Pham LanLAN PHAM (Green): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker. Some really cool things happened in 1986 with the origin of this report. Not only was 1986 the year that my twin sister and I were born but it was also the year of the birth of the Environment Act. From what I've heard apparently people didn't get everything right in the 1980s but they got something right in this Act when they mandated the Government and its agencies to ensure a full and balanced consideration of the things that really matter—things like the needs of future generations the intrinsic value of ecosystems and for Te Tiriti principles to be upheld in managing our natural and physical resources or as we understand te taiao or the fundamental basis of life on which we all rely.The directives in the Act captured in this report invite us in this House today not only to address our immediate responses to our climate and ecological crisis but to think more broadly about our actions or rather probably our lack of actions and most importantly to look ahead. And that is just what this report does. It looks forward to 2050 which according to where current Government commitments head us is the point in time when Aotearoa will have reached carbon neutrality. We will have achieved all those breathtakingly wonderous nature goals in te mana o te taiao or our biodiversity strategy and Predator Free 2050 will be our blissful current-day reality. And this will only have been possible by us working together under our foundation of Te Tiriti. But unfortunately with this Government at the reins it looks increasingly unlikely that this beautiful 2050 future is possible. Our current reality is rather painfully set out in this report. It includes the pressures of land-use change invasive species pollution extraction and a dangerously warming climate. Land intensification as outlined has drastically altered our landscapes leaving us with deforestation soil erosion and a decline in our freshwater and marine ecosystems and our biodiversity. We've got urban pollution from our vehicles our industries and our waste-water treatment plants and it's degraded our air our land and our water. That impacts our health and our ability to connect with nature and therefore we must take action to actually care for it and protect it. Our isolated island as we've heard is a biodiversity hotspot and it's something to be celebrated but we know that so many species—4000—are threatened and at risk of extinction. Everything laid out in this report leads to one question: sure we've really screwed things up in the past but why keep deciding to screw things up so badly? Next week this Government will make critical decisions that majorly impact our environment and our existence within it. It's astounding that these decisions look set to favour corporations and lobbyists at the expense of the awesome sustainable future—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Can I pull the member up. You're talking about the Budget and none of us knows what's in it. I think we should be focusing on the long-term briefing. At the outset we said this was not to be a political debate but a long-term vision debate.LAN PHAM: Thank you Madam Speaker. What this report does make clear is that for our rangatahi youth the state of our environment is not a distant concern; it's real to them now. They so clearly know what good decision-making looks like to get us out of this mess and what it doesn't look like.If this Government took their fundamental role of a duty of care for our environment seriously as envisaged back in 1986—and the challenges are so clearly set out in this report—we could ensure that the need or worse the greed of today doesn't compromise the life and the wellbeing of those tomorrow. Put simply there is no planet B. It makes it really clear in this report and we need to voice and acknowledge and act on the critical need to care for ourselves and our environment.