A Peruvian farmer
might be the first in an international trend as the world’s climate continues
to change.
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| Palacacocha Lake - climate change could cause it to flood and a farmer seeks compensation. |
The 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.
The Guardian story
- “Peruvian farmer demands climate compensation from German company” – tells of
an unprecedented legal claim in Europe, in which 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.
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