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More Natural Capital Coalition
From the threat posed to the city by climate change, to the depletion of our natural world, and the growing inequalities in health and wellbeing, Londoners need leaders who are up to the challenge of delivering a better future for people and nature.
Who we are
The More Natural Capital Coalition is made up of leading environmental organisations committed to working together to influence policy that shapes the action taken at GLA and council level to protect London’s natural environment for people and wildlife. We are convened by CPRE London.
- In November 2025 we published our manifesto 10 Environmental Pledges for the May 2026 London Borough Elections10 Environmental pledges for the May 2026 elections for the May 2026 London Borough elections. We want Londoners to contact their local political parties, election candidates (when they are declared) and their current local councillors to ask them to make 10 pledges to improve the environment in their borough.
Our senior leaders and policy staff meet regularly to coordinate on ways to work together to add weight and focus to key campaigns. We aim to:
- Engage and influence politicians and officials
- Scrutinise proposals and seek to influence relevant policies
- Hold the Mayor, Greater London Authority and London boroughs to account on key environmental issues.
What are we currently working on?
The Coalition’s main area of focus in the coming months will be influencing potential Councillors around environmental pledges they should include in their manifestos for the May 2026 local elections. We will also be seeking to raise public awareness of key issues related to making London a greener and more climate change resilient city.
We will do this through webinars, seminars, meetings, media, and social media. Look out for our upcoming webinar.
Our impact so far
- Read about our top 10 priorities for the London Mayor. See our 2022 ‘A More Natural Capital – an agenda for the London local elections’. – which is the process of being updated ahead of the May 2026 Council elections
- We brought key environmental issues affecting the capital to the attention all candidates by discussing with them our ten key calls to action. As part of this work, Coalition members met with the four main mayoral candidates and their teams, and candidates participated in a well-attended Mayoral Environment Debate on 25 March 2024.
- We influenced positions on environmental issues in party manifestos, with members of the GLA’s Environment Committee able to continue reiterating these points where relevant during the mayoral term. .
- Our efforts to call for for London to become a ‘Sponge City’ helped further build the understanding of decision makers about the link between action on urban greening and stream and river water quality and flood resilience
- In early 2022, we pressed all candidates in the London boroughs elections to support our manifesto, ‘A More Natural Capital – an agenda for the London local elections’, which identified 28 actions the Coalition wanted to see Borough Councils take.
- In 2021, we formed the Coalition to influence commitments from Mayoral candidates on our ‘A More Natural Capital’ manifesto, which set out an ambitious environmental programme of action for London. We held our first More Natural Capital Coalition Mayoral Environment Debate, and subsequently published a ‘First 100 days’ report on how well the Mayor was doing in delivering.
Email amorenaturalcapital@cprelondon.org.uk and we will link you up to relevant experts able to tell you more about any of our calls to action and how you can help.
