Stanford Erica; Rurawhe AdrianERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): Thank you Mr Speaker. I am so happy to rise today to speak in support of the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill. The process that we've taken to get to where we are today has been long but it has been extremely rewarding. Today I am very proud that we will pass this crucial piece of legislation. The passing of this bill today will see us begin a journey—a journey of decarbonising our economy and shifting towards a greener and more sustainable future for our country. It is the work that the National Party has done over the last year or so in a collaborative and cross-party manner that means we will take this journey in a more sensible and more balanced way that will see us play our part in terms of the global response without compromising the ability of Kiwi families to thrive.While there will be compromises along the way there will also be opportunities. We must move at a pace that balances those compromises and those opportunities in a manner that will see us continue to prosper as a nation. I must at this point pay tribute to my colleagues Todd Muller and Scott Simpson and our leader Simon Bridges. The work that they have put in over the last year in negotiating with the Hon James Shaw has been nothing but exceptional. We are in the position we are today to vote for this bill because of the work that they put in. In particular they put forward our five guiding principles: that we must be science based technology driven that our response must be in keeping with our global trading partners that we must offer long-term incentives to businesses and consumers and that we want to ensure that the economic impact is minimised. We can see these reflected in some part in the bill in sections 5L and 5Z whereby the commission and the Minister must take into account our principles and in particular the focus on technology.When it comes to technology we have argued strenuously that we must not kneecap our industries where the technology does not exist for them to be able to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions. We must not be out so far in front—contrary to what the Prime Minister has said today—that we sink entire industries. We know that there are many businesses out there who are already taking steps to reduce their emissions and the results are quite incredible and we must support them.I was visiting a concrete company Atlas Concrete just last week. The concrete industry for example has reduced their carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent since 2005 and that is despite an increase of 13 percent in production. But there is no available technology at the moment that will allow them to replace the process which produces these emissions. While this technology may be available in the next 15 years or so we cannot afford to kneecap an industry who is already doing as much as they possibly can because that means all we will do is import this product from overseas and the carbon leakage associated with this will increase global emissions.Similarly with agriculture we must acknowledge that our dairy meat and fibre that we produce in this country is produced with the lowest emissions of anywhere in the world. We must back our farmers and our food producers who are doing all of the good work. We must take a technology-led approach and move at a pace that sees our farmers continue to innovate and to reduce their emissions as technology allows them to.This bill sets up an independent Climate Change Commission with experts who will advise successive Governments so that Ministers can set carbon budgets. And these budgets will provide a stepping stone to a zero carbon future. The idea of this Climate Change Commission has always been broadly supported by the National Party but the devil is in the detail as it always is. While we recognise that this legislation is not perfect there are areas that are required to have some improvement but this is not compelling enough for us to vote against the bill today. The issue is far too important.We will commit to making changes in our first 100 days. Our approach today in voting for this bill is entirely in keeping with the climate change - related actions we've taken under our last Government. We insulated half a million homes. We introduced the emissions trading scheme in New Zealand. We exempted electric cars from road user charges. We signed up to the Paris accord and most importantly we took New Zealand from 65 percent renewable energy to 85 percent. I am proud that we have stuck to our principles and that we have worked constructively with James Shaw on this bill and the changes that we will make when we are elected to Government next year will lead us to that sustainable future that we all want. I am very pleased to commend this bill to the House.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I understand this is a split call. I call Chlöe Swarbrick—five minutes.