This pledge tracker shows the commitments major national parties made on the climate and nature in the run up to the last general election. It can be used as a starting point for conversations with your MP and to help you better hold them to account.
All pledges have been colour-coded, to show progress:
- Red indicates that little or no progress had been achieved.
- Amber indicates where some progress has been made or plans have been confirmed.
- Green indicates that good progress has been made, firm plans have been put in motion, or pledges completed.
As the winner of the last general election, and the current government, we are updating progress on Labour manifesto commitments on a regular basis, as they progress with their legislative agenda. These updates will happen multiple times a month, so you can keep checking on policy areas of interest to see what progress has been made.
If you have any questions, suggestions, or corrections, please let us know at info@hftf.org.uk.
Because manifestos are a bid for what parties want to do in government, pledges made by parties in opposition should be understood as topics they wish to focus on in parliament but may not have legislative power over.
With opposition parties, we made regular updates for the first 6 months (until the end of 2024) on where progress had been made for manifesto commitments, reflecting both where Labour had pursued legislative ideas which overlapped with opposition parties, took on ideas suggested by opposition, or opposition successfully raised the profile of their manifesto ideas.
Opposition pledges are no longer being updated, but the information for each party still serves as a reminder of their nature and climate commitments for the election and how these commitments were progressed in the first 6 months following the General Election. The pledge tracker indicates where progress may be made, or areas to focus on when meeting with your MP.
All grading has been done from the perspective of the parties themselves, where a success for the Green Party may be different to a success for Reform UK, and tries to account for what MPs have been doing in parliament.