Davidson MaramaHon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence): I'm really proud to stand today as co-leader for the Green Party of Aotearoa and acknowledge and support the progress that has been made so far on climate change on climate action. I acknowledge the Hon James Shaw and his hard work as Minister of Climate Change to lay down the foundations to pull together some of the most impactful action that any Government in Aotearoa has taken in the past 3½ decades. I also know that we need to lift our standards way higher than the work of the past 3½ decades of consecutive Governments because what is before us right now is absolutely urgent and as the independent Climate Commission report says we have to and must take the urgent action now and right now is when we can.But today what I wanted to do was to highlight that it is clear that the Treaty Te Tiriti relationship must underpin all of the work. The Climate Commission themselves have made that very clear. Also the zero carbon legislation which came to be agreed to made it very clear and put in a legal requirement to uphold Te Tiriti. The Climate Commission themselves understand that no work can be enduring no work can be long lasting unless we uphold Te Tiriti. So today I wanted to remind us—remind us—of the indigenous knowledge and leadership that has been at the forefront of strong activism and strong solutions for a cleaner planet that looks after the many. For many many decades we have seen indigenous people around the world and here in Aotearoa right at the forefront of that work. Just recently if we are looking across the seas we can look to the indigenous knowledge of the Aboriginal people who had they been given the proper support and affirmation of their thousands-and-thousands-of-years-old knowledge would have been able to mitigate the abhorrent Australian fires that we saw recently. Again in the Amazon if the indigenous Brazilian peoples and nations of the Amazonian forest had been supported to actually have their land—land back is of course the answer to everything—then we would have also been able to see the protection of the lungs of the planet in those Amazon fires and the destruction that we also saw recently.Here in Aotearoa it has been iwi like Taranaki who have been protecting against the destruction of the moana—the moana the sea which again is a massive carbon-sinking part of the natural world that we also must continue to protect. Also the iwi in my Tai Tokerau north have long been resisting and opposing dirty big oil but have also been creating the solutions and the frameworks that we need to create a low-carbon economy that understands that we need to protect our planet for generations to come but also that we need to form better relationships across us and communities and people for the sort of economy that is going to take care of us better. My people on the East Coast Whānau-a-Apanui and Ngati Porou again were at the forefront of resisting big oil entrenching on to our territory and on to our waters while at the same time opening up marae for crises. In the middle of the Canterbury floods—and part of the indigenous solutions and frameworks that we can all take heed of—marae were opening up to manaaki and support people. In the context of a white supremacist threatening to hurt my people on our marae what do our marae do? They open up. They welcome. They manaaki—what they've been doing for hundreds and hundreds of years. I am here on behalf of the Green Party on behalf of my hapū and iwi to remind us all that we know these solutions these frameworks with the sort of thinking that is going to lead us into the economic transformation that will benefit a wellbeing for our planet for the many and not just the few that have been here all along—have been within Aotearoa the whole time. We have an opportunity. Not only are we all climate Ministers we are all climate MPs. We have an opportunity to forefront that at the work that we are doing. We have an opportunity to finally understand that indigenous knowledge is key to the solutions for our economy for protecting our biodiversity for making sure that all people have what they need not just the few. Thank you Madam Speaker.