Our Mission

We empower ordinary people to pressure mainstream parties to take real climate action.

The climate emergency is real, it’s here and it can feel overwhelming.

VoteClimate’s mission is to empower ordinary people to pressure the mainstream parties into taking action that matches the scale of the emergency.

We do this by turning the first-past-the-post system on its head. We look at polling data to identify the best vote for climate in each constituency – and share this with our members when local and general elections come around.

VoteClimate is independent of all political parties.

Why VoteClimate?

In December 2022 I was handing out leaflets about the climate crisis. I asked people how worried they were on a scale of 0 to 10 about climate change. The average was 9! Suddenly I understood how scared everyone was and how powerless they felt to do anything about it.

While delivering more leaflets the next day, I thought of this way we could unite and show the politicians that they would win or lose votes and a significant number of seats, and possibly the next general election, depending on how serious their climate policies were.

Ben

Founder of VoteClimate

How does it work?

We help our members vote tactically so together we can have the biggest influence on government climate policy. In some seats, this means switching away from the party with the strongest climate policy to make the most of first-post-the-post.

VoteClimate’s recommendations are tailored to the each election and each seat:

Where a party with ambitious climate policies can win, we will recommend them.
Where a party with ambitious climate policies appears unlikely to win, VoteClimate will recommend the party with the strongest climate policy, typically the Green Party: to give the strongest signal of our members’ desire for action.

What this means in different types of seats

Different seats work differently. We give our members recommendations for the strongest vote for climate in all local, devolved and national elections.

We will take into account the overall election projections.

Some seats are ‘marginals’ – a close call – between a party with bad climate policies and a party with good policies. In this case, we obviously recommend a vote for the party with the good climate policies.

If the seat is tied between two parties with poor climate policies, we recommend a vote for the Greens – putting pressure on the main contenders to boost their climate offer to win votes in future.

For example, based on the climate policies in the 2024 general election manifestos and election forecasts at that time, VoteClimate ranked the parties as follows:

Green
Liberal Democrat
Labour

We recommended members cast their vote as follows:

Seat Type	VoteClimate Recommendation
Con-Lab marginal	Green
Con-LD marginal	Lib Dem
Lab-LD marginal	Lib Dem
Con safe, Lab 2nd	Green
Con safe, LD 2nd	Lib Dem
Lab safe, Con 2nd	Green
Lab safe, LD 2nd	Lib Dem
LD safe, Lab 2nd	Lib Dem
LD safe, Con 2nd	Lib Dem

These recommendations are subject to the climate policies published in party manifestos and the predicted outcome of the next election.

Our recommendations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will depend on devolved assembly climate manifestos.

How do I get involved?

We share voting recommendations at local, devolved and general elections. But that’s not all – between elections, we provide updates and analysis of UK climate policy and global environmental developments. We’ll also share opportunities to get involved – whether that’s through surveys or webinars. So please join VoteClimate. Together, we can use our electoral system to make our political leaders take climate seriously.