Verdicts · Environment
Environment referendums: how members voted
Settled referendums
44
since Jun 2026
Votes cast
19,065
all time, on the environment
This week
1,743
votes · 1 referendums settled
Written opinions
639
all time, left by voters
Best of each side this week
Most respected on environment this week
Left
- ScottN5 respects
- Devon_Pedro4 respects
Centre
- Dragontao4 respects
- BrightAnchor634 respects
How environment results lean
This week—Last week—All timeCentreMost active regions this week
Voters
South East182
Scotland113
North West109
South West105
London102
Yorkshire102
East of England94
West Midlands74
East Midlands68
North East51
Wales42
Northern Ireland19
Votes each week
1,743 so far this week
54831 Aug
2,9497 Sept
1,10414 Sept
1,25921 Sept
1,40628 Sept
6,1135 Oct
12 Oct
1,74319 Oct
All-time environment highlights
Biggest landslide
YES 96%
Should all commercial dog breeders be required to hold a licence?
Won by 92 points on 1,497 votes.
Closest result
NO 53%
Should the UK use private finance for flood defence investment?
Decided by 2 votes.
Most debated
YES 81%
Has the Green Party moved away from its focus on the environment?
64 written opinions.
This week
1 settled · 1,743 votes
0%
Yes
majority
majority
43% No
Votes1,743
Skipped63
You—
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Should new AI data centres be approved even if they make net zero targets harder to hit?
The verdict
Yes won comfortably, and its loudest voices barely defended data centres at all: they argued against net zero itself, while the top No cases went after farmland and the AI bubble.
Every environment verdict
- Should new AI data centres be approved even if they make net zero targets harder to hit?YES 57%1,743 votes · 20 Oct
- Has the Green Party moved away from its focus on the environment?YES 81%1,585 votes · 9 Oct
- Should sales of fireworks for domestic use be banned to protect wildlife and pets?YES 61%1,534 votes · 7 Oct
- Should the UK abolish Natural England and the Environment Agency?NO 71%1,497 votes · 7 Oct
- Should all commercial dog breeders be required to hold a licence?YES 96%1,497 votes · 6 Oct
- Should the UK scrap the plastic bag charge?NO 74%1,406 votes · 5 Oct
- Should the UK ban disposable plastic bottles?NO 57%1,259 votes · 28 Sept
- Has the term 'net zero' become too toxic for the UK government to keep using?YES 66%1,104 votes · 21 Sept
- Do domestic cats kill enough wildlife to justify UK legislation requiring them to be kept indoors?NO 89%815 votes · 14 Sept
- With hotter summers, should water companies be made to build more reservoirs?YES 91%798 votes · 13 Sept
- Would Just Stop Oil's traffic protests near Parliament undermine climate goals?YES 71%654 votes · 10 Sept
- Should we abandon the net zero target if costs become too high?YES 69%682 votes · 9 Sept
- Should new housing have 'cool roofs' to make them more energy efficient & help combat global warming? (E.G. LIGHT GREY)?YES 66%548 votes · 3 Sept
- Should the production of data centres be temporarily banned?NO 61%492 votes · 31 Aug
- Should full ownership over our water shift back to public control, away from profit-driven private companies?YES 82%272 votes · 18 Aug
- Should the government provide £65 million in new grants and adjustments to help farmers cope with drought?YES 83%269 votes · 18 Aug
- Will Labour still be in power in 2030 to enforce the ban on new petrol and diesel cars?NO 70%244 votes · 16 Aug
- Does Andy Burnham's new government role for wildfires set the right spending priority?NO 54%250 votes · 16 Aug
- Is the climate change narrative a method to hinder capitalism?NO 57%246 votes · 15 Aug
- Should the government strengthen the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate to reach net zero faster?NO 75%244 votes · 14 Aug
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- Will proposed prevention from human-induced (anthropogenic) climate change work?NO 68%170 votes · 11 Aug
- Should water companies stop paying dividends or bonuses until they fix their 2.6bn litres per day of leaks?YES 89%155 votes · 7 Aug
- Should the UK introduce permanent stronger taxes on fossil fuel profits?YES 53%152 votes · 6 Aug
- Should owners of Grade II listed homes face fewer restrictions on installing sympathetic energy efficiency measures?YES 67%167 votes · 4 Aug
- Should the government expand the Sustainable Farming Incentive to pay more farmers for environmental improvements?YES 62%140 votes · 1 Aug
- Rather than attempt to improve the energy efficiency of old housing stock should it be demolished and rebuilt?NO 72%138 votes · 1 Aug
- Should the UK adopt a legally binding target to cut emissions by 87% by 2040?NO 64%150 votes · 27 Jul
- Should the badger cull be ended in favour of vaccination?YES 76%99 votes · 26 Jul
- Should the government spend £30m on a Farmer Collaboration Fund to promote peer learning and resilient farming?YES 68%80 votes · 22 Jul
- Should Parliament approve the proposed Seventh Carbon Budget targeting an 87% emissions reduction by 2042?NO 63%60 votes · 18 Jul
- Should the government spend £3.85bn a year on average to adapt to extreme heat?YES 61%64 votes · 15 Jul
- Should the government rely on voluntary landowner action to restore 30% of nature in England by 2030?NO 58%69 votes · 15 Jul
- Should the UK abandon its net zero target by 2050?YES 72%65 votes · 13 Jul
- Should the UK government host a prime-time televised national climate emergency briefing?NO 69%42 votes · 12 Jul
- Should the government implement the Farming Roadmap 2050 for England?YES 55%44 votes · 12 Jul
- Should all UK councils be required to reach net zero by 2030?NO 75%40 votes · 11 Jul
- Should licensed, controlled reintroductions of native species like beavers be expanded to rewild more UK areas?YES 85%101 votes · 10 Jul
- Should the UK overhaul planning rules to speed up building wind farms, solar farms, nuclear plants and transport links?YES 69%48 votes · 8 Jul
- Should Flood Re cap insurance payouts for the UK's wealthiest households?YES 60%25 votes · 4 Jul
- Should the UK government introduce stronger measures to protect people from extreme heat?NO 55%11 votes · 28 Jun
- Should the UK government increase woodland creation to meet the 30,000-hectare annual target?NO 54%28 votes · 27 Jun
- Should the UK use private finance for flood defence investment?NO 53%34 votes · 26 Jun
- Should UK businesses importing soy, palm oil, cocoa and rubber be required to prove their products are not linked to illegal deforestation?YES 67%21 votes · 25 Jun
- Should the UK introduce anti-deforestation rules for imported commodities?YES 57%23 votes · 25 Jun