Woods MeganDr MEGAN WOODS (Labour—Wigram): It is my pleasure to follow the Minister for the Environment and to respond to some of those things the Minister said. He said he wanted to look to the evidence and to look to the science and said that is what his Government did. He said it places great store in the experts so I would like to refer to the recent OECD report that came out on how New Zealand is doing in this area of the environment in the area of climate change. The Minister talked about the Government's ambitions around having renewable energy—laudable ambitions and ones that I support—but they are not enough on their own.I refer to the report that Simon Upton presented not long ago. He said: Having largely decarbonised its power generation New Zealand needs to ensure its climate policies are effective in curbing emissions in all sectors notably transport and agriculture." It goes on: "With respect to agriculture which accounts for 49% of emissions—the highest share in the OECD—the report suggests … incorporating emissions from agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme". So yes we do have a comprehensive emissions trading scheme—thank you Hon David Parker the architect of that scheme. But is that scheme as comprehensive as it was meant to be? No because we have left 49 percent of our emissions out of that scheme and this is a Government that refuses to even look at bringing it in—to look at the evidence and to listen to the science in ways that it could be done. The science community is giving that very clear message.What did Budget 2017 deliver in terms of climate policy? Well there was a $4 million increase for one of the greatest challenges for humankind at the moment. This is a Government that allocated an extra 4 million bucks to continue its work of low ambition and is not even meeting those targets. Were there plans in there to have a climate commission that would put together carbon budgets and finally do something to put New Zealand on a pathway to have the net zero carbon economy that we require under the Paris Agreement? No there was no such allocation in this Budget. So when the Minister says that we can look at the country and what it is achieving it is simply not achieving.He then talked about the fact that this is a Government that does not think that President Trump should have withdrawn from the Paris Agreement. Well on this issue too this Government lacks the moral courage to show leadership. When it had the opportunity—when its leader Bill English had the opportunity—to sit opposite the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and tell him that that is what New Zealanders thought he gave it away. He did not even bring up the fact that the US had just withdrawn from the Paris Agreement despite it being only days after that action had been taken. Andrew Little took that opportunity. Andrew Little sat opposite the Secretary of State and told the Secretary New Zealand Labour's opinion—what that kind of lack of leadership in the world felt like to us as New Zealanders and to us as a party.So for this National Government to claim any kind of leadership when it comes to climate change is just simply a joke. It is a low-ambition party with no plan of even how to reach those low-ambition targets. There is an extra 4 million bucks in the Budget for the greatest crisis facing our planet and this is a Government that thinks it is doing enough. It has got a scheme in place that its members say is the most comprehensive. Well it should be. If it had been implemented in the way it was planned to be by David Parker then actually it would be a tool in the fight against climate change—if we included agriculture—but this Government will not even consider that.There is strong evidence for how we could do that. What those members say is that they are going to keep pumping money into science on agricultural emissions. This is good but this simply will not solve 49 percent of our emissions. This is a Budget that has failed in leadership on climate change and it is a Government that lacks the kind of fortitude that we need in order to face the challenges such as climate change in the 21st century."