Our vision is of a Scotland where every person’s right to live in a healthy environment is fully realised.
Latest news & updates
ERCS, Friends of the Earth Scotland and RSPB Scotland PR: UN Body to Declare Scottish Legal System Breaking International Environmental and Human Rights Law
A UN body will confirm today that Scotland’s legal system is breaking international environmental and human rights law, due to the extremely high costs of legal action…
What changes could help Scotland comply with international human rights and environmental law? Part 2
Part one of our two-part blog series summarised the prohibitive costs of judicial review. In this second part, Lloyd Austin – ERCS’s Chair, outlines how establishing an environmental court would be a better way to resolve disputes than using the difficult path of judicial review …
United Nations Human Rights Council recognises the human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
Great news! The United Nations Human Rights Council recognised last Friday (8th October) for the first time, that a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right …
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.
