“With the case of Lliuya v RWE AG, the question of the extent to which climate change and tort law are ‘compatible’ has also reached Germany. In the following, I want to take up this question – which I have recently examined in detail – and address it specifically with regard to private companies and current developments. For lack of a comprehensive environmental code in Germany, there is also no comprehensive liability system for environmental damage or even for damage caused by climate change. Therefore, the codified, rigid, general German tort law has to be applied …” (more)
[Philipp Semmelmayer, BACL, 3 June]
First posted 2022-06-03 12:00:32
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