MPs invite idea pitches for new inquiries focused on the environment, climate change and nature

MPs are inviting experts and members of the public to pitch their ideas for new inquiries focused on the environment, climate change and nature. 

The Environmental Audit Committee launched its new ‘The Environment in Focus’ inquiry on Friday 5 September 2025, which will consider proposals for the next topic the Committee should explore. Up to 10 individuals will be invited to pitch their ideas to MPs in a public session, and the winner is likely to inform the Committee’s next inquiry.

Entrants should submit a proposal of up to 250 words, setting out what the inquiry should focus on, why the issue matters, and what actions the Government can take to improve the problem identified.

In the previous Parliament, a similar exercise saw the Environmental Audit Committee exploring the relationship between heat and health and considering how buildings should be adapted to rising temperatures in its ‘Heat resilience and sustainable cooling’ inquiry.

Other recent inquiries inspired by calls for ideas from the public include the International Development Committee’s inquiry into the Women, Peace and Security agenda and the Science and Technology Committee’s 2022 inquiry into bacteriophages in the previous Parliament.

Inquiries currently being held by the Environmental Audit Committee are seeing MPs explore environmental sustainability and housing growth, flood resilience in England, airport expansion and the regulation of PFAS chemicals. The Committee has also published reports on natural capital, the UK and the Antarctic and governing the marine environment.

The call for evidence is available on the Committee’s website.