A German court ruled Thursday that it would hear a Peruvian farmer's case against energy giant RWE over climate change in the Andes.

Saul Luciano Lliuya's case against RWE, demanding the firm pay a share of the cost of flood defences for his home threatened by melting glaciers, was "well founded", judges at the superior regional court in the northwestern city of Hamm found.

Source: AFP