including energy water and environmental affairs trade and industry transport science and technology and agriculture forestry and fisheries there is in my opinion therefore a need to create a special climate change committee in the national assembly its members should come from all the critical portfolio committees and they must be capacitated to understand the science and the economics of the challenge as sir nicholas stern has said inaction is more costly than action we must confront the climate change challenge when legislators at the end of the century look back at this parliament we should be known as a parliament that built a foundation for a country that is sustainable climate proof and prosperous