Example Questions for Candidates

Example Questions for Party Candidates in Local or National Elections

• How have you voted on environmentally related legislative proposals, such as the Climate and Nature Bill, Clive Lewis's private members bill on Water?
  
  
• Do you support the idea of a citizen's assembly on intractable environmental issues, such as water management and regulation? What about on Climate and Ecological Justice?
  
  
• A local environmental problem?
  
  

Questions for Police and Crime Commissioner Candidates

• Subject to the requirements of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, will you, in your role as Police and Crime Commissioner:
  
  
  • Use every means possible to preserve the right of UK citizens to demonstrate and protest non-violently without the risk of arrest?
    
    
  • The breakdown of our climate is increasing the frequency and severity of flooding. In anticipation of more extreme weather, with harmful impacts upon communities and infrastructure, given the central role of the police and fire services in responding to these crises, what resources and emergency plans are you proposing and implementing to manage such risks?
    
    
  • Will you use your influence to ensure that your organisation declares a climate emergency and that it commits to net zero carbon emissions and if so, when by?