Hon JAMES SHAW (Minister of Climate Change): Thank you, Mr Speaker. I rise most enthusiastically to support the Financial Sector (Climate-related Disclosures and Other Matters) Amendment Bill. This bill has actually been quite a long time coming. Back when I was the modest Opposition climate change spokesperson and was invited by the Hon Tim Groser, the Minister for climate change at the time, to observe at the Paris climate talks, I found myself sitting at the back of a room in which Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, and Michael Bloomberg, of Bloomberg, were launching their task force on climate-related financial disclosures. Neither of them are given to particularly flowery language—you could describe them as dry in their economic bent; very dry—yet some of the language that they used was actually quite extraordinary in the context that they were describing.