What can I do?

By contacting your candidate/MP and letting us know how they respond, you help make their stance clear for others. This means voters are able to hold their MP accountable for their views on tackling climate change.

We remind participants that engagement and debate with candidates and elected representatives, through any means of communication, should be conducted with respect and politeness, especially when your views differ.  

Please contact your candidate/MP and ask:

1. Do you accept the need to reduce significantly the human-caused emissions driving climate change?
2. Do you support the UK’s statutory target of reaching net zero emissions by 2050 to stop the country’s contribution to climate change?

Please send us their replies at climate.election@lse.ac.uk having first removed identifying material such as your address. We will then contact the candidate/MP to confirm any resulting changes to their assessment.

Template email

You can use or adapt the text below to send to MPs/candidates for whom we currently hold no information or who have not verified the information we do hold. (Find out if we do or not by typing your postcode into the search on our homepage.)

Dear [NAME OF CANDIDATE/MP],

I am very concerned about climate change, and I would like to know where you stand on this issue as [my MP / the candidate] for [NAME OF CONSTITUENCY] constituency, where I live. Could you tell me:

1. Do you accept the need to reduce significantly the human-caused emissions driving climate change?
2. Do you support the UK’s statutory target of reaching net zero emissions by 2050 to stop the country’s contribution to climate change?

While the country faces many issues, this is one that is particularly important to me.

I intend to share your response with ‘Climate Election,’ a project at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The objective of the project is to support voters to make informed choices, not to tell anyone how to vote.

Yours sincerely,

[YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS]

If there is information available on our website for a candidate/MP and they have already responded, you can still help. Please contact your candidate/MP anyway, explaining why acting on climate change and the net zero target is important to you.

Further guidance:

• More information on contacting your MP can be found on the UK Parliament website.
• Remember to include your own address when you write to your Member of Parliament so that they will know you live in their constituency.
• Please remove any identifying information (e.g. your address) before forwarding their responses to us.
• If you are meeting your candidate or MP face-to-face, please send us a summary of their responses which we can confirm with them directly.