Saul Luciano Lliuya in front of Lake Palcacocha, located at 4,650 meters above sea level at the Huascaran National Park, in Huaraz, northeastern Peru, on May 23, 2022.

A court in Germany has rejected a lawsuit brought by a Peruvian farmer against German energy giant RWE in a long-awaited decision. Saúl Luciano Lliuya had argued that the firm's global emissions ...

Saul Luciano Lliuya, 45, lives in Huaraz, a city in Peru's central Ancash region, in the heart of the Peruvian Andes. It lies more than a mile below Palcacocha, a high altitude lake that is ...

Luciano Lliuya’s team appealed, and the case came before a three-judge panel in the upper state court of Hamm. Verheyen recalled sitting in the courtroom in November 2017, heart racing as she ...

TEGEL: We meet Saul Luciano Lliuya on his remote two-acre plot of land, where he lives with his wife, grows corn, wheat and potatoes and fishes for trout in the local streams.

In summer, Saul Luciano Lliuya grows corn, potatoes and quinoa. In winter, he takes tourists up to the icy heights of the ...

Saul Luciano Lliuya, who is pursuing a lawsuit against German energy utility RWE because of emissions he says have ...

Show more Show less Saul Luciano Lliuya claimed that electricity producer RWE should pay towards the cost of protecting his hometown of Huaraz Saul Luciano Lliuya first filed a lawsuit in 2015 at ...

Peruvian farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya and global energy giant RWE have finally begun a landmark legal case that can set a precedent on corporate climate accountability. Reuters detailed that oral ...

Saul Luciano Lliuya, a farmer from Peru, at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, on Nov. 14, 2017. Anthony Kwan—Getty Images.