Young people are voting for climate action in the Scottish elections this May.
The Scottish Youth Climate Coalition are a group of young people who want to make sure that the next cohort of MSPs take action to tackle climate change and protect nature.
We're turning the tables by asking candidates questions on their climate and nature commitments and grading their responses.
Scroll down this page to find out how to get involved and how candidates have been graded so far.
83% of school pupils in the UK think it’s important for leaders to do more to tackle climate change.
We want to see:
- School students taught about environmental issues
- An energy transition that lowers costs and strengthens community
- Buses publicly owned, with a £2 fare cap and free for under 30s
- Our oceans free of rubbish and destructive fishing
- Legal implementation of circular economy measures
Check out our full list of policy demands.
Contact your Scottish Parliament candidates
Contact your MSP candidates asking them to respond to our five key questions. We will score their answer to give them an overall grade. If you want to help score the answers, contact us at hello@teachthefuture.uk
Send the email to your candidates:
Received a written response? Submit it here:
How did the candidates score?
Look below to see how we scored candidates.
Cara McKee
Jane Ann Liston
Patrick Harvie
Q Manivannan
Mark Ruskell
Alan McManus
Jackie Dunbar
John Forbes
Callum George
Charles Dundas
Kristofer Keane
About the Scottish Youth Climate Coalition
Teach the Future is part of the Scottish Youth Climate Coalition, a group of youth organisations calling for the Scottish government to take stronger action to tackle climate change and protect nature. The coalition includes Young Friends of the Earth Scotland, 2050 Climate Group, Young Sea Changers Scotland, Green New Deal Rising, and People and Planet Edinburgh. Ahead of the upcoming Scottish elections, we have launched a candidate card campaign, inspired by Teach the Future’s previous successful General Election campaign. We have developed a step-by-step guide on how to contact your MSP candidates to ask them to respond to five key questions. Candidates’ responses are then reviewed and given an overall grade from A-D.