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

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

New briefing highlights need for a Scottish Environment Court
24 May 2023

New briefing highlights need for a Scottish Environment Court

Today we are publishing a new briefing summarising arguments for a Scottish Environment Court, in anticipation of the Scottish Government’s consultation on access to justice …

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27 April 2023

Bathing water case update: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Last month, we submitted a formal complaint to Environmental Standards Scotland about the prohibitively high threshold for applicants seeking bathing water designation along Scotland’s beaches, lochs and rivers …

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Report launch: The clear and urgent case for a Scottish Environment Court 
21 March 2023

Report launch: The clear and urgent case for a Scottish Environment Court 

Today we are delighted to publish a new report, ‘The clear and urgent case for a Scottish Environment Court’, commissioned by ERCS and authored by Prof. Campbell Gemmell …

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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 of our environmental human 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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