Swarbrick Chlöe; Rurawhe AdrianCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green): E Te Māngai tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou e Te Whare. We are in a climate crisis. If we don't get this right nothing else matters. This is where we draw the line. Aotearoa New Zealand is a Pacific nation. We are in the top 10 nations for pollution per capita. Our diplomats and our negotiators are seen as amongst the best in the world. We are responsible and we must be responsible.How many world leaders for how many decades have seen and known what is coming but have decided that it is more politically expedient to keep it behind closed doors? My generation and the generations after me do not have that luxury. In the year 2050 I will be 56 years old yet right now the average age of this 52nd Parliament is 49 years old.Hon Member: That's impossible.CHLÖE SWARBRICK: OK boomer.Current political institutions have proven themselves incompetent at thinking outside of a short political term. Change is so regularly sacrificed for power. Slogans are easy but this stuff—this action—is hard. Climate action cannot be sacrificed any more for political convenience. Climate change is a deeply inconvenient truth. If climate action is indeed our nuclear-free moment it should be and it must be transformational.This Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill is our starting line. On the Environment Committee I sat with members across this House as we heard the call from the majority of over 800 New Zealanders in person and over 10000 in writing asking this Parliament to get it together and to get it right. Many asked that we pull targets forward others that we didn't split our gas targets. As I put to many of those submitters if I can be straight up about the problem there ambition and consensus sit on opposite sides of the see-saw in this bizarre place. Prioritising one means risking some of the other.The Greens want more. We recognise the need to go further and to go faster but we are eight of 120 MPs in this House and to keep momentum up we need more of us. If you marched in the streets it is time to get political. This bill represents the greatest consensus that we have managed to reach in this Parliament and across this Government as a blueprint for climate action.On that point I must weave in the comments by National Party's spokesperson for climate change who stated it shouldn't be politicians [who] set the targets." Those being the methane targets. The Hon Scott Simpson called for targets to be set by an expert-led independent science-led commission. As it turns out there is room for agreement there. Targets should be science-led. But more than that politicians—who my other colleague from the Environment Committee Sarah Dowie noted just before are not climate change experts—should be and must be bound by the science. That is exactly why on page 5 of the Government's commentary in the committee report on this bill I saw it stated and I quote "The Green Party member notes the significant number of submissions which proposed that the best way to produce scientifically robust enduring and depoliticised emissions budgets is to empower the Commission to set emissions budgets itself rather than to advise the Executive and supports this proposal."The only reason that we would keep the commission advisory only is because there is an option to ignore that advice. We have heard that this law will impact our economy particularly from members of the Opposition. You know what else will impact the economy? Climate change. You know if you are worried about the economic impacts of our climate change response just wait until I tell you about the economic impacts of climate change. And regardless of whether we change our climate is.Today is both Guy Fawkes and the commemoration of the invasion of Parihaka by colonial forces which as we know was met by a deep strength and peaceful resistance. Well we're not quite blowing up Parliament today but I am reminded of the Pacific Climate Warriors chant at the front of the school strike for climate only a few weeks ago: "We are not drowning. We are fighting."I want to bring into focus a line that has been ringing in my head while we've been considering this legislation from the submitter Kelly O'Neill who said "We are far too late for this to be easy." Colleagues we all know that if you have come here to make easy decisions you don't belong here. The young people standing outside this Chamber today have stated "We fought in the street so you can fight in your seat."ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Order! The member's time has expired."