Pakistan farmers in long fight to make German firms pay for flood damage
The farmers say emissions from the two German firms helped drive flood losses that killed 1,700 people and affected 30 million Pakistanis.
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Pakistan farmers take German firms to court to pay for flood damage
German energy giant RWE and cement company Heidelberg Materials operate far from Pakistan, but farmers affected by a devastating flood there in 2022 say they should pay for their harmful impacts on the global climate.
Pakistan: Farmers in long fight to make German firms pay for flood damage
Farmers from Sindh province who were devastated by flooding in 2022 are suing German energy firm RWE and cement maker Heidelberg Materials in a bid to make big polluters pay damages.
The 2022 devastating flooding farmers from Pakistan's Sindh province sued German industrial giants RWE and Heidelberg Materials for damages from climate change.A 43-year-old farmer Abdul Hafiz Hoso claimed that the emissions of these plants had contributed to global warming and increased the heavy rains that destroyed their villages, wrote SCMP. "They spread pollution: there are no boundaries in the sky, it can affect any place." He said that 43…
‘No borders in sky’: Pakistani farmers sue German firms for flood damage
In a Pakistani village nestled in rice fields, Abdul Hafeez Khoso remembers the vast industrial zones he saw in Germany when he visited to file a pioneering climate legal case. “They’re spreading pollution: up in the sky there are no borders, it can affect anywhere,” the 43-year-old said, describing areas far larger than his village of 800 people. “This is a problem for the whole world – that is why it should be resolved at the global level.” Kh…
Pakistan farmers in long fight to make German firms pay for flood damage
"They're spreading pollution: up in the sky there are no borders, it can affect anywhere," the 43-year-old said, describing areas far larger than his village of 800 people. "This is a problem for the whole world -- that is why it should be resolved at the global level." Khoso and 38 other farmers from Pakistan's southern Sindh province who were devastated by "apocalyptic" flooding in 2022 are suing German energy firm RWE and cement maker Heidelb…
In a Pakistani village nestled among rice fields, Abdul Hafeez Khoso recalls the vast industrial zones in Germany he visited during a trip to file a major environmental lawsuit. Abdul Hafeez, 43, described the areas as vaster than his village of 800 people, saying: “They are polluting. The sky has no boundaries, it can affect anywhere. This is a global problem, so it must be solved globally.” Khoso Abdul Hafeez and 38 other farmers from Pakistan…
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