Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland
@ERCScot
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Justice for people and the environment. ERCS is no longer active on X, please find us on Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn.
Scotland-wide
Joined March 2021
ERCS is leaving X. Read why & come join us in our other online spaces: https://t.co/yxpQdbvcSK
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Thanks to everyone who made it to our rally yesterday! We sent a clear message to @scotgov - it's time to make #accesstojustice affordable for all & remove financial barriers that prevent people from using our legal system to protect the environment
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Important rally at the Edinburgh Court of Session today about SG failure to honour environmental rights and justice @ERCScot @JohnSwinney
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In 2021, the Convention’s governing bodies issued Scotland a deadline to end over a decade of non-compliance by 1 October 2024. Why have SNP ministers not bothered to take action to achieve compliance with this important UN Convention on access to environmental justice?
⚠️ On 1 October, Scotland will fail to meet the UN Aarhus Convention deadline to make access to #environmentaljustice affordable. 📢 Join our rally to call for action & hear from community campaigners who faced unaffordable expenses when taking environmental cases to court.
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📢 Today 1 October we are gathering at the Court of Session in Edinburgh at 12:30pm to show our anger & call for action. Come join us 👇🏽 https://t.co/xSS1SsWY8s
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⚠️ Today @scotgov has failed to meet the UN deadline to make access to environmental justice affordable. @ScotGovFM,@Siobhianayr, @GillianMSP what action will you take to remove financial barriers to holding polluters to account in court? Read more: https://t.co/zXkd50Ag1R
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⚠️ On 1 October, Scotland will fail to meet the UN Aarhus Convention deadline to make access to #environmentaljustice affordable. 📢 Join our rally to call for action & hear from community campaigners who faced unaffordable expenses when taking environmental cases to court.
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Have you subscribed to our newsletter yet? 👉🏽 In the September edition, our Chief Officer Shivali reflects on the Human Rights Bill & recaps our latest work on supporting people to tackle environmental degradation. Read & subscribe: https://t.co/EBkaDhRidO
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Fantastic to catch up with Benji Brown from @ERCScot - we are united in our calls for better enforcement of Scotland's engine idling ban. @asthmalungscot
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ERCS, together with @NASUWT_Scotland @RCPEdin @asthmalungscot & others, have been calling for better enforcement of Scotland's engine idling ban. Read our briefing here:
NASUWT supports Recommendation 10: Implement and enforce the ban on vehicle idling across Scotland and increase the fixed penalty notice to act as a greater deterrent. @asthmalungscot
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Fantastic to hear from Prof Jill Belch of @RCPEdin at @asthmalungscot parliamentary event, providing a lucid breakdown of how air pollution damages our health. This is why we need a legal right to a #healthyenvironment and effective enforcement of our environmental laws
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⚠️ On 1 October, Scotland will fail to meet the UN Aarhus Convention deadline to make access to #environmentaljustice affordable. 📢 Join our rally to call for action & hear from community campaigners who faced unaffordable expenses when taking environmental cases to court.
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📣 Exciting speakers announced for our upcoming webinar: Scotland's Programme for Government 2024-25: What Does It Mean for Human Rights? 🗓️ Thursday, 26 September 🕛 12:00 - 1:00pm 💻 Via Zoom https://t.co/J7jKYkG1JZ
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'Scotland urged to resurrect right to a healthy environment.' @TheENDSReport highlights our response to the news that the Human Rights Bill would be excluded from @ScotGovFM's 2024-5 Programme for Government:
endsreport.com
Campaigners are urging the Scottish government to retrieve its commitment to put the right to a healthy environment into law after it was kicked into the long grass.
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📢 NEWS 📢 The Human Rights Consortium Scotland has issued a letter to the First Minister on behalf of over 100 organisations and members of the lived experience boards who have helped shape the Scottish Human Rights Bill up until this point. Why is the letter important? 🧵
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Have you subscribed to our newsletter yet? 👉🏽 In the September edition, our Chief Officer Shivali reflects on the Human Rights Bill & recaps our latest work on supporting people to tackle environmental degradation. Read & subscribe: https://t.co/EBkaDhRidO
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Our report exposing post-Brexit environmental governance failures has been covered by @TheENDSReport:
endsreport.com
Environmental Standards Scotland (ESS), an environmental watchdog established post-Brexit to scrutinise and enforce environmental law in Scotland, is failing to effectively enforcing green laws,...
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https://t.co/ncYyN8EPKc “Supportive politicians are supportive in talk, but fail in action”. Let's get cleaning our water into every political manifesto ahead of the next Holyrood election @BenMacpherson @adamnolsmcvey @KatrinaFaccenda @CllrChasBooth @JackRMCaldwell @ERCScot
inews.co.uk
One in five of Scottish Water’s sewage discharge points is not good enough, according to the national water giant’s own assessment
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An excellent webinar series from experts in the field - attend if you can!
We have four free webinars coming up with @PlanDemoc. We'll cover different aspects of the new National Planning Framework 4 and the planning system. Register today 👇 https://t.co/36hTV3jGoO 1st: Understanding Scotland’s new planning system. 📅Wed 15th Nov 2023 ⏰19:00-20:30
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