Our vision is of a Scotland where every person’s right to live in a healthy environment is fully realised.
Latest news & updates
Solicitor appointed for our advice work
We’re delighted to announce the appointment of our in-house solicitor Dr Ben Christman. Ben wrote the feasilibity study that helped to establish ERCS and has …
ERCS’s e-bulletin May 2021
The last two months have been busy! Read on for our latest news on election manifestos, our launch event and how to become a member.
Come to our launch!
We warmly invite you to our launch event with our guest speaker: the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, Professor David Boyd…
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.
Come to our launch!
We warmly invite you to our launch event with our guest speaker: the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, Professor David Boyd…
