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 ...
Charities call the Scottish Government’s lack of progress on UN treaty an ‘abject failure’ to protect environmental rights – press release
Environmental charities including the RSPB and ERCS have called out the Scottish Government’s ‘abject failure’ to meet the access to justice requirements of the UN Aarhus Convention ...
ERCS is recruiting a Solicitor
We're looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated environmental lawyer to help us establish Scotland’s only law centre for environmental justice ...
Scotland’s environmental watchdog needs a trip to the vet
Read ERCS's report on our first 11 representations to Environmental Standards Scotland, and our legal director's summary ...
Lunchtime 101: Why Scotland needs a legal right to a healthy environment
What is the right to a healthy environment and what would legal environmental rights mean for Scotland? Watch our free lunchtime webinar ...
Former UN Special Rapporteur explains in 90 seconds why Scotland needs the right to a healthy environment
During the last six years as the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, Professor David R. Boyd has supported countless people across the world to implement and use their right to a healthy environment – watch his message to Scotland ...
Civil society groups call on First Minister to ‘show leadership’ by enshrining a legal right to a healthy environment – press release
Over sixty environmental, human rights, and health organisations have written an open letter to Scotland’s First Minister, urging him to push ahead with plans for an enforceable right to a heathy environment in the next Programme for Government ...
Reflecting on the Rights Detectives investigation into a right to a healthy environment for children and young people
Juliet Harris, Director of Together Scotland, reflects on how the right to a healthy environment can strengthen children’s rights across the First Ministers priority areas for action ...
