Nobody now denies the inextricable link between poverty and climate change. It is manifestly true that rising global temperatures will make vast swathes of the world uninhabitable and force millions more into poverty and mass migration. Because of this, the UK has taken an international lead in reducing our own carbon emissions and supporting developing countries to do the same through the International Climate Fund. The nature crisis is intimately related to this and has the same destructive potential, but it receives a fraction of the political attention and government funding. It is time for that to change.

What would this look like in practice? I am part of a new, cross-party campaign, People and Nature, supported by MPs, environmental organisations and development NGOs and we are calling on the Government to act on three key areas.

Firstly, we need to make sure that all UK overseas aid is nature positive. That means that all our aid should be shown to be, at a minimum, doing no harm to the natural environment, just as every penny we spend at present must be shown to be good for sustainable development.

Secondly, the Government must suspend harmful practices that contradict our stated support for the natural world. While we have made great efforts to stop coal use and plant more trees at home, we are still investing billions of pounds in fossil fuel projects overseas through export finance and unsustainable practices. We should comprehensively review all such spending and make sure that it is not harming the planet.