Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Madam Chair. It looked like you were looking somewhere else. I just wanted to pick up absolutely on—Hon Scott Simpson: Desperately trying to spare us.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Whoops. Ha ha!Dr Deborah Russell: That wasn't very nice.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: That wasn't very nice the Hon Scott Simpson—that wasn't very nice at all. I'll carry on. I just wanted to pick up on the member David Seymour's recommendation—Chlöe Swarbrick: Don't do that.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: —around the removal of—or just in terms of refuting it actually—new sections 5ZD 5ZE and 5ZF set out in clause 8. Particularly this is following on from the conversation from my colleague Dr Duncan Webb. It is around new section 5ZE Commission to advise on emissions reduction plans". Now this is keeping in mind that the member wanted to have this removed.Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Thank you Madam Chair. So before the break I was just talking in regards to new sections 5ZD 5ZE and 5ZF. In particular I want to just draw the committee's attention and those who may be fascinated and listening at home to a part of the legislation that I think is particularly useful and in fact counters some of the hysteria we have heard in this Chamber tonight about closing down industries and not taking into account people really.I'd just like to talk about new section 5ZD the requirement for an emissions reduction plan. At subsection (3) of new section 5ZD I will just read out this part "The plan must include—(a) sector-specific policies to reduce emissions and increase removals; and (b) a multi-sector strategy to meet emissions budgets and improve the ability of those sectors to adapt to the effects of climate change; and"—and this is one that we had lots of debate on when we were coming to this piece of legislation; it specifically addresses the concerns that some industry may have—"(c) a strategy to mitigate the impacts that reducing emissions and increasing removals will have on workers regions iwi and Māori and wider communities including the funding for any mitigation action; and (d) any other policies or strategies that the Minister considers necessary." We also included employers in that aspect so that the Minister is not only going to be looking at how to achieve these emission plans but also very clearly taking into account the needs of our people and our industries as we move forward. So I wanted to just address that. I do say to the member David Seymour by removing that clause in its entirety we remove the ability to focus and look clearly at the impacts that the community may have.Now I'd also like to now come back to Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 401 which is around food production. In my last contribution I had begun to speak on food waste. It may surprise this committee to know that if food waste was an emissions country it would be the third largest in the world behind the USA and China. So food waste contributes a huge amount to methane in particular. It is important that when we look at food production that we actually look across entire systems of food. So one of the things that I do think it's important to say is that the Supplementary Order Paper 401 doesn't address the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience. We have to lower greenhouse gas emissions but we have to do it in a way that doesn't threaten food production. So when we have 40 percent of the food being wasted in this world then I think we have a little bit of room. Thank you Madam Chair."