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Advocacy manifesto: An enforceable human right to a healthy environment

Publication Date
December 2021
Type
  • ERCS information
Topic
  • Aarhus Convention
  • Right to a healthy environment
  • Scottish Environment Court
Synopsis

This manifesto sets out the legal reforms that are needed to implement an enforceable human right to a healthy
environment.

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