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Ko Ranginui ki runga,

Ranginui is the sky father above

Ko Papatuanuku ki raro

Papatuanuku is the earth mother below

Ko nga Atua tamariki katoa kei waenganui

Their many god children between

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Climate Change

Kia ora koutou katoa

I was born in the 1980s, the decade of big hair, big shoulders and big reforms.

A decade where New Zealand went through a period of rapid privatisation and economic liberalisation.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

I wish to extend thanks to the organisers of today’s High Level Meeting.

In 2018, New Zealand’s Defence Assessment identified climate change is one of the most significant security threats of our time. The Pacific Island Forum’s Boe Declaration expands on this definition.

New Zealand is pleased that the links between climate change and security are increasingly being recognised, including through the good work of this Group of Friends. We add our voice to Germany and others to call on all big industrial nations to pick up the pace.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

I greet you in te reo Māori, language of the tangata whenua, or first people, of Aotearoa New Zealand.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

E ngā mana, e ngā reo Prestigious people, speakers of note
E ngā rangatira mā Chiefly leaders
Tēna koutou kātoa Greetings to you all

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

 

E mihi ana ki te rangi

E mihi ana ki te whenua

E mihi ana ki ngā maunga

  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Environment

Excellences, colleagues, members of the diplomatic corps, ladies and gentlemen, kia ora tatou katoa, warm Pacific greetings to one and all.

Thank you for this opportunity to speak today.

We know that climate change is the single biggest threat to the livelihoods and wellbeing of the peoples of the Pacific and there is an urgent, immediate, and unprecedented need for greater and more ambitions action. And in my privileged position as Minister for Pacific Peoples, as I listen to my elders, the two, three, that have spoken earlier and as I get to engage with our Pacific leaders right across the Pacific region – we’re leading.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Introductory remarks as Chair

This is an important and timely meeting. Here in New York the climate conversation has shifted from positions and negotiations, to action and ambition. The discussion about science and impacts and commitments is no longer controversial. Most of the world has now turned to action. Many of us here have set our sights on 1.5 degrees, a goal which resonates so strongly in the Pacific region.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

It is a privilege to be here today at the inaugural ministerial meeting of the Group of Friends of the Victims of Terrorism. And I’d like to convey our warm thanks to the governments of Afghanistan and Spain for their leadership on this important issue.

The 15th of March 2019 is forever etched into the psyche of our peoples. New Zealand experienced its worst ever terrorist attack in which 51 individuals were killed – men, women and children – and dozens more injured in attacks against our Muslim community when they were worshipping in two mosques in the city of Christchurch.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Speechnotes for the First Reading of the Arms Legislation Bill, Parliament

Introduction and overview

Mr Speaker

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Police

Tena koutou katoa, thank you for the opportunity to be here today.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Transport

One of my priorities out of Paris has been to develop a shared crisis response protocol – a shared set of expectations and understandings on who to contact and how to do it, should there be another attack like Christchurch.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

Recently in New Zealand our journalists, like many around the world, took part in the Covering Climate Now campaign.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Climate Change

Earlier this year I visited the remote atolls of Tokelau in the South Pacific.

With a population of 1,500 people that is only accessible by boat, they have a story not often heard but a message that must be shared.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Climate Change

Moderator, your Excellencies.
We in New Zealand remain deeply committed to supporting the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, which form the core of the body of international humanitarian law, applicable to armed conflicts.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Your Excellencies, good afternoon, tēnā koutou, warm Pacific greetings for you all.
I thank you for this opportunity to reaffirm Aotearoa New Zealand’s commitment to universal health coverage.
New Zealand believes firmly in the objectives of today’s event, the acceleration of progress towards achieving universal health coverage to build a healthier world for all.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Kia Ora and Warm Pacific Greetings.
The IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land is unequivocal: reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors is essential if global warming is to be kept to well below 2°C, if not 1.5°C. Changes to the global agriculture and food system are necessary if we are to address climate change, eliminate hunger and halt biodiversity loss.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Mr Secretary-General, it has been New Zealand’s honour to work with China in assisting you to prepare for your Summit.
The commitments on Nature-Based Solutions have demonstrated the significant action under way, working with nature to increase resilience and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But more than that, the commitments and initiatives will also protect biodiversity, strengthen food security and underpin sustainable livelihoods around the globe.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Kia Ora. Ni hao ma. Greetings and Warm Pacific Greetings.

It has been an honour to work with China and other coalition members to assist the Secretary-General in preparing for his Climate Action Summit. Nature-Based Solutions for climate change are something New Zealand has a strong focus on, and we look forward to working with many of you here to further this agenda.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Kia Ora, Ni hao ma, Warm Pacific Greetings.
In co-leading the Nature-Based Solutions pillar, we realised that for many people nature is not top of mind when thinking about climate action. And we realised, too, that nature is sometimes thought about as “out there”, in the countryside or forests or oceans, not here in the heart of cities where over half of us live.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā iwi, e ngā rau rangatira mā

Tēnā koutou katoa

Konnichi wa

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, ka nui te mihi kia koutou.

Thank you Bruce for your introduction, and welcome everyone.  

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Fisheries

I want to thank the Water New Zealand board and staff for assembling such a comprehensive list of domestic and international three waters experts.

  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Local Government

Hon David Parker, Minister for the Environment - Speech

Event:         Water NZ Conference 2019

  • Hon David Parker
  • Environment