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Our vision is of a Scotland where every person’s right to a healthy environment is respected, protected and fulfilled

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Still no progress on access to justice in Scotland as UN deadline looms – press release
16 November 2023

Still no progress on access to justice in Scotland as UN deadline looms – press release

Scottish Government actions to address the ‘prohibitive expense’ of taking environmental cases to court have been branded ‘truly woeful’ by campaigners …

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16 November 2023

New briefing: Investigation reveals why legal expenses regime needs reform

In October 2021, ERCS submitted a FOI request as part of an investigation into the impact of Protective Expenses Orders. The information disclosed reveals how the current system continues to act as a barrier to justice …

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Scottish Ministers pressed for details over pledge to fix climate law breach – press release
31 October 2023

Scottish Ministers pressed for details over pledge to fix climate law breach – press release

Scottish Ministers are currently refusing to produce the full climate impact assessment of the carbon emissions expected to be generated by their £26bn Infrastructure Investment …

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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.

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