Landmark cases in 2024 and 2025 have reinforced the importance of legal pathways in helping or hindering climate action.

Experts say German court’s ruling that major corporate polluters can be held responsible for emissions has opened a new era ...

As for the widely followed, decade-old case of farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya, who claimed that emissions from coal giant RWE contributed to the melting of Andean glaciers and to a higher flood risk for ...

Farmer vs. coal giant. Lliuya lives in Huaraz, a city in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes. He and the 120,000 residents of this city live in constant danger.

For Lliuya, it is not a matter of if but when—and how bad the flood will be. He therefore embarked on his lawsuit against RWE with this simple premise: as one of the world's top greenhouse gas ...

The ruling supported arguments made by Saul Luciano Lliuya, who claimed that RWE, a global energy company headquartered in Germany, should pay towards the cost of protecting his hometown of Huaraz ...

Farmer and mountain guide Saúl Luciano Lliuya claimed that Andean glaciers above his hometown of Huaraz, Peru, are melting, increasing the risk of catastrophic flooding to his home.

Plusieurs décisions de justice ont marqué un tournant ces dernières semaines pour la préservation de la planète.