Kanongata'a-Suisuiki Anahila; Dean JacquiANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI (Labour): Fãiåk se'ea. Noa'ia 'e mạuri. It's always an honour and a privilege to speak in this House but especially on this special debate on the Government's motion on New Zealand's first emissions budgets under the climate response Act. I want to acknowledge the climate change Minister James Shaw for his due diligence in terms of his leadership in channelling this very important issue into the House. I agree with Minister Megan Woods that it is achievable the emissions budget is achievable.Before I continue my speech I just want to remind us what the budget actually is. So Minister Shaw tells us that the emissions budgets will operate as stepping stones that will keep us on track to get to our 2050 emissions reductions targets first country in the world to declare 1.5 degrees Celsius to global warming. So Minister Shaw reminded us that in 2019 our emissions in 2019 per year were a megatonne of carbon dioxide equivalent to State house gas emissions of 77.2 megatonne equivalent to greenhouse gases. The first plan looks at us reducing that to 72 and then to 61 megatonne. And in 2035 we are hopeful that we will get to 48 megatonne per year.When we talk about megatonne greenhouse gas emissions what does that look like? Well actually one megatonne is about 8.3 million one-way flights between Wellington and Auckland. So when we put it like that it looks like that and what we are trying to achieve it is massive and it requires action. I want to acknowledge the leadership that we've heard today. It's great that the National Government went to Paris and signed the agreement. We had no plan. So we've come a long way to now agreeing to this. So I just want to thank everybody's leadership in the House.I stand here today it is the Rotuma language week and I want to remind everyone in this House about their percentage of carbon emissions of the Pacific. Saber Salem writes about the Pacific as sinking States. When we talk about the Pacific we talk about the Pacific in one word: Pacific". But actually I want to put it to the record today that the Pacific is 14 countries. It is the Cook Islands the federated States of Marshall Islands Fiji and in Fiji there we have Rotuma Kiribati Nauru Niue Palau PNG the republic of the Marshall Islands Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Last year the Prime Minister the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern and the Minister James Shaw announced $1.3 billion. We quadrupled our support to the Pacific of $1.3 billion for the next four years.We talk about how finally our lived experiences have caught up with what the scientists have told us. Might I say my kāinga in Tonga and in the 14 island States that I have voiced in this House are only really only responsible for 0.03 percent of carbon emissions. Today I'm wearing when we look at me and what I'm wearing today it's called a tēfui from Rotuma. It stands for the seven districts of Rotuma. The flowers represent the seven districts of Rotuma. The name Tuvalu represents the eight islands of Tuvalu. We all remember the Minister of Finance for Tuvalu standing in the ocean delivering his speech because that is the reality of Tuvalu. Everything we do in New Zealand is a stepping stone to the Pacific.We've invested in electric vehicles. We are the market for second-hand vehicles. That second-hand vehicle will be third hand to the Pacific. So everything we do in New Zealand every action in terms of leadership that we conduct in New Zealand will contribute to the Pacific. Might I remind everybody that we are in the Pacific Ocean and that our neighbours our families are living are dying. And I want to say we can go on and say with the other two parties "That's not enough." But I want to acknowledge the Prime Minister. I want to acknowledge the Minister of Climate Change. Action is about leadership. We are finally taking action and I look forward to all New Zealanders being climate change champions. Join the Ministers and we will all be champions. I commend this bill to the House.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Hon Scott Simpson—five minutes."