Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Fakaalofa lahi atu ki a mutolu oti Madam Speaker. I rise on behalf of the Greens to participate in this debate. I did want to acknowledge the passion of our rural MPs advocating for their constituencies both on this side and that side of the House. As someone that lives in a rural province as well in a rural village as well these are the sorts of issues which come front of mind all the time for me as well.Climate denial has gone; it has left the building. But what we still have now is climate procrastination. We have climate procrastination where folks whether willingly or not willingly or unwittingly are kicking the can so far down the road that we're running out of road. The floods in Pakistan just recently were so severe—so severe—that you could see them from outer space. That's how bad they were. And these erratic weather events are happening all the time. We're having you know 500-year floods every other year. And I'm mindful of all the events that happened in Whakatū our whānau down in Nelson all throughout the Tairāwhiti as well. It's like every other day there's something that's happening with the weather. I mean it was snowing just the other week as well in the middle of autumn. So it's important that we as members of this House do all that we can to actually—instead of listening to the noise the white noise the busyness that we actually listen to the science. Let's listen to the science. That's what's important. And the science is telling us that we actually need to take action right now. That action needs to happen right now.I was just reflecting on a report that just came out from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment where they were talking about offsets. It showed in that report that it would take 6000 square metres of pine forests for us to offset the methane emissions from a single dairy cow and 4000 square metres of pine forests to offset the emissions from a single beef animal. For the rugby fans out there that's the equivalent of a rugby field of pine trees for just two animals—for just two animals. So that tells me—that should tell us—that we can't rely on offsets. That's what the science tells us.And so this proposal that we've been talking about this afternoon—some supporting it some not supporting it—will go in front for public consultation. But at the end of the day what we need to happen is for those emissions to come down—those methane emissions to come down. That's what we should all be aiming for. So there's a bunch of things that we've been advocating for for a while now as Green MPs: making sure that when we put a price on agricultural emissions that it actually comes down as well. And we know because of the Commissioner's report that offsets are not going to do it. Let's look at tradable methane quotas as well; that's something that our Minister for Climate Change James Shaw has been pushing on that the emissions trading scheme (ETS) is not up to it. Let's look at something else to see to make sure that those emissions come down as well. We also want synthetic nitrogen fertiliser brought into the ETS—that causes intensive dairying which contributes to climate change—so making sure that's on there as well we think would help to actually bring down emissions.There's other things as well—for example palm kernel expeller; making sure that we phase that out because the optics of that are just terrible. Whether you want to have an argument about whether it's a product or a by-product or whatever it is contributing to deforestation in places like Indonesia—it's just a bad look. It's a bad look for the industry and a bad look for exports from New Zealand as well. So we need to actually be mindful that we do that as well.We just don't have time and we need more than a groundswell. What we need is a mindswell". So I would invite members from across the House both sides—that's left side right side upside down side—to actually listen to the science and whatever we propose bring those emissions down.I did have a bit of a moment of "Back to the Future" when Kieran McAnulty was speaking because I actually remember being out on the forecourt when Bill English rode up on his tractor. I didn't know what it was all about and I found out about it later and it was protesting against the carbon tax. That was in 2003 I think. Nearly 20 years—20 years. We're at the endgame here folks. Whatever we've got to do we've got to do it now. Thank you Madam Speaker."