Our vision is of a Scotland where every person’s right to a healthy environment is respected, protected and fulfilled
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ERCS October newsletter
Read our October newsletter on our route map to securing environmental rights in Scotland …
UN body finds that Scotland fails to guarantee access to environmental justice – press release
The Scottish Government has failed to implement recommendations to guarantee access to justice to uphold environmental rights, according to a new UN report …
Restore Nature’s legal challenge to protect Todrig from Sitka spruce plantations
Restore Nature is taking a legal challenge against Scottish Forestry to protect nature and communities around Todrig from proposed Sitka spruce plantations …
Celebrating five years of ERCS
On 18 September, we gathered with 75 friends and colleagues to celebrate ERCS’s fifth birthday …
Advocacy Manifesto sets out route map to secure environmental rights
ERCS today launches our new Advocacy Manifesto, setting out a route map of how every person’s right to live in a healthy environment can be respected, protected, and fulfilled …
Snapshot of advice service – 500 enquiries
ERCS has now received 500 enquiries to our free legal advice service. Our snapshot summarises who, where and what environmental issues we have worked with …
Our aim
To support individuals and communities to use their environmental rights to protect the environment, tackle climate change, and improve local biodiversity and greenspaces for health and wellbeing.
We do this by:
- awareness-raising to increase confidence in using our environmental rights – see our resources
- advice to increase access to justice and holding public authorities and polluters to account
- advocacy in policy and law reform to improve environmental law – see our work
- public interest litigation to tackle ongoing environmental problems.
ERCS understands environmental law as including law relating to land-use planning, climate change, pollution control, environmental health, the conservation of biodiversity, and any other field (e.g. cultural heritage, transport and energy) to the extent that it impacts on the natural environment and/or the right to live in a healthy environment.
