Swarbrick ChlöeCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Co-Leader—Green): E te Māngai tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou e te Whare. Just wanted to on behalf of the Greens acknowledge the Minister of Climate Change for continuing particularly the work of the Hon James Shaw in a cross-partisan manner on this incredibly important piece of work. The Greens of course will be supporting this notice of motion when it comes to referring this work to the Finance and Expenditure Committee—as they've just been stating very loudly across the House a great committee that Finance and Expenditure Committee.But if we're to reflect on why it is that this is so fundamentally important to New Zealanders just over a year ago we were hammered in the North Island by deadly and devastating climate change - charged weather events and this followed so-called unprecedented so-called one-in-100-year weather events that had battered Northland the East Coast the West Coast and the top of the North Island every single year in recent living history. We are living in an age of consequences and New Zealanders are still grappling with the clean-up of many of those climate change - charged weather events dealing with insurance issues and dealing with disconnected infrastructure. This of course is incredibly important to reflect upon in those terms of reference at the Finance and Expenditure Committee.There can be no work in this place that is more important than addressing that existential climate crisis and while I commend the Minister for taking up that work as progressed by the Hon James Shaw on climate adaptation we would continue to encourage him to go a step further in working across the aisle on the issue of climate mitigation because obviously we can't solely focus on adaptation; we also have to pull our weight and do our part when it comes to dragging down the emissions curve.I might also make the point that good mitigation is also adaptation when we're talking about how we design our towns and cities and how we design infrastructure and transport systems that are resilient. The really cool thing about that that kind of climate action is the massive co-benefit for improving people's lives so that they are able to get around and interact with their communities in more nature-based communities and spaces. To that effect we also need to outline that getting a new bucket—that is to adapt to the changing climate—doesn't actually mean all too much if you're not also focused on stopping the increased leakage.We commend this move from the Minister and would just like to shout out to all of the communities who may be tuned in to Parliament TV on a Thursday afternoon to make it clear to them that this is their time to have their voices heard because there are also some critical discussions that have to be made about who bears the cost as the Hon Dr Megan Woods was saying. As we've seen climate change - charged weather events also amplify inequities that are already baked into the way that our economic system works so we need to be having these really critical discussions about the interface with Te Tiriti o Waitangi about the interface with whether we're going to take the same approach to those who have baches or those marae that are on coastlines for example.So once again just wanted to invite New Zealanders across the country—iwi and hapū businesses and otherwise—to engage in the select committee process at that great committee that is the Finance and Expenditure Committee and invite the Minister to go a step further in cross-party work on mitigation.