and said that it was essential to prevent russia from winning to war and nothing to t rolled out close up is next. looking at one peruvian farmers battle against a german energy giant. saved with us if you can the to be use do for fun. via do gravitational waves squeeze. i thought how do i the drums for the to the feet and what's the perfect kid for plus sign sign the on says get with dw signs on the picked up channels. the

your am pacific, i mean the end of this month, i know i've been coming up to the mountain since i was 8 or 10 years old. who said minus to be i'm a, i used to take care of the cows up here with my sisters. can kaitlin kaitlin, okay, but at this gorge looked very different back then at the there were more as a waterfall, says god, and a lot more life in general to must be the, the way to see. i know the we a is a casual farmer and mountain guide in the quartier of drunken mountains and cover the homeless liaison. here we are now, but this is lake. talk a quote, you 4550 meters above sea level of some good. so but the,

the low, he could catch what we catch while i believe so said we're an integral part of nature and then the to the next one to stay. and then one up here is where i drain unit. i can feel that the mountain is trying to tell me, so do they feed oliver? maybe it's spirits or energy, so i don't know so, but you can feel that something is here in is not the case out of the lake. talk a coach of the kitch was say, the lake is filled with tears from the 2 glaciers from the water that melts from the pal. correct? you won the left foot, run, run on the right. so 30 that isn't declared authority. say there's a major threat to be as close to an avalanche could be triggered in the upper part

of the globe, shot the little glass you have. if a large block of vice would break off look and fall into the lake, it would result in a kind of so non and you know, yes the approval cutty own. uh well yeah. and that of a lunch with him was bit as you can see, it's getting worse every month. because every year the glacier retreats further disappearing before our very eyes and it is so lucky. but our community here is not to blame that it's painful. something has to be done since it did the 3 step tests as it did get dennis k, i said, i don't know if that's why i've decided to hold those who are actually responsible for the melting of the glacier. assume to account to the systems of this continental and go further with this. clearly i feel it all began about 9 years ago on the banks of this lake,

german climate experts came to assess the damage. and so i had guided the one man in particular would change. so we'll slice kristof buys policy director of the german environmental organization, drummond watch. together they began setting their sites on one of the big international emitters of greenhouse gases, the 11000 kilometers away from popular culture in western germany is a huge surface mine called got spinal to it covers more than 40 square kilometers and is 400 meters deep league night is mind here. the most polluting form of coal there is it's burned and power plants to generate electricity.

r w e is among the largest producers of c o. 2 emissions in europe. does he up? is this a, mens a this vast pit where league night is being mind? pound quote is operated by energy giant r w e b is that is the basis for the great amount of emissions that are w e releases feed and m is the one in the, in just a single company like r w e has produced more emissions than the entire country of peru gives us, that's because i'm salon and yet peru is now much more severely affected by the climate crisis than germany, for example, of somebody to torture on sunday. and that's why i thought, well, has chosen precisely this company with these as your biggest emitter, to take responsibility within the past. and because of that, and that's what i was fighting for in court. so i always felt, at least to us to kim, the

cell was not yet familiar with the gods by that to mine. when he and kristof came up with the idea of suing r, w e in germany with funding from german watch the backend route, we joined, made a celebrations in for russ this and the and city is where. so grew up. it lies 25 kilometers as the crow flies from poker. katya flores has experienced several natural disasters, including a massive base quake and 1970, which kills more than 20000 people in the city. but few are aware of the threat to

looming right now. up in the mountains. one exception is peruvian glass. she ologist says our portal guerrero. wonder stance the dangers all too well of the people that you can see all of the water under the weather. he lives in for us to monitor the grey shirts. last week of the news this on that give, this is the best vantage going to observe a large part of the card yet. blanca maintenance activity level, digital blank is our jew to global warming. that means over the last, last years at the cord, yetta have already had drunk by 45 to 50 percent said go, why didn't they seem guessing wind up? what's the quote just those 4 legal talk a co chuck is lies at the end of that gorge. they're losing the lot or like if a major avalanche were to cause it to burst as defense, as i said, i mean

a weak good for them. that's 20 to 30 meters high medium. it would easily overcome any natural obstacle own legal. it would have fluid on the garbage and form a huge river reaching the time and in about half an hour, mean or less than that on the way. maybe i would sweep up rocks, earth trees, and by the time it reached the city, it will be 8 to 10 meters high, who will destroy everything and it's past is video and use that. but it would be a tragedy to ideas, met true catastrophe, and thought is hook ups idea on this, this to show more again that, that i hear you will not get best of it. the man, the and in fact it's happened before. back in 1941. according to some estimates, 2000 people were killed here. the

rare photos from that time show how one 3rd of the city was destroyed. one 3rd of the population was killed. for us was home to just a fraction of the 150000 residents. it has today this folder was washed right into the city, testifying to the sheer power of the river. this one lies right in the central f for us and serves as a memorial to the victims of the disaster of the we've arranged to meet. so here in the, near the path to his family home hugs the kill chi river, which crosses the city from lake talk. i caught you if the lake for the burst, it's bangs, it would flood this area. it's known to be

