28 July 2024
With our members' wonderful help we were able to achieve so much at the General Election.
We helped the Greens more than double their votes from 865,000 to:
1,940,000
And to quadruple the Greens' parliamentary seats to:
4
Well done, one and all!
Seats where the party we recommended as the strongest vote for climate won:
75
Seats where the party we recommended as the best party on climate that could win won:
450
Our ground-breaking analysis, a UK electoral first, quantified the climate impact of six parties' manifestos:
Our tweets about this research were viewed 30,000 and 40,000 times:
Our tweets were reposted and quoted by:
We were covered in The Guardian and mentioned in Forbes.
Emails to 4,000 candidates explaining whether or not we were recommending them and why. Plus sending them reports on the 12,000 Commitment statements we have gathered from people who will vote only for candidates promising to vote for action on climate and nature.
Our voting recommendations were reused on social media by many candidates.
In the space of a few hours on 4th July 22,000 people visited the VoteClimate website, stretching its capacity to the limit.
Given how amazingly far we've come in just 15 months, we're doubling down and pushing on. We will hold our elected representatives to account and we're going to build VoteClimate into a movement that forces our politicians to take your concerns seriously.
We need you to be part of our journey. So please stick with us!
1. Will you share our manifesto analyses above with friends and colleagues? to demonstrate how urgently radical action is needed. Please ask anyone interested to Join Us. Every member counts.
2. We need to expand from a part-time to a full-time team. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for any membership subscription you can spare, to power us to success!
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