Our vision is of a Scotland where every person’s right to a healthy environment is respected, protected and fulfilled
Latest news & updates
September newsletter
Check out our September newsletter. Read our latest news, ESS report and a win on transparent decision-making …
Scotland’s environmental watchdog needs a trip to the vet
Read ERCS’s report on our first 11 representations to Environmental Standards Scotland, and our legal director’s summary …
Win: Scottish Forestry to publish decisions about Environmental Impact Assessments
After ERCS identified a breach of law, Scottish Forestry’s decisions on forestry projects will be more transparent …
Dismay and concern after Scottish Government abandons flagship Human Rights Bill
The Programme for Government announced yesterday signals the Scottish Government’s abject failure to deliver on their promise of a Scottish Human Rights Bill including the right to a healthy environment …
Systemic failure to enforce engine idling ban is putting public health at risk – press release
Engine idling is banned in Scotland because it releases toxic exhaust fumes that are harmful to human health and the environment. Yet despite numerous reports of idling, there has been a systemic failure to enforce the ban at air pollution hotspots …
Lunchtime 101: Why Scotland needs a legal right to a healthy environment
What is the right to a healthy environment and what would legal environmental rights mean for Scotland? Watch our free lunchtime webinar …
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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