Davidson Marama; Dean JacquiHon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. We who are here today borrow the earth from our mokopuna and that's a longstanding kōrero particularly heralded by indigenous communities around the world. We who are here today are caretakers of the environment that we also borrow from our mokopuna. We are caretakers today of the humanity we are nurturing for our mokopuna. This is the framework that we all need to adopt as we set pace for the work we need to do when we give our earth back to our future generations. We're proud to support these emission budgets as another key milestone towards getting to a zero-carbon and a climate-safe future for our mokopuna.I want to acknowledge the work of the experts at the Climate Commission and affirm that we will continue to be led by the best science and not shy away from taking the action needed to bring emissions down as fast as feasible. We know that the scale of change is daunting absolutely and there will be communities who need extra support to transition and we are committed to a just transition for workers and exposed regions also.I did want to pick up on the equity lens that will be needed as we progress this work. I want to pick up on how we've often heard particularly from the Opposition that we need to take people with us in this work and we absolutely do. But let's be mindful that we have already left behind for generations many communities and many groups of people. So let's not pretend that we are already all starting from the same point. Let's not pretend that there haven't already been privileges and oppressions in the economic system that far too many are actually still trying to protect. So I wanted to point out that a rebalancing of those privileges will be necessary and a rebalancing will be necessary for those who have been consistently disadvantaged.These emissions budgets carry us through to 2035. By 2035 my mokopuna—Raeya is three this Saturday and Ariya will be 4½ months—will be teenagers by then they'll probably be taller than me and they will have their own opinions about how the world should work. I fully expect them to hold us all to account for the decisions we're making right now on climate change. I hope that we'll all be able to look back and be able to say We did as much as we could to bring emissions down and keep global warming under 1.5 degrees."Absolutely we are all climate parliamentarians; what we also have to understand is the connection to our environment. As the fabulous Minister of Conservation Ms Allan pointed out to us today we also have to understand that we cannot have system change without understanding the connection to people and to the care for people. People environment and climate are all absolutely interdependent on each other and the work that we do.We do acknowledge the support of movements and advocates for stronger and faster action and we agree that climate action needs to happen as fast as possible. At the same time let's remember we are dealing with around 250 years of an economic system that has continued to push climate emissions up. What we are doing right now in actually setting a plan to push climate emissions down is massive. This is historic that we even are turning in a direction of decreasing climate emissions. So let's not underplay how important that significant change is. And yes when we get a future opportunity to review how we are going I do hope that we will have absolutely set ourselves at least on the path and then can accelerate even further.We must absolutely have a Tiriti–centred approach to all of this work. The fruits of the most enduring plans are—and I acknowledge Te Paati Māori and my colleague Debbie Ngarewa-Packer—in the leadership of indigenous people all around the world and most certainly tangata whenua who are already leading the way. As the Green Party co-leader I uphold that approach for this work. We have to remember that this historic moment is significant and that we need to all pull together to ensure that future Budgets are set with even more acceleration in mind. That is the biggest safety protection that we can give for today and for our mokopuna to come. Kia ora tātou.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): I call Barbara Kuriger—five minutes."