Green Party leader and members nominated for Political Purpose Awards

Zack Polanski and Green Party members are among the nominees for Nature 2030’s Political Purpose Awards 2026.

The awards celebrate individuals who use “their platform to put nature, wildlife and the environment at the heart of public life”.

I’m proud to be shortlisted for a 2026 Political Purpose Award! 

The Political Purpose Awards are run by Nature 2030.

Wonderful to be nominated in the Animal Welfare category.

Congratulations to my fellow nominees! pic.twitter.com/1T6kFLuqO6

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) July 12, 2026

Who in the Green Party is up for an award?

Polanski is nominated for the Animal Welfare Award, receiving the following write up:

Since becoming Leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski has put animal welfare at the centre of the party’s political programme, helping to drive a near-fourfold increase in membership from 60,000 to 225,000.

He has campaigned for plant-based meals by default in schools and hospitals, pressed Mayor Sadiq Khan to remove GLA funding from London Fashion Week events using exotic skins and feathers, and used his London Assembly platform to challenge ministers on wild animal exploitation in fashion supply chains.

Other Green Party members being nominated include Adrian Ramsay, also for animal welfare.

Adrian Ramsay has consistently spoken out in support of animal welfare, particularly on factory farming.

He organised the cross-party MPs ‘ letter on cages and farrowing crates that fed directly into the December 2025 Animal Welfare Strategy’s commitments to consult on phasing out colony cages and farrowing crates by 2030.

He has pressed the government on greyhound racing, fur, trophy-hunting imports, electric shock collars and farm animal cages, and was the most prominent parliamentary voice arguing that the Strategy must ‘have real teeth’.

Siân Berry, for a Pollution, Waste & Air Award.

Siân Berry reintroduced the Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill (Ella’s Law) to the Commons on 1 July 2025 with cross-party backing.

The Bill would enshrine the right to breathe clean air, require WHO-aligned air quality standards by 2030, and create a Citizens ‘ Commission for Clean Air. It received its second reading in November 2025 and was back in the Commons on 27 March 2026 — a sustained legislative push on the UK’ s biggest environmental health crisis.

Hannah Spencer for a Companion Animal Care Award.

Elected at the February 2026 Gorton and Denton by- election, Hannah Spencer is the only sitting MP to own four rescue ex-racing greyhounds and got into politics through her campaign to close the Belle Vue track in Manchester.

In March 2026 she publicly backed Mark Ruskell MSP’s Greyhound Racing (Offences) (Scotland) Bill ahead of its successful Holyrood vote, and in April 2026 challenged Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy over Labour ‘ s refusal to consider an England-wide ban on greyhound racing.

Featured image via the Canary