Through our resources and outreach work, we aim to make individuals, community groups and organisations more aware of their environmental rights and identify areas for policy and law reform.
Resources
- FAQs – our ‘frequently asked questions’ provide basic information on key environmental issues
- Guides – our guides on environmental law are useful for detailed information
- Voices for justice – these blogs give voice to the lived experience of people across Scotland fighting environmental injustices
- Videos
- Events & webinars
- Briefings & reports
- Consultation responses
For specific legal advice, please use the enquiry form
Guides
- Guide to Tree Preservation Orders, June 2023
- Guide to statutory nuisance, updated May 2023
- Guide to Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA), updated May 2023
- Guide to the right to protest, October 2021
- Guide on environmental information and how to obtain it, May 2020
FAQs & information sheets
- Pesticides FAQ, October 2023
- Snapshot of Advice Service 2021-22, April 2023
- Right to a healthy environment FAQ, March 2023
- Water pollution FAQ, November 2022
- Air pollution FAQ, updated November 2022
- Greenspace FAQ, October 2022
- Access to justice on the environment, and whether Scotland is providing it, updated September 2021
- Access to environmental information: the importance of the European framework, June 2020
Videos
September 2023: watch our animated video on the human right to a healthy environment and find out what it is, why it is important and how we can use it to protect people and the environment.
Events & webinars
- September 2023: On the 6th September 2023 we welcomed over 130 people from across Scotland to our first Environmental Rights Summit in Edinburgh to demand environmental justice. Read our Summit Review.
- September 2023: we held a joint webinar with Poverty Alliance on how the human right to a healthy environment can be used to challenge causes of poverty.
Briefings & reports
- Protective Expenses Orders: Investigation reveals why legal expenses regime needs reform, November 2023
- Review of Environmental Governance Consultation, Oct 2023
- The Substantive Right to a Healthy Environment, June 2023
- The clear and urgent case for a Scottish Environment Court (briefing), May 2023
- The clear and urgent case for a Scottish Environment Court (report), Gemmell, March 2023
- Protective Expenses Orders remain a barrier to justice, November 2022
- Equal rights of appeal and access to justice , August 2022. You can also read our formal communication to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee
- Advocacy Manifesto – An enforceable human right to a healthy environment, December 2021. Or you can just read our one-page Summary of Recommendations
- Recommendations for a plan of action on judicial expenses, November 2021
- Why Scotland needs an environmental court or tribunal, October 2021
- Commissioned by the Human Rights Consortium Scotland, the relationship between our right to a healthy environment and three other rights:
- How the human right to a healthy environment advances the rights of disabled people – joint briefing with Inclusion Scotland, September 2021
- How the human right to a healthy environment advances our right to health, September 2021
- The relationship between the human right to a healthy environment and the right to food, September 2021
- Human right to healthy environment – summary joint briefing with Scottish LINK, March 2021
- Human right to healthy environment – full joint briefing with Scottish LINK , March 2021
Consultation responses
- Review of the Effectiveness of Environmental Governance, October 2023
- Review of the Effectiveness of Environmental Governance (draft template response), September 2023
- Human Rights (Scotland) Bill, September 2023
- Human Rights (Scotland) Bill – Part 5: Recognising the Right to a Healthy Environment (draft template response), August 2023
- Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill, March 2023
- Access to Information Rights in Scotland, March 2023
- Land Reform in a Net Zero Nation, Oct 2022
- Environmental Standards Scotland – Strategic Plan, Aug 2022
- Court Fees, March 2022
- Land Court Merger, October 2020