a danger zone in siri. no. one is allowed to move closer than 50 meters from the river bank. but when souls parents like many other poor farmers, came here looking for work in the 1980s they built wherever they could. like in wave of florida. this area is a specially at risk it this a because my house just made it, i don't, my parents gave it to me, and my son and my nephews live here is, let's go up to the 2nd floor. it is. the piece is the casa in this house, is that the center of my legal case in germany? sentato because we're stating that this property is in danger. i believe you see if the waves swept through here it would endanger my house, my son, my nephews, and also my neighbors. busted. the 50000 people would be affected because they live

in the floods patio. betsy knows so many innocent people would die. that means, but it's on us could be and those people who are not responsible for climate change it in the, you know, center, most of the responsibilities didn't come here pretty much the . so we'll have to forego at least argument to you. so it was argument in court from which incidentally, the court has accepted the bundling goodness is that climate change has of orange, the global neighborhood. by the images there wouldn't be a fight because the emissions that are released here effect the atmosphere just as much as they do in peru or elsewhere in the world. yeah. they've had no damage to that then raises the temperatures and ramps of the risk. yeah. and that's why he's doing our w, we'll you get a digging out of the, in the context of this global neighborhood to buy enough. but it would be like

throwing mode over your neighbors fence and destroying their house and the process on the afternoons and how successful it opened up in the same way through the ends and the um, these are facing existential pressure and then get bearden and then and then their living conditions are under threat existence. you stop by on that. so he seeking to obtain a certain amount of protection from our w e and the baby law and give you some foot fun of the, the by of the, of the in the northern german city of hamburg lie the headquarters of the attorney representing so german watch shows the big name to fight the case who does a high and she's already won a number of high profile climate just as cases, including against the german government. this time she's defending david against go by us. i have a photo of so here i haven't seen him for

a year. we were there last may. there he is at the glazed. feel like i'm to my glass see a picture. the hold of the high in is burden knowing she is fighting for the future of children and generations to come. even though our w. e has no operations in peru, german lock and still be applied the thoughts in germany. it's and couldn't paragraph 1004. it says this someone's behavior is disturbing me my legal position or my prophecy. then that disruption has to stop. in this case, the disruption is r o w s. historical emissions, which are ongoing and stopping that disruption in this case would be the prevention of the glass cl like boosting it's banks, because that's the problem. and in this case, they don't have to be direct snape. is it sufficient that the disruption is

suspecting so is property in some way, even in directly. even if i can find some items are the pivotal moment came in 2017. when so it will travel to the courthouse and the german city of hon. the media were waiting, the court was to decide whether so was case was admissible. odessa high in was at his side when the ruling came back, said yes, the case is admissible. it was their 1st victory in coming noise. we still have a long way to go, but this is the 1st step in the middle spot, since there's still a lot to do. but when we achieve the final victory, as i notice, while that that'd be of a sense the next step followed in 2022. in february.

legal and climate experts arrive to collect evidence supported by would have the highest people who are effective by climate change should not stand without rights . and that's what i'm concerned with that many people think that they send without rights. and as a, as a lawyer, i want to say no, you're not without rice. the group of german experts made their way to like poke a culture some where they are on behalf of the court or are w e. others from self defense team. their job was to assess the extent to which the city of, for us is actually at risk. the 1st of all. okay. what's your level? okay. i think gotta this isn't working out to you yet. well, i'm checking

a lot. no, no. the edwin quote, yvonne is an environmental engineer and works for the regional government. the with this one is closed, the water is flowing there. depending on the water level, the siphons can be open or closed, or people will say it out of what the, the for the system also includes a 7 meter dike or light. it was all set up in the 1970s. it's designed to prevent the lake from over flowing through the glasses will be noticed, you're not by the regional government to install the system to drain the leak using these 10 pipe possessed 80 c. i used to allow this is to prevent the dice from giving way. if the water level gets too high, these, the water can be site. and also if necessary for know they need the games to maintain a certain level and they've heard any overflow diving the valley. on the other side, what was said by this got to number one. basically the question is,

how can we adapt to know? so that's what we all want to know. what was the name of springfield, minnesota, and we've installed an early warning system, the 2nd with sensors and the sort of the are still on say not in the case of an emergency. this antenna would receive a signal from lake poke a coach. i saw the boss unit in that case what they said that they were back in choir russ. disaster management officials are constantly monitoring the lake. this is a system of your laptop and this is our side, early warning system on. on the nimble here you can see a real time video of the glacial lake public. i caught you on the call so we can keep an eye on a to read. accommodate you will see i can move in meaningful is this in here?

