Last week the first climate lawsuit in Germany was negotiated in Berlin. Although the complaint was rejected, the three farmers concerned and their lawyer speak of a partial success.
Two weeks before the trial Claus Blohm leaves his harvest. A coach parks in his yard, next to it boxes full of apples with brown spots. Young people in Greenpeace rain jackets line up around the fruit trees, which did not bear a single apple this year after last year's hot summer. Blohm wants to show the young people that climate change is not taking place somewhere in the world and not just in computer simulations - but here, in the Old Land near Hamburg, Germany's largest fruit-growing region, his homeland. Obstbauer Blohm is one of three farmers who were the first in Germany to go to court with a climate suit. Greenpeace approached him because his organic farm was threatened by climate change. (...)
Full article in German (WOZ 07-11-2019): Climate-crisis-fruit-farmer.pdf (407.53 kb)
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