Starting 2025 at ERCS: read about lived experience research and our latest win ...
Potential efficiency savings of a Scottish Environment Court
A new ERCS briefing shows how a dedicated Scottish Environment Court could deliver efficiency savings ...
Race & the Right to a Healthy Environment: Lived experiences on access to greenspace and healthy food
Race & the Right to a Healthy Environment aims to establish a benchmark and platform to begin to respond to the priorities of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups in Scotland ...
A small victory for transparency: the establishment of an agricultural EIA register
In this long read, our Legal Director Dr Ben Christman reflects on why it took over seven years for a public body to comply with legal transparency duties, and what this tells us about the flaws in Scotland’s environmental governance regime ...
Win: Environmental Impact Assessments of large agricultural projects finally made public
After ERCS challenged RPID’s failure to comply with the law, they have finally published the register of agricultural Environmental Impact Assessments ...
Charities call the Scottish Government’s lack of progress on UN treaty an ‘abject failure’ to protect environmental rights – press release
Environmental charities including the RSPB and ERCS have called out the Scottish Government’s ‘abject failure’ to meet the access to justice requirements of the UN Aarhus Convention ...
December newsletter
Read our latest news and watch our film with the Environmental Justice Network ...
Environmental Justice Network Film
The Environmental Justice Network is a group of community campaigners from across Scotland who are pushing for improved environmental regulations and enforcement. In this film, the stories of five campaigns weave together ...