we record to lower occurrence when we meet the new recall. yep. us and here we monitor the water level and not the new building that will hold on. let me introduce you to our team. so non, how possible they are on duty around the clock or the, the, the, the, the nimble. so i got, i'll send you the, the always on today. she monitors the lake and intervenes in emergencies that look at the most of us that extend the aim is to detect whether the lake is in danger of overflowing. if so, we use this device to trigger sirens to warn everyone i want to say. let's see dana cadillac and there are 10 sirens that strategic locations and critical areas. i mean, this one has to be because this activates a rapid response to limit damages to them and they use the previous emails that the

while alverado keeps watch life and 4 runs, continues. the ever present threat is easily forgotten. but one man is always thinking about it. play she ologist say sorry for to korea wrote he thinks the existing dike won't hold up for much longer than the most in this plan ethically see a league, we can see the current siphons in black, los as well as condo, but they are not enough. is done this, they can only lower the water level by about 2 meters to fill them in the background for our project and visions construct tina canal to lower the water

level by 20 meters per year uninstalling, a 25 minutes or dyke. the back end though they, they made the left side with the current, they just changed the grid. there's just 7 meters. they have to feel good in just a moment. and these are the bulk of co chunk it's, it needs to be at least 25 meters high coaches. that is the solution. the single mental field is a level of the field ship disaster strikes. the estimated damages would be $170000000.00 euros. the construction project would cost around $20000000.00, but it was never implemented. stand and look at things that, that mean goes into there is a bundled ability factor here that plays a major role isn't and that's covered to, you know, kind of just expect people to move somewhere else. you buy your own sale. so you have to reduce the threat instead, and then i guess it is, i have to see the pending. that should be done for at least $35.00. please feel legs using the quarter. you had a blank, a portable mendelson thing, the single level, nothing like what did i, blank, sol wants r, w e to contribute to the cost. studies show the company has produced about 0.5

percent of global c o 2 emissions. since the industrial age sell ones are w e to pay 0.5 percent of the cost of making lake park a contract safe with r w ease annual net income of 3300000000 euros. that itself shouldn't be a problem. so don't hesitate to that face value, that means that the case is worth about 20000 euros. that's the cost we're looking at that could increase, but that much is definite. but in reality, the case has fall, gracious significance, which w e is of course well aware of. because if the gym and costs establishes that assume can be comfortable for climate change in this form. that would pay the way so many affected policies to bring for the claims. maybe in other countries to it would set a precedent to die. i have a son and his will not accept the dentist who are w e was not willing to speak to us on camera, but sent us the statement by

e mail. we have always been operating our plans and compliance with governmental permits. these permits include our c, o, 2 emissions according to law, individual emitters are not liable for universally routed and globally effective processes like climate change. a w a stance would mean that because many a responsible no one is responsible and that's just wrong from a legal standpoint. the we visit, so in the small village of lupo, about 20 minutes outside the city. the

only thing, check it out. this is my plot of land. when a, you'll plant the mice. i grow corn, potatoes, and one of my big. we also breed cows cheap and guinea pig glass with that's what my family and i lived from 10 to the left amelia, the

cells wife. lydia prepares dinner of with the produce from their small farm. it's just a whole bunch of people on that. yeah. so of legal action up ended their family's life. lydia was very unhappy when it all started for the people said, all sorts of things, but a sold and so they know they said sell wanted to sell the lake to build houses with the money in the loan, costing gus us. me decent. i left serious and i shouted at him whole later and asked him why he was doing all the. but it

keep better, keeps mitzi, there is a school so i don't know neither, but now i don't care for me when the i've toughened up because i know that everything he's doing is exactly right little by little. i've come to understand it . look, we on the intended me the right thing. see, pm is the at 1st the cameras and all that made me uncomfortable and he was always away. but later i felt proud of him. my cell is not alone and this fight back in germany. young climate activists put the gods file of mine at the center of their battle against fossil fuels. swedish activist credit tuned berg also joined demonstrations against r w. ease plans to expand the mind.

germany plans to face out cool by 2030 but says it could be pushed back to 2033 if needed. but scientists say another decade of coal will notify the goals such by the parents agreement to limit global warming to 2 degrees above pre industrial levels . been that we're getting these and if so, wins against this energy giant. so that would send a very important signal that the days of our w, we use business model are coming to an end and soon and stop by in one spot on this north. and that signal would go out not just a r w, we admitted, but to all major emitters that extract coal, natural gas or oil from the ground and sell it for fuel on so for, and if we want to survive together on this planet, it's a model that we need to end as soon as possible this concept from what that is. so by 2 motors, pay for

these empty pool activists fighting against r w e. so is a hero is with a so again, as i'd like to tell, so in other words, i'm a very grateful mind how i move by as commitment to the cause. i really hope you wins the all for the sake of him with his case, he can prove that we are all deliberately connected. the environment belongs to all of us. aboard is the basis of all our lives. as soon as i leaving school in latin on this thing next and so i'd like to see thank you. so for your commitment of law . thank. thank you for your strength and your courage and sign. your fight inspires us to continue here on the ground. so together we can dismantle this fossil fuel system to flag the

when the demand 7 years since the case got underway and all the while the ice continues to mount the disclosure to see a 2 or 4 kids. yes, i've made a little bit of difference. so i need like a grain of sand in the gears most, but i thought it was some more, at least i've tried to do better, but it's not enough noise. so fits into the the case of so well versus r w e is still ongoing. the german court could reach your building in 2024. the

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