There shall be a Committee of the whole Assembly to be called the Committee of Supply. The deliberations of the Committee shall be in public. It shall be the duty of the Committee of Supply to consider the Estimates and Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure, and Statements of Excesses presented to the Assembly.
Standing Order No. 72 of the National Assembly
A little over a week ago, an iceberg almost the size of Greater London broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, following years of naturally occurring cracks that extended across the Shelf. This was the second major calving from the ice shelf within the last two years. Over in the north, the Greenland Ice Sheet, which is the second-largest ice sheet on Earth, is undergoing exceptional warming with temperatures from 2001-2011 being the warmest in the past 1,000 years. These occurrences have significant implications for sea level rise, drought conditions, wildfires, rainfall and hurricanes, the severity of which have already been felt across the globe and are more likely to continue in the foreseeable future.
