Governance

Our Governance Group works to raise the profile on Scotland’s environmental and legal governance.

The Governance Group has a number of active members, a full list is shown below.

Current focus

Brexit

The Governance group works to inform members and stakeholders of the implications of Brexit, working to ensure European environmental legalisation protections are not lost.

LINK’s Manifesto for Holyrood 2021

Our manifesto sets out the key policies and actions that the next Scottish Government must undertake to address the nature and climate emergencies. For member organisation manifestos, see here

This Group coordinates the Fight For Scotland’s’ Nature Campaign

 

Convener

Lloyd Austin

Staff liaison

Rachael Fairbairn

and

Dan Paris

Other areas the group work on include:

The Aarhus issues: access to information, including Freedom of Information (FOI) and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR); access to justice in environmental matters; public participation in decision-making.

Government structures in Scotland for environment and land management, including forestry and agriculture.

Governance Matters – reviewing methods and processes in the legislative, executive, judicial and civil branches of government in Scotland over the years since the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.

Referendum Challenge – our ideas on environmental essentials for Scotland’s future around which we want to know which constitutional option will best deliver.

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA)

Environmental liability (ELD)

Latest News

LINK response to Programme for Government

06 Sep 2022

Today’s Programme for Government comes amid severe challenges and political uncertainty. It is more important than ever that government, at all levels, retains a laser-focus on tackling the nature and climate emergencies, and ensures that this is a decade of delivery. This parliamentary term will see vital legislation across a number of policy areas, including […]

Charities warn levelling up bill could undermine environmental protections in devolved nations

18 Aug 2022

Four environmental organisations representing charities across the UK have warned that the Levelling Up Bill could weaken protections for nature by handing the UK Government the power to amend the law in devolved areas. The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill will grant UK Ministers the power to scrap and rewrite, by secondary legislation, environmental protections […]

From Rhetoric to Reality revisited: a new report

11 Apr 2022

In 2011, LINK published our first Rhetoric to Reality assessment. In it, we commissioned an independent consultant to assess 8 key areas of environmental policy on how far reality on the ground had matched the rhetoric of policy. Now, ten years on, we’ve commissioned another assessment. A decadal review seems timely: it covers the life […]

Latest Outputs

Member Bodies

Related Pages

Fight for Scotland's nature

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