Berlin court rejects Greenpeace climate lawsuit The plaintiffs and their lawyer react after a Berlin court threw out a case brought by three farmers against Chancellor Angela Merkel's government over its failure to meet climate protection targets, hyped by campaigners as the first such legal challenge in Germany. After the government admitted it would fail to meet its own and EU greenhouse gas reduction goals for 2020, the would-be plaintiffs -- farmers backed by environmental group Greenpeace -- had tried to sue to force corrective action. But judges found there was "no visible legal basis that would create an obligation for the federal government to act" if they heard the case. The original cabinet decisions to set the climate targets were not legally binding, they said, while EU commitments could be met in other ways like participating in the bloc-wide emissions trading scheme. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES