Over the course of the last three years, I have seen examples of the sort of transformation that we need to take hold in many businesses around the country. I've met with business leaders and with innovators who are on the right path but just need policy certainty in order to continue making the right investments. Because of the many small but necessary decisions that businesses all over Aotearoa are taking every single day, I do not believe that the progress that we have made or can make will be reversed. The question then is not whether we will transition to a low-carbon economy but whether we can do it quickly enough; whether we can make the transition in time to cut emissions in line with what the science requires. Essentially, what we are doing here today is providing an answer to the question that says we can change, that we can do things differently, and avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis and build a zero-carbon world that meets the needs of every New Zealander.