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(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The melting of a glacier in the Peruvian Andes, which is raising the risk of flooding for about 120,000 nearby residents, is being caused by man-made global warming, scientists said on Thursday, providing new evidence for an ongoing climate lawsuit.
Peruvian farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya lives in the town of Huaraz below the Palcaraju glacier that is pushing the waters of Lake Palcacocha dangerously high. He sued German energy utility RWE in 2015 over its role in fuelling global warming.
Lliuya has argued that greenhouse gas emissions from RWE’s coal-fired power plants are partly to blame for melting the glacier, producing water that threatens to flood his home.