Environmental campaign group, 38 Degrees, were narrowly beaten yesterday as MPs voted against including a clean energy target in the Energy Bill.

If just 12 MPs had voted differently, they would have won.

Among those voting against was WelHat MP Grant Shapps who, they claim, "... didn't vote the right way. Whether it was because he voted with his political party, or he wanted to back dirty fossil fuels or for some other reason, he backed George Osborne at the expense of the environment and against the wishes of his voters."

They also state: "A year ago, the prospect of so many MPs voting for a clean energy target was inconceivable. Our work, alongside our friends at Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, changed that.

Together we sent tens of thousands of emails and tweets, and made hundreds of phone calls to our MPs. We also ramped up the pressure targeting wavering MPs with adverts in local newspapers, thousands of leaflets through doors and lots of face-to-face meetings. It's thanks to all we did together that so many MPs switched their votes, and turned out yesterday in support."

38 Degrees urge clean energy supporters to express their disappointment in MP Shapps by visiting: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/mp-voted-against