Roberts AngelaANGELA ROBERTS (Labour): Kia ora Mr Speaker. Thank you. As we've heard this bill intends to help this nation move towards a rapid reduction in our emissions. We are ambitious and we want a zero-carbon economy. Light vehicles really are the low-hanging fruit. We've already heard the numbers they account for almost two-thirds of our transport emissions. So it is quite right that we aim to incentivise a shift in our behaviour in the use of these vehicles. We've seen a 93 percent increase in emissions in the last 30 years from this part of our economy alone. We need to really think about the significant impact it has had and how we can change it. This bill starts to really focus our mind and our economy and incentivise some great behaviours.What it does is it incentivises an increase in supply and an increase in the demand for low-emissions vehicles. It uses one of those—quite well proven in fact if you've done your homework—incentives: a simple reduction in cost barriers OK? For those New Zealanders who do want to play their part in reducing emissions and they really want to find a way to take up the options that will become increasingly available to them because of the incentives provided with this market intervention.We do need to signal to the global economy that we are open for business. We support the import of low-emissions vehicles. We support the broader investment in research and development on biofuels and hydrogen-powered vehicles; not just electric and hybrid. We want the world to know that we are keen and we are open for business. It's really important that those vehicles we hear about going elsewhere in the world can actually come here because we will buy them and we're going to make it easier for New Zealanders to buy them.It also adds certainty to the market not just to those who are wanting to invest in the production but—as we've heard across the House—the entrepreneurship that is going on around the planet. We want to make sure that we've got certainty in the New Zealand market so that the economy will see investment in the charging stations and all of the other pieces of infrastructure that are required for us to shift to a low-emissions economy.Our 2025 new vehicle average carbon dioxide emission targets are achievable. The sky is not falling. Our emissions are currently 171 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometre and we plan to reach a target of 112.6 by 2025. These targets have already been met in other jurisdictions. It is possible. We are ambitious but it's not pie in the sky; it's already been done elsewhere.Further to that countries like the United Kingdom and Norway have already declared that they will stop the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles between 2025 and 2030. So we need to move quickly to ensure we don't become a dumping ground for the vehicles that nobody else on the planet wants or needs.I also want to push back against the claim that this legislation will penalise middle New Zealand—or rural New Zealand. I'm really pleased that people have observed that there are many of us who cannot do our bit for the zero-carbon economy by catching a bus to school or to work or to the doctor. So what we need is access to low-emission vehicles. Most of the farmers I know—most of my neighbours—cannot afford a new imported vehicle. Most of us are actually replacing our second-hand vehicle with another second-hand vehicle. And so what we will be doing is we will be pleased to see the potential when we replace our second-hand vehicle in a few years' time that there will actually be options and they will be affordable because somebody else has already imported them into the country. By the time I can afford to replace my current rig—my current four-wheel drive—it will be something that I will be able to afford and my neighbours down the road in my rural district will be able to afford. If we don't bring these vehicles in they will not be accessible to middle New Zealand to our families and to our rural communities. We need to be ambitious we need to set standards and we need to make it possible for people to bring these vehicles into the market.I'd just like to finish off—people talk about thinking about our most vulnerable New Zealanders. Well I hear from young New Zealanders every day—even though I'm no longer in the classroom discussing economics—and they remind me every day that we need to stand up and be ambitious for them. They are the vulnerable New Zealanders. We need to create a future. I'm really looking forward to this bill going to the select committee so that those concerns that have been brought forward can be addressed; that we can move rapidly and effectively and equitably to a zero-carbon economy. We have to do it for our young people for those who will be going on strike on Friday. We can we should and we will. I commend this bill to the House.Debate interrupted.