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 Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-3722-3780 Costa, Ezio Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-11-12 eng
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 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 Kahl, Verena Climate Crisis Human Rights Human Rights Bodies IACtHR ICJ Advisory Opinion Klima Klimakatastrophe Lliuya climate change litigation Klima Klimakatastrophe 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/lliuya-rwe/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/dc8259e2d73cd13f 251112 10.59704/dc8259e2d73cd13f Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)