Peruvian farmer takes on German coal giant to save his town from a melting glacier The case against a power company 7,000 miles away promises to reshape accountability for climate change
Saúl Luciano Lliuya’s case against a German energy company could lead to a raft of cases against polluters Credit: Angela Ponce Lake Palcacocha, Peru – Saúl Luciano Lliuya shudders as he looks up at the endless slabs of ice crushed haphazardly atop each other, towering majestically into the clouds. Clinging to the flanks of Mount Palcaraju, the glacier has, like most in the Peruvian Andes, been melting rapidly in recent years, its snout retreating further and further up the precipitous expanses of jagged granite. The influx of meltwater has led Palcacocha, a lake 5,000 feet…Read more …