Unique climate lawsuit before the Higher Regional Court in Hamm – Saúl Luciano Lliuya demands corporate liability of coal company RWE for climate risks

14. March 2025

On 17.03.2025 and 19.03.2025, oral hearings will take place before the Hamm Higher Regional Court in the groundbreaking case brought by Peruvian farmer Saúl against the energy company RWE. These proceedings are the first to deal with possible liability issues of companies for their contribution to the climate crisis. Following the successful admission of the lawsuit to trial and the comprehensive gathering of evidence in the spring of 2022, the next significant stage in the proceedings will now follow. Weiterlesen

Colombia: Preventing the expulsion of FEDEPESAN members

3. March 2025

On February 15, 2024, the Colombian fishing and environmental association FEDEPESAN announced that its members would be forced to collectively move away from the areas they inhabit in the lakes and rivers around the city of Barrancabermeja. In recent years and also in the first two months of 2025, members of FEDEPESAN have been subjected to numerous harassments, threats, robberies, extortions and even assassination attempts by armed groups seeking control of the waters for their own benefit or retaliating against FEDEPESAN for denouncing possible cases of pollution and corruption. Amnesty International is calling on the Colombian police to ensure the safety of FEDEPESAN members and prevent their displacement. Weiterlesen

Colombia: Death threats against CREDHOS chairman

24. January 2025

On 30 November 2024 and again on 2 January 2025, the civil society organization CREDHOS publicly denounced assassination plans by the armed group EGC against its president Iván Madero. Civil society organizations working for human rights, land rights and environmental protection in the northern Colombian region of Magdalena Medio, including CREDHOS and FEDEPESAN, have been Weiterlesen

Plenty to go around: Mobilizing finance for climate justice

16. January 2025

On the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos and following the disastrous outcome of negotiations on a new climate finance target at COP29 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Baku, Azerbaijan in November 2024, this document explains how fair taxation and responsible financing can play a key role in raising a significant amount of finance that is urgently needed to address the climate crisis, particularly for lower-income countries. Rapid progress must be made in 2025 at the Fourth Financing for Development Forum and in the development of the binding UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation. Weiterlesen