1. I have returned even more passionate about the need to re-treasure our natural environment. This beautiful, fragile planet home of ours needs us to tread more gently upon it. We must not sleepwalk to disaster. We need to find ways to live sustainably with creation. For too long we have lived as if we are apart from nature. The truth is we are a part of nature. We have no planet B.

2. We are still way off the mark when it comes to our goals for climate, nature and pollution. At the last biodiversity COP15 in 2022, nearly every country in the world committed to halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030. They agreed to show how they would do that by this year’s conference. Too many, including the UK, haven’t done so.

It seems that it is easy for governments to make a pledge and far harder to take action. Meanwhile wildlife populations continue to fall. There has been a drop of 73% since 1970 – that’s in my lifetime. We must urgently reverse the decline as we rely on nature for so much of our daily lives, including our drinking water, the air we breathe, and........

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