Driving two historic agreements for nature and people at COP27 and COP15

2022 was a landmark year for biodiversity, offering vital opportunities to protect and restore nature over the next decade and beyond. From pushing for radical subsidies reform, and raising the voice of more than 330 businesses calling for a strong Global Biodiversity Framework that holds businesses to account with Business For Nature, to running communications for a worldwide coalition of nature organisations at both COP27 and COP15 with Nature4Climate, we worked tirelessly this year to give nature and nature-based solutions a voice on the global stage.

The impact of these multiple campaigns was undeniable. The final COP15 deal, hot off the press at the end of the year, includes targets to protect 30% of the planet for nature by the end of the decade, reform $500bn (£410bn) of environmentally damaging subsidies, and restore 30% of the planet’s degraded terrestrial, inland water, coastal and marine ecosystems.