Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Tēnā koe Mr Chair. It's a pleasure to rise and talk about our annual reviews. It's a real pleasure because our Prime Minister has said that the environment is our nuclear-free moment for this generation. In fact if I reflect on that I think that climate change and the environment is a much more serious issue than what we faced when we stood on the right side of eliminating nuclear weapons and allowing them to come here.I am really excited to be here today because I note that today we had the biodiversity report. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has just come in today and reported that there are 1 million species threatened or at risk of extinction globally and 4000 of those species are in New Zealand—4000 people. That's why I'm really delighted that our Government has turned around the $200 million in cumulative cuts under National around conservation. That's why I'm really delighted that we've invested $186 million to enhance biodiversity and to control and eradicate predators. I'm really pleased about that because when we think about what has happened and that we are so very rare in where we sit in this world—we have so many rare species or so many species that only exist here.So I'm really really happy that we're actually doing something significant. I'm really also excited that we've allocated $19 million from the Provincial Growth Fund to develop innovative approaches to expand predator control. While that may sound from the Opposition like we've said that we're not looking at options we actually are looking at options. We have no mandate from the community around genetic modification—we have no mandate. If that's the mandate that the Opposition thinks they have then maybe they should write a paper on it and suggest it. I'm absolutely delighted that across the plethora of work that we are doing we have absolutely managed to systematically work in a way that ensures that we're going to try and get swimmable rivers—not wadeable rivers swimmable rivers. We're going to be looking across the environment about ways to protect and ensure under the Resource Management Act (RMA) that our people have the opportunity to have their say which of course was rolled back previously. So here's a little bit of progress to date: we have no new offshore oil and gas permits. Now you will all remember—sorry Madam Chairperson everyone will recall—Tim van de Molen: How many species does that save from endangerment?ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: You will recall—how many species does that save? You're asking across the floor how many species does the change of—Tim van de Molen: The ban of oil of gas. ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Banning oil and gas—absolutely. What happens is that when we have global warming—which is a result of oil and gas—we therefore have species extinction. It's the science and it is well understood. So we have no new offshore oil and gas permits; we have a zero carbon bill under consultation and we look forward to that coming to this House; we have the $100 million Green Investment Fund; we're countering myrtle rust and kauri dieback disease—all of us here appreciate that if our taonga species such as kauri go extinct then we have a catastrophic disaster occurring in our native forests. So it is with great pleasure that I sit now—