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Our vision is of a Scotland where every person’s right to live in a healthy environment is fully realised

We need an enforceable human right to a healthy environment to hold public bodies and polluters to account

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Latest news & updates

16 March 2022

ERCS recruiting a Policy and Advocacy Officer (full-time or part-time)

Are you passionate about protecting the environment, and committed to advancing environmental rights? We’re recruiting a Policy and Advocacy Officer to secure concrete progress on environmental rights in Scotland. Our ideal candidate will have a strong background in advocacy or campaigning, and a good knowledge of environmental policy and law …

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3 March 2022

ERCS responds to the Scottish Government’s consultation on court fees

Read our response. We welcome the proposal to make all Aarhus Convention cases exempt from court fees. Our response sets out why this is important and how this could work in practice …

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9 February 2022

ERCS’s winter e-bulletin

Read our winter bulletin for an introduction to our new Rights Officer, an overview of our advice work and our advocacy highlights from 2021 …

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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 will do this through:

  • public education to increase awareness of legal rights – see our resources
  • advice to increase confidence in exercising our environmental human rights
  • 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.

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