Via Yahoo:
A Peruvian farmer has filed a landmark lawsuit against German energy giant RWE, saying that the company’s fossil fuel emissions endanger his family, livelihood and hometown, a German NGO said Tuesday.
In what the pressure group Germanwatch called a first in Europe, RWE will face legal action by the plaintiff Saul Luciano Lliuya before the regional court in the western German city of Essen, where RWE is based.
The lawsuit argues that RWE “is partly responsible for glacial melting in the Andes and thus also for the danger to his house which lies at the foot of the mountains,” Germanwatch, which is advising Lliuya, said in a statement.