COP27 was touted as the implementation COP, the Africa COP that would put the priorities of the most vulnerable at its heart in the bid to negotiate a climate deal. Did it deliver? Let’s takes a look at the highs and lows of the Sharm el-Sheikh climate negotiations.

At the mid-way point of this year’s climate summit – COP27 – we're pausing to reflect on progress so far, and what’s yet needed for a successful outcome. Get involved in calling for the success of COP15 too. Check out urgentconversation.org to add your voice!

Many ambitious local leaders are already making significant progress in delivering the commitments of the 25 Year Environment Plan. Our local authorities must be given the powers and funding they need to deliver their part.

The RSPB and other environmental NGOs are deeply frustrated with the delay in setting legally binding environmental targets and have launched a formal complaint with DEFRA. Learn about the enforcement process and what further action we are planning to take.

RSPB will be at COP27, with our BirdLife family, ready to hold our leaders accountable and push for the best outcomes for nature, climate and people. This is a crucial moment for climate and nature action to be urgently scaled up across the globe, and the stakes could not be higher.

Since the publication of the 25 Year Environment Plan the UK Net Zero Strategy has been published and the third National Adaptation Programme is underway. With the upcoming 25YEP refresh, there now needs to be more emphasis across policies on the role of nature in tackling climate change.

The RSPB is calling for a ban on burning peatland whilst asking for citizen’s help identifying burns using the Upland Burn reporting App.

The long awaited COP15 summit is fast approaching. Given we’re already 2 years into the decade, there isn’t a moment to waste; we need to plan how we will deliver a nature positive world by 2030.

The positive ambition initially expressed in the 25YEP seems to have been abandoned. It’s crucial to keep nature’s recovery central to the planning system in the 25YEP refresh and avoid mechanisms that weaken nature protect.

In order to meet its Environment Act targets, the UK Government needs an effective and ambitious set of nature friendly farming and land management schemes based on the principle of public money for public goods.

Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) with cameras will provide robust data to help UK fish stock recoveries, monitor and minimise bycatch, and support fisherman proving their sustainable approach to fishing, promoting a thriving and sustainable industry for generations to come.

Woodcock can legally be shot throughout the winter before the migratory population arrives in UK. A Wild Justice petition aims to delay the hunting season in order to help this red-listed species.

The 25YEP refresh is an opportunity to drive business change through accountability and credibility, creating the stable environment in which businesses can account for nature across their operations.

Recent investigations, including by the BBC, show that wood burned in Drax power station is harvested from precious forest habitats around the world and they receive millions of pounds in “zero carbon” subsidies to do it.

Since the publication of the 25YEP seabird numbers have continued their decline but government has been slow to turn its proposals into meaningful action. With the refresh coming up shortly, it's time to integrate ambitious and measurable outcomes for the marine environment into this framework.

It’s not a choice between food production or enhancing nature. We can and need to have both. In fact, future food security relies on healthy soils, clean water and plentiful biodiversity. The use of pesticides damages all these things.

The 25 Year Environmental Plan refresh, in January 2023, is the perfect moment for Liz Truss’ new government to define the positive policies that will put nature on a recovery trajectory. We are setting out the commitments that we hope to see in the refreshed plan.

Right now, our food and farming system is destroying the very nature it relies on. With climate change adding to the pressure on our land, we need to act now to ensure that our future food supply is secure – nature-friendly farming can help us achieve this.

Steph Morren, Senior Policy Officer at RSPB, introduces a new report from Wildfish, RSPB, Buglife and the Pesticide Collaboration called Chemical Pollution: The Silent Killer of UK Rivers.

An unprecedented outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has worryingly hit the UK’s internationally important seabirds. If we are to turn the tide and drive their recovery, we must act now. Here we explain the urgent actions needed to give our seabirds a fighting chance.

The scale of the climate and nature crisis may lead us to reach only for the big levers of change but places, people and communities matter when it comes to saving nature.

While many farmers and policy makers are leading the transition to nature positive food systems, we still have a long way to go to make sure that policy supports farmers taking up nature-friendly practices. The RSPB championed the role of nature in our farming systems at this year's Groundswell Regenerative Agriculture show.

Businesses need to identify their impacts and dependencies on nature, whether direct or indirect, and start driving change now. Senior Policy Officer Kim Dunn discusses how business can lead the way and start taking action towards a Nature Positive future now.

Private investment is finally an option for nature conservation. As a nation, our big challenge is to make good use of this money. This is the fourth in an exciting blog mini-series exploring our vision for a Nature Positive future and how we can make it a reality. In this blog, project consultant Jack Rhodes looks at how we can use high-quality private investment to help protect and restore nature.

When the UK’s independent climate advisers give the UK Government 4 out of 10 for progress on climate action, you have to question the Government’s commitment to really delivering our net zero targets. Governments across the UK urgently needs to move from setting policy to implementing climate action on the ground.