the latest ipcc report is a scream of alarm from world scientists. they warned that dangerous weather event will increase in frequency in the decades ahead. no prior report has been as strikingly damming. we would do well to listen, learn, and act. we can see that they are right. northern latitudes are warming faster than the southern regions. the summer arctic ice sheet is shrinking in this year in the coming decade. siberia is on fire this summer to pictures 38 degrees celsius and 30,000 square miles of tundra. europe baked. germany saw terrible flooding. and in america, climate related severe weather events. wildfires in california and in the northwest scorched the landscape and to disguise. there is a severe multiyear drought in california leaving levels at lake mead and lake powell at the lowest point in their history. 40 million people rely on the water of the colorado, fed by snowmelt, yet things are shrinking as temperatures rise. no one makes is going to reverse. hurricane ida visited devastation in new orleans. death and destruction in new

the ipcc does not mention. it's got thousands of pages. it does not mention it professor destler. i've never seen him mention it. he doesn't mention it here. this is like discussing polio and the effects of polio without discussing the fact that we have a polio vaccine. we are masters of climate to not discuss. this is climate mastery denial pure and simple and nothing. i want to really emphasize this nothing a climate mastery denier projects about future harms of co2 can be trusted because they deny our climate mastery abilities applies to the ipcc reports certainly applies to professor destler. and so the final factor, which is he even more egregious denial if that is possible is denying the benefits of fossil fuels. so fossil fuels are uniquely scalable and versatile source of energy scalable means provide energy for billions of people and thousands of places versatile means all types of machines. you might have noticed professor destler only talked about electricity. what electricity is only 20% of global energy use fossil fuels are growing particularly in china and other part

finally joined many countries around the world in setting up a plan but as we know from our work on the ipccg these plans. it is putting them into practice that is really the next big step and funding them. what is particularly useful about this plan is its focus on protecting the poorest and indigenous maori communities here, who we now are going to be the most affected by our rising seas and, while britain, for example, has been having such record heat waves, here in my own city, in christchurch, we have had the wettest july on record and so flooding, sealevel rise, together with wildfires and drought, are an increasing risk for new zealanders so it is a relief but now the big question is how are we going to fund it. absolutely, professor, and that is what i want to ask you about because, while the plan has been praised in terms of the sort of scope of its ambition, lots of questions, aren't there, in terms of lacking — the fact that it is lacking in detail, when it comes to who will pay for it and the cost of it? yes, the next step, we have been really following britain and setting up lon