Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland

About

Our vision is of a Scotland where every person’s right to a healthy environment is respected, protected and fulfilled. ERCS is the only organisation in Scotland that provides free legal expertise in public interest environmental law. Our mission is to assist everyone, especially people who face the biggest barriers, to exercise their rights in environmental law and to protect the environment. We do this through: • Awareness-raising of legal rights and remedies and supporting equitable participation in environmental decision-making. • Advice, assistance and representation to increase access to justice and holding public authorities and polluters to account on the environment. • Advocacy in policy and law reform to improve environmental law. • Strategic public interest litigation to tackle systemic environmental problems.

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