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German Court Confirms Civil Liability for Corporate Climate Harms
Friday May 30, 2025. 07:41 PM , from Slashdot
![]() Filed in 2015, the case against German energy giant RWE AG challenged the corporation to pay for its proportional share of adaptation costs needed to protect the Andean city of Huaraz, Peru, from a flood from a glacial lake exacerbated by global warming. RWE AG, one of Europe's largest emitters, is estimated to be responsible for approximately 0.47% of global historical global greenhouse gas emissions. 'This groundbreaking ruling confirms that corporate emitters can no longer hide behind borders, politics, or scale to escape responsibility,' said Lotte Leicht, Advocacy Director at Climate Rights International. 'The court's message is clear: major carbon polluters can be held legally responsible for their role in driving the climate crisis and the resulting human rights and economic harms. If the reasoning of this decision is adopted by other courts, it could lay the foundation for ending the era of impunity for fossil fuel giants and other big greenhouse gas emitters.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/30/1741255/german-court-confirms-civil-liability-for-corporate...
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