Dowie Sarah; Rurawhe AdrianSARAH DOWIE (National—Invercargill): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise in support of this bill in its third reading. I rise in support of our leader the Hon Simon Bridges and I rise in support of the National Party that is known as pragmatic environmentalists. I am very pleased that I rise in support of our position that while we support the broad framework of this bill that while we support the formation of a climate change commission which is expert-led to provide advice to successive Governments on carbon emissions and budgets within our first 100 days of a National-led Government we will make seven changes to the bill which will strengthen it and take all of New Zealand along with us. I want to first of all start with congratulating the Hon James Shaw. We both came in in 2014 and I have watched him progress and I can say that Mr James Shaw is tenacious and he has drive and passion in the area of climate change. So thank you the Hon James Shaw for your driving passion in this bill. I'd also like to thank the honourable Kennedy Graham. I remember going to a dinner as a young backbencher in 2014 with him and the Hon Dr Nick Smith and sitting there and listening to climate change banter and feeling absolutely out of my depth which—it's quite ironic that I now am the spokesperson for conservation and was on the Environment Committee being thrown into the area of climate change at the mercy of the officials.I thank the officials for their patience. I also want to take the opportunity to thank on this side Todd Muller my colleague—again another 2014er who started with the spokesperson for climate change role—for his patience working through all of this information and for his pragmatism. And then to Scott Simpson for the speed in which he took up the Opposition spokesperson's role and for him digesting and processing the information as only a National Party MP could and coming up with a very pragmatic and practical way forward. And then finally to the Hon Simon Bridges for his steel in staying true to our principles that when we think about the environment and what we do with the environment that we use good science and we robustly debate and again that we take all New Zealanders with us taking into account economic environmental and social effects as a whole.So I am again pleased to be standing here in support but pleased as to the National Party's position that within our first 100 days of taking the Treasury benches we'll make changes to cover off a number of concerns that we have. I want to talk about the seven changes that we would make. I have traversed in my speeches in the committee of the whole House and the second reading concerns about pace. What I would say to the member opposite who talked about moving either too slow or moving too fast is that it's not about that; again it's about taking all New Zealanders with us at a pace that New Zealand is comfortable with taking into account the ability for New Zealand to produce food taking into account the social effects of too much planting of pine trees in our rural area—destroying our arable land—and taking into account the effects of those that live in cities that live rurally that live in the provinces and the economics that go with that.So our first change would be that the target for biological methane reduction be recommended by the independent Climate Change Commission and why wouldn't it? This is a group of experts to lead discussions and advice on climate change. So we want that to be recommended based on good science and robustly communicated to us.That the bill again makes it clear as in the Paris Agreement that food production is not threatened. As I said before I've traversed this many times in my speeches and as we've heard from speakers on this side: New Zealanders are the best food producers in the world we produce it efficiently and we are reputable in our production—and therefore that should not change. We need to strengthen provisions that consider the level of action being taken by other countries and allow targets to be adjusted to ensure that we remain in step with the international community. Again that's the pace at which we move. We don't want to be disadvantaging New Zealand when other countries are not doing the same. Yes we want to do our part. Yes we want to be responsible. But again we need to move at a pace that technology is available. We do not want to be exporting jobs and livelihoods instead of exporting good food—or in my case in Southland the cleanest aluminium in the world.We need to strengthen the provisions to ensure that the commission considers economic impacts when providing advice on targets and emission reductions—for some reason the other side thinks that that is somehow dirty; it's not. When you're talking about the most vulnerable in our society we need to take them along too—and they would be hit by some of the impacts and changes of climate change as well. So let's have a think about the economics across the board across sectors and across New Zealand. That the bill ensures that the commission considers the appropriate use of forestry offsets and that the bill has regard for the carbon sink represented by crops riparian planting and other farm biomass. Again it was traversed quite heavily in the committee of the whole House that we don't want vast plantations of Pinus radiata—that would destroy rural communities and certainly we don't just want to be reliant on Pinus radiata when we have a third of New Zealand already covered in some fantastic native bush. All of those natural landscapes need to be taken into account as well. That emissions budgets be split between biogenic methane and carbon dioxide as recommended by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment and that is all based on long-lived verses short-lived gases and hence should be dealt with separately.And finally that the bill includes a greater commitment to investment in innovation and research and development to find new solutions for reducing emissions. And that comes back to technology—again that we make sure that we have technology advancement available before we move too quick and at a pace that could see jobs and livelihoods exported offshore.It is extremely disappointing that the so-called and self-professed champions of the regions New Zealand First did not support our Supplementary Order Papers that detailed all of those seven commitments that would have strengthened the bill and made it more robust and made it easier for the commission to take into account those points which have been so eloquently made by this side of the House.As I conclude in my final minute of this speech while the Hon Scott Simpson looked forward with hope I also look forward with hope. But I finish with the record—and a record of a National-led Government that we continue to build on—in that it should be noted that it was a National-led Government that signed us up to the Paris Agreement that it was a National-led Government that stabilised emissions while we were in Government that it was a National-led Government that increased our renewable energy profile from 60 percent to 80 percent that it was a National-led Government that invested heavily in electric vehicle initiatives and that it was a National-led Government that invested hundreds of millions into our natural landscape to allow it to flourish and absorb carbon. We will continue to build on that record in support of reducing climate change emissions.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): This is a split call. I call Jenny Marcroft—five minutes.