","15":"tag-german-civil-law","16":"tag-germanwatch","17":"tag-germany","18":"tag-higher-regional-court-of-hamm","19":"tag-huaraz","20":"tag-mountain-glaciers","21":"tag-peru","22":"tag-peruvian-farmer","23":"tag-polluters","24":"tag-rechtsanwalte-gunther-partnerschaft","25":"tag-rwe","26":"tag-saul-luciano-lliuya"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}