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Scottish Government fails to deliver for UN Action Plan deadline on environmental rights – press release

Publication Date
1 August 2022
Type
  • Press releases
Topic
  • Aarhus Convention
  • Access to justice
Synopsis

Environmental NGOs have branded a UK and Scottish Government Action Plan to deliver on environmental rights ‘woefully inadequate’. The groups have written to the UN body to express their concern about a lack of concrete commitments to reform the legal system to help people defend the environment.

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