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26 Jan 2018

RWE challenges court鈥檚 evidence order in lawsuit with Peruvian farmer

umwelt-energie-report.de

German utility RWE has contested a court鈥檚 evidence order from November 2017 which says that a consultant shall assess whether greenhouse gas emissions caused by the country鈥檚 largest coal user have contributed to the melting of a glacier in Peru, which now threatens the home of plaintiff Saul Luciano Lliuya, website  (U+E) writes. RWE told U+E in a letter that there were still  鈥渃onsiderable judicial doubts about the legitimacy, conclusiveness, and reasonable justification of the lawsuit backed by [NGO] Germanwatch and other interest groups鈥. The energy company argues that, according to German law, a single emitter could not be held accountable for 鈥済lobally effective processes like climate change鈥. Lliuya鈥檚 lawyer, Roda Verheyen, told U+E that the court will need to give its view by the beginning of March. The website writes that 鈥渢his gives the impression that RWE intends to protract the entire lawsuit鈥. Lliuya鈥檚 supporter Germanwatch estimates that the consultant鈥檚 report might take up to two years to finish.

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