Peers joined members of the P4P team, and over 10,000 farmers, policy makers and members of the public, at Groundswell Agricultural Festival last week to learn about the important role of regenerative agriculture. One of the key messages across the day was that a move towards a more regenerative system will make the UK and its farming sector more resilient to geopolitical and climate related pressures and shocks, such as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz which has increased

Yesterday in the House of Lords, we hosted a private briefing with Lieutenant General Richard Nugee and Professor Timothy Lang on UK food security. We heard how the UK's food system, built for efficiency and just-in-time management, currently relies on imports for around 40% of the food we consume, including 85% of our fruit and 50% of our vegetables. In an increasingly unstable global context, with climate impacts disrupting agricultural production and geopolitical instabili

The Government wants the UK to remain a world leader in hosting major sporting events. But the climate these events take place in is changing - and our sporting infrastructure must adapt with it. This week, Peers have been scrutinising the Sporting Events Bill, a major piece of legislation designed to strengthen the UK’s ability to host world-class competitions. Yet the Bill, and the information published so far about the Government’s forthcoming proposed Major Events Str

P4P Vice-Chair Baroness Boycott has written in the latest edition of The House Magazine about the growing risks of heatwaves for pregnant women. A growing body of evidence shows that high temperatures increase the risk of premature birth, low birth weight and other serious complications. Yet pregnant women are rarely warned about these risks, and some are still left to give birth and recover on wards without adequate cooling. The good news: there is much we can do. A new Well

P4P Chair , Baroness Professor Kathy Willis has written to The Guardian highlighting the stark inequalities across England when it comes to accessing to nature-rich places, and the lost health, wellbeing and economic benefits that they can provide. Her letter responds to new research commissioned by Wildlife and Countryside Link, which shows that England’s poorest communities face the deepest cuts to green space under proposed changes to planning law. Kathy’s own research

A new Bill proposing major reforms to UK financial regulation and banking is currently making its way through Parliament. Yet despite the wide-ranging reforms contained in the Financial Services and Markets Bill, there is no mention of climate change or nature issues. That is a missed opportunity to help deliver the Government's ambition for the UK to become the sustainable finance capital of the world. Achieving that ambition will require a financial system that not only sup

Baroness Kathy Willis, Chair of Peers for the Planet, together with Systemiq and the University of Oxford, hosted a roundtable in the House of Lords on UK energy security and economic resilience. The discussion built on the Resilience Agenda, a joint initiative between Systemiq and the University of Oxford that explores how security, climate and competitiveness challenges are strategically interconnected and must be addressed together. More than 40 senior leaders from governm

Yesterday we were delighted to welcome Emma Pinchbeck and Baroness Brown from the Climate Change Committee to the House of Lords to brief cross-party Peers on their new report – A Well-Adapted UK. The report is the fourth independent assessment of UK climate risk, and it sets out in detail both what the UK is already experiencing now and what it can expect by 2050: intensifying heat, growing flood risk, and drier summers with a rising risk of drought and wildfire. The CCC a

This week the Climate Change Committee warned that heat is now the UK’s leading climate-related health threat, with recent record-breaking summers set to become the new normal, posing major challenges, especially for keeping vulnerable people safe and cool. To coincide with this, Peers for the Planet Vice-Chair Rosie Boycott joined a webinar organised by the Wellcome Trust and The Royal Society exploring the growing evidence on how extreme heat affects pregnancy. It was cha

The Pension Schemes Bill has completed its Lords stages and will now return to the Commons for consideration. Following cross-party efforts by P4P Peers, alongside MPs and organisations including ShareAction , the Government has committed to address longstanding uncertainty around pension trustees’ investor duties, particularly how to respond to system-level risks such as climate change and nature loss, while acting in savers’ best interests. This will be delivered throug

Peers for the Planet is pleased to announce the appointment of Emma Crane as our new Executive Director. Emma succeeds Lynette Huntley, our long-standing founding Executive Director, who has stepped down after more than six years. Lynette has been an exceptional leader, building Peers for the Planet from an idea into a trusted partner and a key voice in the climate and nature policy landscape. We are deeply grateful for all that she has achieved, for the strong position i

A cross-party group of Peers have urged the Government to phase out the use of forest biomass in the UK’s energy system as soon as possible, warning that it exacerbates climate change, harms nature and undermines energy security. They have also underlined that the UK imports millions of tonnes of biomass every year from Estonia, Latvia, the US and Canada. As recent global events have demonstrated, relying on imports to feed our power stations undermines energy security. While