YouTube - "Me" asking John key about global warming

Me: I'd like to know what National has to offer New Zealand over the Green Party in terms of combating global warming.

John Key: I don't think the most serious issue that New Zealand will face in the next decade is climate change. I do think that it's an important issue, and I think we should take it seriously, and we are going to take it seriously, and that means we'll honour our Kyoto obligations, we'll have an Emissions Trading Scheme, which will be balanced, it will balance our environmental responsibilities against our economic opportunities, we'll make sure it's linked in or at least has reference to Australia, it wont be a big money-making device for the Crown, it will be fiscally-neutral, but look, at the end of the day, New Zealand represents 0.2% to 0.4% of world emissions. I don't see any point in New Zealand completely closing its economy down, simply to export carbon emissions or carbon leakage over to Australia. Now for Upper Hutt... [drowned out by applause]