 I am Aotearoa, and Aotearoa is me. Koau te rangi, ko te rangi koau. I am the sky, and the sky is me. Each day brings light, warmth, energy, from the blustering gales of the gentle kisses of the wind. We harness power, and from the sun's rays, flowing plentiful and free, above the clouds that burst and clenched the soil to feed our forests and our trees. This we shall know, with every fresh breath of air that we breathe. Koau haute moana, ko te moana koau. I am the ocean, and the ocean is me. The tumbling waves, where the land and sea meet, roaring, wild and relentless, but never taking or inundating our cities, our towns, or our homes. Only a tonga, a treasure. The taste on your lips just before you plunge into a sea of colour. Weaving in and out of the weeds are a shimmer of scales. No need to search, only to see, in a vast stretch of water, a sanctuary from you and me. Koau te awa, ko te awa koau. I am the river, and the river is me. A silver ribbon, winding from the serrated skyline, down to the lakes in the sea. Pure ripples of glass, swimmable, drinkable, liveable, undulating with light. Koau te ngahiri, ko te ngahiri koau. I am the forest, and the forest is me. The whisper of leaves and their rich aroma, infused in the air we breathe. A war of wings, the scuttle of preachers, seen and those unseen. The symphony, trumpeting down from the trees, a chorus restored in a land preditive-free. Koau te whenua, ko te whenua koau. I am the land, and the land is me. The earth beneath our feet, the place we call home, the soil that sustains us, our crops, our pastures, our forests, our land of tonga. Where every resource is reused, not left to fester, buried deep within Papatūanuku. I am Aotearoa, and Aotearoa is me. Our environment sustains us, supports us, is a part of us. Our future is interconnected. We are inseparable forces, and we are powerful forces that can make a difference. Once we truly understand that the world today is ours to borrow, only then will we start thinking about tomorrow. Kite kāhurī he whaka ki tinga ka ngāro te iwi. Without foresight or vision, the people will be lost. So do not be afraid to be the first to change. Do not be afraid to be the first, the first to aspire or the first to inspire. We must see with our emotions, just as we see with our eyes. Because if not us, who? If not now, when? You are the kaitiaki, the guardians for the children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. You are Aotearoa, and Aotearoa is you. Kia ora whanau. Great to be here, and I've been contemplating what can I add to the amazing richness that we've talked about in the last couple of days. So that video was shot from a group of our summer interns. Some of them are still at school, and they did it within a day and then presented it back to us as a challenge to us about reminder about why we do what we do. And it's been very powerful. It made some of my people cry. We also showed it to a group of business leaders who also were moved by it. And it's just a reminder that why we're here is for that future generation and channeling Yohan about we can't wait for them to come through to shift this for us. So a couple of things I wanted to add to the kind of conversation that we've been having. You'll get it. You'll know our planet is finite. It is amazing, and we don't thrive unless we have a healthy planet. So you get this. You are the champions of change sitting in this group. I don't need to tell you more about that, but there are a couple of thoughts I would kind of flick in. Before I do that, I do want those who are overseas visitors to know that New Zealand, while we may be better in the world in some aspects, if we keep going like we are, actually we're not as great as you reflect back to us. So a lot of people have said to me over the last week, wow, it's really amazing. A few stats for you, and we've done our environmental studies. So our waterways are increasingly coming under stress. So what we're seeing now in terms of nitrogen levels, other result of 30 years ago, two veterans coming back and being given land and putting nitrogen on the soil. It is not the current intensification of farming in terms of the nitrogen application in the last 30 years. So our nitrogen concentrations have worsened 55% in a very short period. And the amount of irrigated land has increased by 70%. The amount of intensive daring has increased as well. Another big thing is sediment in this country. So we have 190 million tonnes of sediment going into our waterways every year. We have about 308 caterpillar trucks worth of topsoil going into our freshwater rivers and streams, but also going out to ocean and into the marine environment. It's having a major impact on not just the quality of the waterways, but also seafood and ability to grow fish and farms. 75% of our freshwater fish and 30% of our plants are threatened at risk of extinction. In New Zealand we have endemic species, so species that only are here. And we have 3,000 of those that are either at risk of extinction or threatened to be at risk of extinction. So yes, New Zealand has a lot of good going for it, but also we're not on the right path, either. So I don't want to make you depressed, as Yohan does. He does a great thing of being able to make you depressed and then make you hopeful, so I'll try as well. So some thoughts, because everybody in this room is a change agent, effectively. And I wouldn't say just change, because change is just incremental things that you do better. I think the thing we've got to really challenge is the transformation. How do we transform? So a couple of thoughts. One is we have a moment in time, and I have to believe this, because otherwise I would get depressed in my job, but we have a moment in time where we have a new administration who is looking at some fundamental pieces in our architecture which will lock in the ability to transform the way we think about New Zealand and the way we grow. So for example, the Climate Act that we will be coming out to consult in May and June is one of the pieces of architecture that will be world-leading, even if it is not as aspirational when we get there as we would like, but