The Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland has today urged a top UN body to intervene against the Scottish Civil Justice Council for breaching our right to public participation in environmental decision-making ...
Petition to protect Scotland’s ancient and native woodlands closed: an update from Help Trees Help Us
In June 2023, we published a Voices for Justice from the Help Trees Help Us' campaign on saving Scotland's ancient and native woodlands. After almost five years, the petition was closed. Help Trees Help Us provide an update ...
Councillors, health professionals, teachers and charities call on Scottish Government to cut air pollution from engine idling – press release
A coalition of more than twenty organisations and individuals, including councillors, health professionals, teachers, and charities, have joined forces to urge the Scottish Government to better enforce the ban on engine idling ...
February newsletter
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 ...
Header image: 'Rainbow joy, Gadloch' by Emma Donaldson.
