nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/dc8259e2d73cd13f DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 251112s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/dc8259e2d73cd13f doi eng 342 23 Kahl, Verena Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-3722-3780 One Step Back and Two Steps Forward - The Significance of Lliuya’s Defeat for the Success of Future Climate Litigation across the South-North Axis Kahl, Verena Verfassungsblog 2025-11-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In May, after years of litigation, the Higher Regional Court of Hamm rendered its final decision in Lliuya v. RWE AG – a landmark case in which a Peruvian farmer sought to hold the German energy giant RWE financially responsible for measures protecting his property from a potential glacier flood. Although the Court rejected the claim in the end, the judgment has been celebrated as a “success without victory” due to the potential precedent effect in terms of corporate liability. The true significance of the Lliuya v. RWE decision lies not in its dismissal of the plaintiff’s claim, but in the court’s reasoning on extraterritoriality, causality, and preventive protection. CC BY-SA 4.0 Climate Crisis Human Rights Human Rights Bodies IACtHR ICJ Advisory Opinion Klima Klimakatastrophe Lliuya climate change litigation (DE-588)4031170-3 gnd Klima (DE-588)4234460-8 gnd Klimakatastrophe Costa, Ezio Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/lliuya-rwe/ raw object