RWE asked to pay for costs of protecting home lying in the floodpath of a glacial lake as its historical emissions are linked to glacial retreat in the Andes
A Peruvian farmer is demanding that a German energy company pay him compensation for its role in causing historical climate change which, he claims, leaves his home “acutely threatened” by a glacial lake which could burst its banks.
In an unprecedented legal claim in Europe, Saul Luciano Lliuya demands that RWE pay part of the costs for urgent protective measures as his home lies in the floodpath of the Palcacocha lake which is damming glacial melt-water upstream of his home in the town of Huaraz, in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca, or white mountain range.
from Environment | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1CniAbo
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