Photo credit - Ania Shrimpton @Wild Summit 2025 Peers for the Planet Chair, Baroness Kathy Willis led a session on investing in nature  as part of The Wild Summit 2025  – a major annual conference hosted by LINK aimed at inspiring large-scale investment and action to reverse nature decline. Baroness Willis’s keynote speech looked at the current financial incentives in place to help reach our 30x30 targets through schemes such as biodiversity net gain, carbon off-setting and

Last week we hosted the first in a series of briefings on the future of agriculture, with expert contributions from the Climate Change Committee, the Office for Environmental Protection, Pesticide Action Network UK, and the Soil Association. The opening session explored how current farming practices and chemical use are not only contributing to greenhouse gas emissions but also degrading soils, polluting water, and harming ecosystems – with long-term implications for both hum

Oral Questions in the House of Lords are a key tool for holding Ministers to account, shining a spotlight on urgent issues, and pushing the Government to take action — both at home and in tackling shared global issues. This past week, Peers for the Planet  supporters have been doing just that, urging the Government to step up its leadership on major global environmental challenges: from plastic pollution and deep-sea mining to illegal deforestation. Here’s a quick round-up of