Our vision is of a Scotland where every person’s right to a healthy environment is respected, protected and fulfilled
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Data centres in the Scottish planning system would double Scotland’s energy demands – press release
In a letter to the Scottish Government, the environmental charities APRS and ERCS call for an urgent response to the threat data centres pose to Scotland’s energy security, energy prices and climate targets …
Webinar: Learning from international Environmental Human Rights Defenders
Join our free webinar for an evening of hearing and learning from international Environmental Human Rights Defenders supported by the University of Dundee Scottish Human Rights Fellowship …
Lunchtime 101: Air Pollution
Why is air pollution still a health risk in Scotland? And what can we do about it? Join us for a lunchtime webinar to hear how we can guarantee our right to clean air …
Advocacy Manifesto asks for 2026 elections
ERCS has published a summary of key policies that we are advocating for Scottish political parties to include in their manifestos at the 2026 Holyrood elections …
New campaign challenges politicians to clean up Scotland’s sewage – press release
A new national campaign to tackle sewage pollution in Scotland’s rivers and seas was launched on Saturday, supported by over 20 groups and organisations across civil society …
Disability-inclusive climate emergency planning
Together with Inclusion Scotland and the Sensing Climate Project, we are working to make climate emergency planning more disability-inclusive. Read a summary of the work so far …
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.
