{"id":971121,"date":"2026-05-19T13:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/971121\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:49:22","slug":"katie-white-mp-backs-climate-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/971121\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie White MP backs climate awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By Jill Stocks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/katiewhitemp.org.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie White, MP Leeds North West<\/a> and UK Climate Minister, is to chair the judging panel at the inaugural Pride in Our Planet Awards taking place next month.<\/p>\n<p>The awards, which will be supported by Sky and held at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theconduit.com\/about-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conduit Club<\/a> ahead of London Climate Action Week, will celebrate people and organisations making a difference with awards across a number of categories.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations are invited for the following categories:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Community Climate Hero<\/li>\n<li>Business of the Year<\/li>\n<li>Innovator of the Year<\/li>\n<li>Climate Communicator of the Year<\/li>\n<li>Restoring Britain Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Horsforth\u2019s MP is keen for the unsung heroes to get some recognition. She told us: \u201cI\u2019m really excited to be chairing the judging panel for the inaugural Pride in Our Planet Awards this June in London.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things I love most about this job is getting to meet people across the country who are just quietly getting on with making things better.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople restoring nature, starting new businesses, bringing communities together, inventing new ideas, or finding practical ways to tackle climate challenges without making a huge fuss about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of that work never gets the attention it deserves. These awards are about changing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most recently Ms White has been campaigning to ban destructive bottom trawling in the world\u2019s oceans, and introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/westleedsdispatch.com\/horsforths-grove-cinema-hosts-special-screening-of-david-attenborough-film\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">special showing<\/a> of the Sir David Attenborough film \u201cOcean\u201d earlier in the month at Horsforth\u2019s Grove Cinema, organised by Leeds Greenpeace and <a href=\"https:\/\/horsforthclimateaction.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Horsforth Climate Action<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_9963.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202997\"  \/>Katie White MP with Leeds Greenpeace volunteers at the Horsforth film showing<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theconduit.com\/upcoming-events\/pride-in-our-planet-awards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pride In Our Planet Awards<\/a> will take place on June 18 and bring together people from across the media, politics, business and community organisations, highlighting stories from these groups and individuals who are tackling climate challenges through new business ventures, new ideas and bringing the community together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nominations for the awards close next week and you can vote using this <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/Vq5ETsXuLAyFdXuv7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"616\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-17.13.46-616x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201524\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnybankmills.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sunnybankmills.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jill Stocks Katie White, MP Leeds North West and UK Climate Minister, is to chair the judging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":971122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,208169,393,4884,209390,213126,265424,1860,16,15],"class_list":["post-971121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-community-reporters","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-horsforth","tag-jill-stocks","tag-katie-white-mp","tag-leeds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116601564087019677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/971122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}