For New Zealand, as with any country, one of the most difficult aspects of the climate change challenge is to bend the curve of our emissions and get them on to a sustained downward trajectory. This has never before happened in our country. Once that happens, things can move quickly from there, which is exactly what happened in the United Kingdom. Once their emissions started coming down, the rate of decline just kept picking up pace, and even more so as the cost of low carbon alternatives started dropping too. The UK managed to reduce emissions by over 40 percent below 1990 levels whilst maintaining the highest levels of economic growth in the G20. We can achieve something similar here in Aotearoa. This bill, in tandem with the zero carbon Act, will help us to do that.