Brooking RachelRACHEL BROOKING (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. After what's been a rather energised start to this debate and then we've had some assertions of too much lobbying from dairy farmers—an interesting interesting afternoon in the House.But I am quite keen to talk about this report of the Environment Committee. I'm very proud to be the deputy chair on the Environment Committee. Of course the report is about this document and I am—for anyone reading in Hansard—waving about the first emissions reduction plan: Te hau mārohi ki anamata—Towards a productive sustainable and inclusive economy. Of course the emissions reduction plan is a requirement of the Climate Change Response Act and that Act requires us to be at zero carbon by 2050—and I acknowledge the previous National speaker Todd Muller and his involvement in that legislation—and of course we want to reduce biogenic methane by 24 to 47 percent.There's some terms that come up in this report that are used quite often we've heard ERP—emissions reduction plan—and that is in implementing the budgets. The legislation requires the Environment Committee to examine those budgets and we decided as a committee to the budgets—that's just a couple of numbers—that we actually want to look at the plan and that is what we did. This plan is different from the NDC—which is the nationally determined contribution—it's a different measure and does involve offshore mitigation which this plan does not. Other terms that come up are: the CERF—the Climate Emergency Response Fund—so that was $2.9 billion in this budget; and then there's GHG—greenhouse gases emissions. In New Zealand we've got carbon that's about 44 percent; nitrous oxide 11 percent; then we've got both methane from gas and biogenic methane and they're quite different things that's another about 44 percent; and then there's fluoridated gas as well at around 2 percent.So we're trying to reduce all of that. It's important also to think about what is net and what is gross. Again I acknowledge and was very happy to hear Todd Muller speak about the importance of reducing gross emissions and that of course we can't just rely on the emissions trading scheme (ETS). Because the ETS is all about offsetting the pollution that you are doing when it comes to carbon not biogenic methane—that is not in the ETS—we really want to focus on these gross emissions and how do we reduce our carbon emissions. Those are through a whole lot of complementary provisions. That is really the focus of both the ERP and the committee's report back although both the ERP and the committee's report back do have sections on that pricing.I do very quickly want to thank the help that we had from Matthew Cowie and Andrew McMillian also our officials and the clerks as well as our advisers.In the ERP there's 300 actions and these are all at different stages. Some of them are to investigate different things like a circular economy and some of them are projects which have already had budget bids. So there's a whole lot of different information sitting behind them. There is 16 different agencies involved in producing it and now we have a new Climate Change Chief Executives Board which covers six ministries.So why do we have the ERP? It's because we need to reduce our emissions desperately and as I said the ETS is important but we can't have it alone. And because that ETS is about new trees the sequestration that do—and we heard recently from the Leader of the Opposition that we can just count what oceans have.Todd Muller: No—seaweed and oceans.RACHEL BROOKING: Of course the oceans already exist so it's important when are talking about this we're talking about new things. I hear the member opposite say that would be seaweeds and oceans. That is right that this—those new ways to sequester—is important for us to learn about and to put into our policies but we can't just say that something that's already existing that's out there that's the way to deal with our emissions.So what are all these emissions—and I've spent too much time. I do have pages here of things to talk about in terms of energy transport waste—my colleague Angie Warren-Clark hears a lot about that—building and lessons that we can learn. So I'll just very quickly say that it's important when we're thinking about energy that we remember that electricity is not all of our energy. We have electricity most of which is renewable but we've got a whole lot of other energy as well in terms of fossil fuel and gas and we want to make as much of that as possible renewable from electricity. So that's a target of 50 percent total final energy renewable by 2035. Mr Speaker thank you.