Pakistan, Jan. 20 -- Several farmers from Pakistan have filed a lawsuit against RWE and Heidelberg Materials at the Heidelberg Regional Court. This is according to a press release from the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), an NGO supporting the lawsuit.The plaintiffs are claiming damages for the effects of severe flooding in Pakistan in the summer of 2022.The background to their lawsuit is the allegation that RWE, as one of Germany's largest energy producers, has contributed significantly to climate change through CO2emissions and thus to the intensity and frequency of such extreme weather events.RWE's legal assessment of climate lawsuits such as this one is well known: Civil liability of German companies for glob...