Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Mr Chair. It's a great pleasure to stand and to have a conversation across the floor in regard to the appropriations. Just in response to the member Sarah Dowie in regard to Vote Conservation: I am very excited about what is happening in the conservation space—very excited.Hon Scott Simpson: Say it like you mean it. Say it with some passion.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Very very excited! How's that? So $181 million in the next four years—$181 million—that is the largest increase in the Department of Conservation's (DOC's) budget since 2002. We are backing nature. I'm just going to read some facts: $81 million to boost landscape-scale predator control; $76 million for DOC biodiversity initiatives across land fresh water and marine ecosystems; $16.2 million for DOC to strengthen core capacity—that means more people on the ground working with those volunteers out there in the community working alongside those volunteers—$5.5 million to enable better visitor management because we have more visitors coming to this country than we have people living here now; and $2.6 million to fund the better protection of the unique landscape and biodiversity of the Mackenzie Basin which has been neglected by the past Government. But I'm not here to talk about just that; I'm here to talk about climate change.Climate change is in fact the most serious issue I believe that we are facing and I am pleased to hear the member Sarah Dowie talk about partnerships because we surely need the party across the benches to be in partnership with us around climate change. Climate change is a serious issue. I come from Tauranga. My city will be devastated if we continue to allow climate change to exist. We need across this House to act and I believe that we have put together a wonderful forward-thinking brave plan in order to fix the issue. So we are taking the environment and the protection of our environment as a priority.We have truly shown that the safeguarding of our systems of nature is really important. Our goal is to improve the living standards and well-being of every person in this country. The environment appropriation represents 18 percent of the vote—$147 million. This is a Government which has put its money where its mouth is. We have three priorities for the environment: climate change fresh water and urban development. These three things are really important. Do the members here recall as children swimming in fresh water? Swimming in lakes? I certainly do recall that. Wadeable rivers and lakes is not a standard we aspire to on the side of the House. We are keen and will work across all of Government in order to fix this. We will not stand for any further degradation of our water and it will be swimmable within a generation. That is what we want to do. We will fund that. We've put $42 million towards that. We haven't changed the standards of what clean water means; we've actually committed to making a change.In my very short amount of time—I obviously got a bit passionate about that.Hon Dr David Clark: And excited!ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: And excited—and excited! I would just like to say that climate change is crucial to us all across this House. We invite the members across the House to come with us around zero carbon and climate change. We invite you all—all of us here—because we don't have a Planet B. Thank you.