What can I do?

Contributing information to the project

The best way to contribute to this project is to provide information from direct correspondence with the candidates themselves. This is because we are interested to know about the commitments of the individual, not just the party.

If you already have information from previous correspondence or other sources such as local election materials about your candidates’ views, please send it to us at Climate.Election2024@lse.ac.uk.

If we do not yet have information on your candidate, please contact them at the email addresses provided in your constituency page and then let us know how they responded at Climate.Election2024@lse.ac.uk.

Where we already have an assessment, please contact your candidate anyway. The more people contacting candidates to let them know the importance of climate change to how they vote, the better.

Contacting your candidate

We feel the key question to ask candidates is if they are committed to the UK’s net zero by 2050 target.

We have provided a template letter below which you can personalise as you see fit. Please contact us on the email given above with any replies you receive, having first removed any identifying information (e.g. your postcode).

Dear (NAME OF CANDIDATE),

I understand you have been chosen as the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for (NAME OF CONSTITUENCY), where I live. I am very concerned about climate change and I would like to know where you stand on this issue.

In particular, do you fully support the UK’s commitment to reaching net zero by 2050 and to meeting the target for 2030 announced at COP26 in Glasgow in 2021? If you are elected in the next General Election, will you work to ensure that the UK does not shy away from these commitments?

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