Our vision is of a Scotland where every person’s right to live in a healthy environment is fully realised.
Latest news & updates
Scottish legal system failing environment due to high costs – press release
Draft findings from a UN body published today show that Scotland’s legal system is in breach of international environmental and human rights law, due to the extremely high costs of legal action…
SEPA, cyber attacks and Scotland unprotected?
ERCS trustee, and former CEO of SEPA, reflects on the questions raised by SEPA’s cyber attack. How do our regulators regulate their internal systems, and what additional checks and balances are needed for effective environmental protection …
Our launch – thank you for your support!
A big thanks to everyone who made our launch so successful on Thursday 3rd June. We had over 260 people registering their interest for the event and over 150 people join us on the day. Here are the links to the films…
Our aim
To support individuals and communities to use their rights to protect the environment, tackle climate change, and improve local biodiversity and greenspaces for health and wellbeing.
We will do this through:
- public education to increase awareness of legal rights – see our resources
- advice to increase confidence in participating in environmental decision-making
- advocacy in policy and law reform to improve environmental law – see our work
- public interest litigation to enforce progress on key 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 in Scotland.
