UK Biodiversity Alliance

The UK Biodiversity Alliance (UKBA) is a partnership between ZSL, the Natural History Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

We want to put nature at the heart of decision making, and working with other leading environmental institutions, we combine our strengths.

As three of the UK’s leading public-facing, science-driven institutions, we are combining our expertise to provide a collective source of evidence to inform policy and practice both in the UK and overseas. This includes supporting urgent delivery of the Paris Agreement and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework in a joined-up way that works for climate, nature and people.

To do so, we are drawing on our collections and scientific knowledge, global networks, and public reach, to lead discourse on the natural world – whether by acting as a neutral convenor across national governments and international forums or by providing tailored materials to equip policymakers to deliver on their commitments.

Ultimately, we want to see decisions on nature being shaped by the best available scientific evidence and advice.

Find out more about our international policy work

We want nature at the heart of every decision. 

ZSL engages with policy across a range of forums and topics, focusing on how we can bring our research, science and conservation in working to ensure that effective evidence led biodiversity positive policy is developed and implemented across the world to see the protection, proper management, and effective restoration of the natural world.   

Our policy work spans the UK, our country programme and project locations alongside engagement with a variety of UN conventions and negotiations that pertain to the environment, climate change, biodiversity, and conservation. To explore this range of work, please see the themes and topics below which can tell you more about ZSL’s policy input and impact.