Bridges SimonHon SIMON BRIDGES (National—Tauranga): There are many wonderful things about the modern world that we live in. One of the bad ones though is that if you say something with enough feeling these days it's somehow automatically true and valid whether you've done anything about it or not. Emoting is mistaken for actual actions. Feelings and chats like the Prime Minister's very diplomatic language the dialogues we have—they are mistaken for outcomes. Well when I was growing up there was a saying: actions speak louder than words. Let your deeds do the talking. In three years on climate change nothing's happened. Literally James Shaw passed a law to set up a committee. It's what we've done. We voted for it—I mean it's a nice committee. It's a structure; I accept that. There's been an oil and gas ban which has perversely resulted in more coal imported into New Zealand and emissions going up. Literally I defy the members on the other side to tell us one other thing in three years that has happened that has made a difference.It's not surprising therefore that in the last three years emissions have gone backwards. They've gone up. They criticised our target when Tim Groser and I went to Paris and signed the deal but emissions have gone up. We've had emoting we've had feelings and we've had nothing else. I don't like to be cynical but hold huge hope for the next three years. What's so frustrating is as Stuart Smith has said the actions we should take are practical and with respect to the Prime Minister and the Labour Party and the Green Party they're obvious. But Government's not interested in the practical sensible stuff right before its eyes.In the last National Government I was for a time Minister of energy a transport and associate climate change Minister. I wanted to be climate change Minister but Paula Bennett stole it off me when she worked out I wanted it. I had in my office in the—Hon Aupito William Sio: She's gone now.Hon SIMON BRIDGES: Well you know there's always a chance to have a little resentment about something right? Let's be honest. I had a chart a pie chart in my office—very large—and it literally just divided the emissions of New Zealand up into sections. My portfolios made up half broadly speaking—the maths isn't exactly right. A quarter is transport a quarter is energy and of course the other half is effectively the primary sector. In energy the reality is it's not electricity. We've got the gains from that at 85 percent renewables in electricity; 65 percent—85 percent while National was in office.Hon Marama Davidson: Yeah we still need the rest of energy.Hon SIMON BRIDGES: By the way it's going backwards now Marama Davidson. It's at I think 82 percent and I blame your gas ban for that. The Government's mucked around with the market in that area.I know David Parker's keen and other Ministers are keen on this idea of an Onslow project: effectively a Muldoonist think-big project which will waste several billion dollars—they say four; I'd say more—on a project that really isn't where the real game is because we're so close to 100 percent in electricity anyway. We'd be better frankly to put the money into incentives for electric vehicles in this country than do the Onslow project. But the real answer is well part of it in energy is in industrial heat and I acknowledge the Government's doing some things—some timid things some cautious things but some things there.Then you've got a quarter in transport. Nothing's happening—nothing. We went into election 2017 with a number of rail projects: electrification third main line—none of those things have started. In fact in electric vehicles the only things today the Government is doing are things that I talked about and had planned for. Then in primary production here's a practical solution: rather than talking down to farmers how about updating our biotech regulations investing in technology and innovation so that actually we meaningfully do something about emissions in this country. Today we've got an emergency where all we do is chat. Actions speak louder than words.