We contacted all of the candidates vying for your vote to be the next MP for the Glastonbury and Somerton constituency, asking each of them the same questions. We've taken their responses exactly as they were sent to us - so you know where each of the candidates stand, to help you decide who to vote for.

Here's their responses to the question:

What initiatives will you promote to address environmental issues and climate change at a local level? How will you support renewable energy projects and sustainable practices?

Jon Cousins (Green Party):

Green Party policy would transform the planning system so that all new developments come with access to public services and green spaces are protected. As mentioned in my answer to the 'Housing Question', Green policy will also ensure large-scale developments are always supported by new infrastructure such as GP surgeries, bus services, cycling and walking networks, and extra places at nurseries and schools. As your Green MP, I would push for local decisions about planning to be informed by a land use planning policy framework that seeks to balance various needs – including new infrastructure – and that all new-built homes will be required to maximise the use of solar panels and heat pumps, or equivalent low carbon technologies.

On a wider scale, the Green Party would invest £4billion over the next five years to insulate other public buildings to a high standard. This is primarily for schools and hospitals, as part of a ten-year programme. £1billion will also be made available as grants to retrofit private sector buildings to a similarly high standard.

Sarah Dyke (Liberal Democrats):

As Somerset Council's former Executive Lead for Environment and Climate Change, this is something I'm particularly passionate about. In the last Parliament, I wrote to the Secretary of State regarding the difficulties local authorities are experiencing in meeting their net zero targets. The Liberal Democrats will take the bold, urgent action needed to tackle climate change, cut energy bills and create hundreds of thousands of secure, well-paid new jobs. We'll make homes warmer and cheaper to heat with a ten-year emergency upgrade programme, starting with free insulation and heat pumps for those on low incomes, and ensure that all new homes are zero-carbon. We'll drive a rooftop solar revolution by expanding incentives for households to install solar panels, including a guaranteed fair price for electricity sold back into the grid. We'll invest in renewable power so that 90% of the UK's electricity is generated from renewables by 2030. We'll also establish national and local citizens' assemblies to give people real involvement in the decisions needed to tackle climate change. In Parliament, I held a debate about single-use plastics and I spoke in a debate about biodiversity loss.

Hal Hooberman (Labour):

National and local Government and all of us need to get our act together to tackle the climate emergency. Glastonbury is a shining example of just how to do this with brilliant local community initiatives. Labour's second mission for Government is clean energy by 2030 - this will only happen through action at a local level. Our plan for Great British Energy will see £8.3 billion invested into local communities to develop clean, green energy. Labour's Green Prosperity Plan will create 650,000 jobs across the country by 2030 - including 61,000 in the South West.

Tom Carter (Reform UK):

No response received

Faye Purbrick (Conservative)

No response received