having targets in legislation binds future governments, and that is massive. So I encourage you all to be involved, get engaged, get up to select committee and tell them this is possible. So that's kind of that piece of it. In terms of architecture, we've got ministers and we've just come from one of them in Yohan in front of them. It was just an amazing conversation, really interested in putting in sustainable development measures into our public finance act or wellbeing measures into the way we think about running this country and having a wellbeing budget hooked off that. Now that's all laudable and great, but one of the things I got really excited about today is we're talking to Yohan about, and this is where the and comes in between Yohan and Charles, I think, about thinking about how to use the planetary boundaries framework in setting and together with the wellbeing measures indicators. So thinking about doing a mash-up on that with Yohan and some overseas people. But I think coming to measures and what do we measure here in New Zealand and coming away from a conversation that says, well, yes, we really want to do something about climate change and water quality, but we can't do that because people are going to be out of jobs, right? So that's the kind of conversation we have and what this allows us to do is start to think about the integration between all of the measures of environment, so not just climate, but biodiversity, water, et cetera, and also you can have better wellbeing of people. So this is the and between Charles and me and Yohan for me. So really exciting. That is really exciting. It'd be a world-leading piece where we're trying to take planetary boundaries into how we think about targets in New Zealand. So I'm really excited about that. If you're interested in helping, that'd be cool. Felix, I've got you on my list. The other thought is food. And I actually take that a little bit like Melissa to land use. So thinking about how we grow our food and turning that into a positive thing rather than a negative and binary conversation about how do we work out to how to do farming just a bit better? How do we actually grow something here that is truly sustainable? So I think that is one of our biggest challenges. Agriculture here is our biggest challenge. We know we have 80% renewable energy. We will have 100% renewable electricity as one of the things that we will move on in the next little while. Agriculture is it in terms of the biggest shift. And again, with Yohan, he emphasises that the platform to get to Paris is not just decarbonising your economy. It's sustainable farming and also the carbon sink. So he talked about that. So that piece for us, if you're interested in doing anything in New Zealand, find a way into that. And it doesn't necessarily have to be a direct way. I kind of raised this yesterday. New ways of technology, sensing, new precision farming, things that might be outside of, you know, even Andy in her blockchain and health data, how does that fit with food production? So I would just be open to think about how you might work as a collective community to think about some of our biggest issues. The new financial tools too. So I think it's great that we have government wanting to invest in regions and that sort of thing. But I think as a country, you know, we can't afford what we've got right now. We have a very small tax base. So I think we might get a grant for three years and then, you know, you don't have anything and that's not going to sustain change or transformation. So thinking about impact investment, new financial tools, how do we bring those into New Zealand and really scale up or scale up in my language, not in the economic language, leverage of what we've got here. So our freshwater improvement fund, for example, we not only have required that it be 50% leverage with other funding, but that it's actually targeted to the vulnerable waterways in New Zealand and not scattergun to cross New Zealand so that we can stop them from tipping over. So it's that kind of thing. Where can you leverage, where can you get partners that aren't just looking for government handouts? They are short-term and they will be turned off, you know, because New Zealand doesn't have this amazing abundance of money, yeah? Small tax base. So just something in there for you. The other piece I talked a little bit about is, effectively, how do we scale up values? So the thing about New Zealand that is really cool, and I'm over time, but I'll just finish now, but is that, you know, when we've gone out to water in New Zealand, what we've found is it's a real identity issue for us. So it's as important to us as our children. It's as important to us as looking after our old people. It's an identity issue. So that combined with Māori culture, which allows you to think about Indigenous old ways of knowing to find new ways of doing, allows us to actually create change here that might not be quite what you could do elsewhere. So I think there's something to tap into there. It very quickly goes to the negative. So I think if we can find lots of examples of more positive ways forward, I think, you know, that people in New Zealand will get on the bandwagon and come along, is my sense. So scaling up the values underpinning what you're doing. So if you're thinking about making money, maybe thinking about the global good impact that you're trying to have, because I think that speaks to the heart of New Zealanders as well. Interesting, yesterday we had a rights of nature conversation and New Zealanders kind of, you know, actually it's a responsibility to nature. Yeah. So those are just some thoughts. So I'm really excited. I said it at our EHF fellows. I see all of you as friends now. And I think that is, you know, in my role. Quite often the size of the challenge is really huge and when Yohan stands up there and says, you only got a decade, I'm going, and I've only got three years, right? Because we've got a lot of things through this government. So friends help each other out if I can help you and if you can help us, you know, please come along that journey. That's probably enough for me. Tena koutou katoa.