The 2024 ENDS Power List includes Minesh Parekh, Sheffield City Council councillor, as one of the top 50 UK environmental politicians to have made a positive contribution to green causes over the past two years
The ENDS Power List is published by the ENDS report, the UK’s no.1 source of news, analysis and reference across the carbon, environmental and sustainability agenda.
The politicians who have made the final list include changemakers, who have driven changes to green policy and legislation, as well as green champions who have promoted environmental causes. The list includes rebels – politicians that rebelled against their party line to push green issues or defend environmental protections.
Parekh has recently sounded the alarm about Councils’ abilities to tackle the climate crisis, writing in GND Media to raise concerns that ‘the vast majority of councils don’t believe they have enough funding to deliver net zero’ and calling for the next Government to deliver to local authorities ‘new powers, and renewed investment, to lift the burden from our councils’.
Minesh Parekh, Labour Councillor for Crookes and Crosspool, said:
“The climate and ecological emergency requires urgent and radical action at all levels. Councils will need more funding to meet the scale of the challenge we face.
“A future Labour Government has said that support decarbonising our steel industry, bring buses and trains into public ownership, and create a publicly owned energy company.”
“Alongside this we will need to empower councils to become the drivers of our postcarbon future.”
