The writer is managing director of Iceland Foods

Heavy-polluting industries are already trying to take advantage of the one-year delay to COP26, the global climate change summit, caused by coronavirus. Their siren calls demanding legislators pull back from environmental targets are growing louder. Governments have a duty to ignore them just as business leaders have a duty to demonstrate that there is a clear economic advantage, and appetite, in prioritising a green recovery.

Actions speak louder than words and that is why, at Iceland, we have cut our food waste by nearly a quarter in the past two years, on top of our commitment to removing single-use plastic and palm oil from our operations. I am also supporting the UK government’s Council for Sustainable Business which is bringing together global industry leaders this month to agree tangible ways to tackle the two biggest environmental challenges of our time: climate change and biodiversity decline. We will focus on action, not talk.