Ahead of the Budget announcement on Wednesday 30th October, here are three key priorities The Wildlife Trusts will be watching for.

At COP16 – the global UN nature conference in Cali, Colombia – today is Finance and Biodiversity Day.

Increasing the amount invested in nature, as well as reducing the harmful subsidies for nature’s destruction, is critical to meeting the environmental goals the world signed up to through the Global Biodiversity Framework. This week, the UK Government has the perfect opportunity to demonstrate how this can be achieved at home as Rachel Reeves announces her Budget on Wednesday in one of the most anticipated moments of the new Government.

The Chancellor has promised to use Labour’s first budget in more than a decade to reboot economic growth by prioritising investment in infrastructure and repairing public services. But to get Britain growing, investment in repairing our natural infrastructure cannot be forgotten.