TEANAU TUIONO (Green): Thank you, Mr Speaker. The seas are rising and so must we. For me, the alarm bells were ringing a couple of days ago when the work done by scientists hit the media that sea level rise could hit parts of Aotearoa New Zealand twice as quickly as expected, due to the movement of tectonic plates. We knew that the seas were rising right across the world as well, but because of the special nature of our whenua here with the tectonic plates, it means that we're going to be facing that a lot quicker and a lot sooner than other folks. Wellington could expect a 30 centimetre sea level rise by 2040, a level they had not expected by 2060, along with Auckland, the Coromandel, Banks Peninsula, Hawke's Bay, Marlborough, and Nelson. This is particularly concerning for a lot of our coastal communities. Climate change is real, climate change is here—you've just got to ask our whānau up there on the East Coast, they're experiencing that right now. 