What have we been doing to improve Scotland's environmental laws and defend our right to a healthy environment? Our new advocacy officer reflects on four months in post ...
Voice from the Human Rights Lived Experience Board – Ann Coleman
Ann Coleman has been a community and environmental campaigner for over 25 years. We are grateful that she agreed to be on the Human Rights Lived Experience Board to inform the development of the Human Rights (Scotland) Bill ...
We have only one earth. Let’s take care of it. Sign the petition!
Sunday 5 June is World Environment Day – to remind us that there are billions of planets in our galaxy but there is #OnlyOneEarth. Let’s take care of it ...
Using litigation to tackle climate change
How can we use litigation to tackle climate change? ERCS supporter Meet Kaur, a senior advocate & solicitor (Singapore), explores this in our latest blog ...
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 ...
What changes could help Scotland comply with international human rights and environmental law?
In this first part of a two-part blog series, we outline what changes must be implemented to bring Scotland’s legal system into compliance with the Aarhus Convention ...
SEPA, cyber attacks and Scotland unprotected?
ERCS trustee, and former CEO of SEPA, reflects on the questions raised by SEPA's cyber attack. How do our regulators regulate their internal systems, and what additional checks and balances are needed for effective environmental protection ...
Parties’ election promises on environmental rights compared
Ahead of the Scottish Parliamentary election on 6 May, here is what the political parties have said in their election manifestos about incorporating the human right to a healthy environment ...
