The outcome of the climate lawsuit will have global implications
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskIt was the farmer, Saúl Luciano Lliuya, who had brought them together. In 2015, Mr Luciano Lliuya teamed up with Germanwatch, a German green, Germany’s largest power company and Europe’s second-largest emitter, for belching nearly 7bn tonnes of greenhouse gases between 1854 and 2010. This, he says, has put his house at risk of a devastating flood. Last week’s expedition marked the first step of his claim.
In 1941 the second-most deadly such glacier-lake outburst flood on record submerged large parts of Huaraz when Lake Palcacocha burst through the natural dam that held it back. Between 1,800 and 4,000 people died. The lake now holds 34 times more water than it did before 1941—water that was previously solid ice. By destabilising the glaciers, climate change has also increased the risk of an avalanche or landslide big enough to trigger another flood.
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