After a summer of extreme heat and devastating wildfires, and amid intense debate about new North Sea oil, ERCS and the University of Glasgow will be hosting a speaker event to explore how Scotland’s legal profession can respond to our escalating climate crisis ...
Stop Toxic Sewage Sludge Spreading: Tenacious campaigners call for cases
Tenacious Award Winners, Jo Hirst and Doreen Goldie, are working with ERCS to call for a moratorium on toxic sewage sludge spreading on agricultural land. They are calling for cases of sewage sludge spreading in Scotland to support the campaign ...
Parents, teachers and health campaigners hail ‘window of opportunity’ to cut air pollution from engine idling – press release
Parents, teachers, and environmental health campaigners have hailed a ‘window of opportunity’ to cut toxic air pollution from engine idling ...
ERCS welcomes new rules for hyperscale data centres as a win for environmental justice – press release
After months of growing pressure from campaigners and protests by communities up and down the country, the Scottish Government announced that planning applications for data centres over 50MW will require environmental impact assessments ...
700 enquiries to ERCS’s Law Service
Our Chief Officer Shivali Fifield reflects on the recent wins of ERCS's Law Service, which has now received over 700 enquiries. Read more in the latest Snapshot ...
ERCS affected by Beacon CRM data breach
On Monday 3 August, ERCS was notified about a data breach affecting Beacon, our third-party CRM (Customer Relationship Management) provider. This is the final update from Beacon and information for supporters ...
What Scotland’s Programme for Government means for environmental rights
The Scottish Government has published its Programme for Government, setting out its plan for the next five years and specific actions for the year ahead ...
Towards disability-inclusive climate emergency planning
A collaborative programme of work by the Sensing Climate research project, Inclusion Scotland and the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland has identified a series of priorities for disability-inclusive climate emergency planning centred on a six-step model ...
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