Ghahraman Golriz; Salesa JennyGOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. I will begin—as we all have in this House—by acknowledging those lives lost as a result of the extreme weather events of recent weeks but also those who have lost so much and are in the midst of that loss right now.I know that the anxiety we experienced in Tāmaki-makau-rau was as a result of the extreme experience of the floods where we were caught off guard—well many of us certainly were—and the impact was felt so so deeply as part of that shock and then to wait at home with our go bags for the cyclone to come. That anxiety—that climate anxiety as we have an entire generation call it now—is part of the DNA of our nation right now and it will be going forward. So I just want to acknowledge that and that there are victims still living with that uncertainty now.But I do want to also acknowledge that this is actually part of a global stress. We are experiencing an existential crisis much like the COVID pandemic but one that the Island nations around us as we sit in the Pacific community have been telling us about for years. We know that there are small island atolls that have already been evacuated over the past decade as a whole community to bigger islands. We know and we learnt as part of a visit just last year by our Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee that even in Fiji—one of the largest of the Pacific Islands and the most stable of economies—multiple islands and dozens of villages have been moved already as a result of rising seas. So the evacuations the loss of home the loss of lives the uncertainty that we have experienced at an extreme level this month has been experienced by our Pacific Island community for years. And they have been raising the alarm bells for years and years in global forums.New Zealand wasn't much of a leader in terms of global policy when it came to health equity with COVID although we had a great response here for us. My hope as a Green is that we recognise the global character of climate crisis. The idea of climate justice requires us to be a bold voice for climate mitigation right now—we finally learnt—but also that prevention stuff; that we stand with our Asia-Pacific neighbours; that we recognise that the floods in Pakistan that were incredible in the images that we saw and the devastation are a reflection of what we're experiencing right now; that the lack of resiliency in Syria and Turkey who are experiencing extreme devastation as a result of earthquakes right now is a reflection of what could happen here if we don't build back resiliently; but that we need to do that as a global community that none of us are in fact going to be OK if some of us are struggling that equality is part of the climate response and that the time to be bold for both global equality and climate action is now.I met a couple of years ago—before the COVID crisis when travel was possible—the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston and he'd given himself as part of his mandate to look into extreme poverty the mandate to look at climate change and the impact on poverty. He had found such extreme risk for a rise in poverty and the devastation of climate change as an impact on both raising levels of poverty in the global sphere and also impacting those already in poverty that he called it a risk of climate apartheid".So our response needs to be fulsome. It needs to be bold and it needs to reflect our experience as a Pacific nation—one that knows the impacts of climate change right now and has been warned about it for many years before now.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): The next call is a split call."