On September 3rd 2024, the Political Purpose Awards returned for its second edition in the House of Commons, alongside lead partners Ecotricity. The awards recognised the efforts of UK politicians who have supported and championed environmental causes over the last year, incentivising more MPs to devote their time to protecting nature.
Nature 2030 awarded six politicians for their work in the categories of:
One particularly outstanding politician also received the Lifetime Achievement Award, for work championing environmental causes throughout their career, while another particularly remarkable politician received the inaugural 'Wooden Spoon' award, for their work done to obstruct environmental progress.
You can learn more about each category, and see the winners, below.
Here's everything that happened at the 2024 Political Purpose Awards
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
Alex Sobel MP
Ed Miliband MP
In September 2023, Nature 2030 hosted its inaugural Political Purpose Awards. The awards recognise the efforts of UK politicians who have supported and championed environmental causes over the last year, to help to incentivise more MPs to devote their time to protecting nature.
The awards also recognised the constant work of one politician with the Lifetime Achievement Award, for the work done across their entire career to champion environmental causes.
In order to acknowledge the work of politicians across the entire UK, operating at different levels of governments, the nominees for the awards were drawn from the House of Commons and House of Lords, the Devolved Assemblies, and from metro mayors across the country.
In particular, the awards recognises politicians who have gone above and beyond what is expected of them from their role, especially those who have championed causes simply because they recognise how crucial our environment is.
To ensure all the great work of cross-party politicians is recognised, the Nature 2030 Political Purpose Awards was judged by a panel of campaigners, NGOs and journalists who are deeply involved in environmental causes and are therefore exposed to the very best (and the worst) of environmental work by our elected representatives.
The judging panel for 2024 included:
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