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

A new Portuguese translation of a key guide to climate change for policymakers has been launched at the Pre-COP30 Parliamentary Forum in Brazil. The Parliamentarians’ Guide to Climate Change was initially produced for the UK Parliament last year by the University of Exeter and Peers for the Planet. It brings together analysis from world-leading climate scientists, giving policymakers insights on climate change and its causes, effects, and solutions. Subsequently, it has bee

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