Wade-Brown CeliaCELIA WADE-BROWN (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. This bill enables the Minister to change the clean vehicle standard carbon dioxide targets through regulations without consultation. Is he likely to strengthen or weaken those targets or potentially leave them exactly the same? We don't know and the importers don't know either. It seems anti-democratic to leave those changes to the whim of the Minister of Transport who has consistently refused to answer during earlier debate who will be giving advice on what those targets should be. Random comments from donors and voters probably don't really match the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment the Climate Change Commission chair the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research scientists that have probably just been sacked or all of the other scientists.Simon Court: They've been replaced with AI—it's much cheaper and faster.CELIA WADE-BROWN: And it gives you the shitty little lies that you want as well. [Interruption]DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yeah all right. Well there has been one or two words creeping into Parliament the last couple of days; we'll just calm down and perhaps not use some of those words.CELIA WADE-BROWN: OK I shan't mention artificial intelligence any more then Madam Chair. Let's give the certainty of direction to the vehicle industry because this kind of Government policy has a really significant impact on the vehicle market on what's brought in here. That lack of any emissions standards—I remember when garages were about to bring in emissions testing equipment when they would have done it during the normal warrant of fitness process. Quite a lot of garages made that investment and then—good idea evaporated. This country's average carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles are among the highest in the world and the rate of improvement needs to be as rapid as it was after the first introduction of these targets. Look the Government's decision to—Simon Court: Honestly these people used to be opposed to GE—I mean come on.Hon Julie Anne Genter: Just ignore him.CELIA WADE-BROWN: Who? I didn't hear anything.DEPUTY SPEAKER: It's not related to the bill; don't worry about it. Keep going.CELIA WADE-BROWN: The Government's decision to delay the entry of agriculture into the emissions trading scheme puts even more pressure on the transport—[Interruption] When the Clean Car Standard was introduced several submitters at select committee—do you remember what select committee was for bills?—wanted the targets to be more ambitious. Many of those submitters might've hoped that they could educate the members sitting in the select committee but there is not a great deal of evidence of that.But have we stopped having a climate emergency? I think the people in Wairoa Heretaunga Haumoana would say the climate emergency is here it is now and if it's this bad now it's going to be a lot worse in the next 20 30 40 years. Whose grandchildren are you condemning to coastal retreat from their much loved homes? We need to adapt for sure to what can't be avoided but we have a moral obligation to do what we can and the ridiculous thing is that this is a win-win-win opportunity: you increase the targets you save people money you clean up the air and you make us more productive altogether.This Government seems to me very focused on trade-offs. It's either the environment or the economy; it's either Freddie the Frog" or the motorway. Well I think you can actually put them together and have a productive economy.Dan Bidois: We agree with you wholeheartedly.CELIA WADE-BROWN: I think I might like to have that on record that I'm agreed with wholeheartedly. Thank you.DEPUTY SPEAKER: It's on record—it's on the Hansard; it'll be on record.CELIA WADE-BROWN: So I just want to say: for what reason rather than private lobbying instead of public scrutiny does this Minister want to amend the targets on his own?"