Environmental charities including the RSPB and the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS) have called out the Scottish Government’s ‘abject failure’ to meet the access to justice requirements of the UN Aarhus Convention. In 2021, the Convention’s compliance committee gave Scotland six recommendations to remove barriers that are preventing people from taking environmental cases to court. The UK’s final progress report confirms none of the recommendations have been met and it remains ‘prohibitively expensive’ to access justice.