Environmental Rights petition handed to Scottish Government on Human Rights Day
- Area of Work: Policy and Research
- Type: News Item
- Published: 13th December 2023
The Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland has launched a petition to demonstrate support for a right to a healthy environment.
Everyone in Scotland deserves to live in a healthy environment. Yet our current system does not enable us to effectively hold public bodies and polluters to account – whether that’s on tackling the climate and nature crises, or the addressing the widespread pollution of our air, land, and water.
That is why the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS) launched a petition to demonstrate widespread public support for an enforceable right to a healthy environment and a dedicated Scottish Environment Court. It has now been signed by over 1,500 individuals and 66 organisations, including environmental and human rights charities, campaign groups, thinktanks, and trade unions.
Today, ERCS is formally handing in the petition to Màiri McAllan MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Net Zero, and Just Transition, to coincide with Human Rights Day on 10 December.
Find out more in ERCS’s Human Rights Day blog: This Human Rights Day, Scotland must realise the promise of the right to a healthy environment (ercs.scot)
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