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Has also been posted and discussed as "Natural Disaster Assessment". If you supported the Tsunami Warning Centre, you'll surely support this one.


Natural Diaster Act

A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.


Category: International Security


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Groot Gouda

Description: DEEPLY REGRETTING loss of life and material damages as a result of natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, typhoons, floods, blizzards, etc;

NOTING that these disasters do not stop at national borders;

OBSERVING the Tsunami Emergency Warning Center as instituted by the Tsunami Warning System (Resolution #90);

NOTING that the aforementioned Resolution #90 has limited effect for other natural disasters;

ALSO NOTING that the measures implemented by this resolution can and should be used for further research and development of natural disaster warning systems;

1. DEFINES "natural disaster" as any disaster caused by (physical) geographical, geological or meteorological processes, including but not limited to earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, tropical cyclones, floods, blizzards, etc;

2. ESTABLISHES a Natural Disaster Assessment Organisation (NDAO) which has the following tasks:
a. Conduct research on natural disasters, preventative methods and monitoring systems,
b. Coordinate international cooperation on this field, in scientific research and in practical solutions,
c. Create protocols for warning about possible disasters, evacuation plans and local disaster awareness programmes,
d. Maintain contacts with local authorities and local organisations in order to improve communication of information about possible natural disasters and how to respond to them,
e. Maintain contacts with national governments participating in the NDAO, the Tsunami Warning Center, and the UN;

3. EMPHASIZES that the NDAO is meant primarily for natural disasters with an international impact;

4. REQUESTS that member nations collect and share geological, meteorological and other relevant data with other countries and the NDAO to assist in monitoring, forecasting and researching natural disasters;

5. URGES all nations to establish and fund a National Geological Survey and a National Meteorological Office which can colelct data, contribute to the NDAO as well as work on a national or regional level on the monitoring of potentially dangerous sites and conduct research;

6. EMPHASIZES that technology alone is not enough, but warning and evacuating the population efficiently is just as important, as well as having plans for dealing with a disaster and the rebuilding of the affected region;

7. URGES all nations to contribute financially, organisationally or otherwise to the NDAO;

8. CALLS UPON all nations to provide care and assistance in case of a natural disaster, by themselves or through recognized UN organisations such as the International Red Cross;

The People's Republic of Groot Gouda would like to thank Grosseschnauzer, Mikitivity and the Nederland region for their input.

Hmm. Expensive, but not too bad.

Couldn't you just expand an existing committees powers instead of making a new one? Think of the children!

Looks good to us, though 'collect' has been spelt incorrectly in clause 5.

Mathieu Vergniaud
Deputy Speaker to the UN
[Spelling Nazi]

Sounds good to me. I'm just a powerless newb with no endorsments whatsoever, though. :)

Looks great!

It sounds like organizationally that the TEWC would be perhaps under the NDAO.

e. Maintain contacts with national governments participating in the NDAO, the Tsunami Warning Center, and the UN;

Or at least, my government feels this would be an appropriate and responsible administrative way to cut down costs.

I think this is a worthy endevour and shall offer the full suppert of the realm and the nation. However i have a question for DLE. Where do you forsee the Expense of this, in so far as the majority of its points are already in place in disaster hotspots?

International Security? Isn't that about spending more on police and defense?

How much do you foresee this costing?

Krioval has decided to approve this (for the fourth time?).

However i have a question for DLE. Where do you forsee the Expense of this, in so far as the majority of its points are already in place in disaster hotspots?

I'm in a region of space where ion storms of enough power to blow up planets have video footage to back up the claim of their existance. Natural disasters of some measure are happening all of the time here, though luckily most of the planets affected are uninhabitable from the thousands of previous ion storms that hit them. To top it all off, they're not preventable and often you barely get a warning they're comming before they are on top of you.

So, yeah, reimbursing for natural disasters pretty much means the UN is going to be sending me a paycheck every week.

I'm in a region of space where ion storms of enough power to blow up planets have video footage to back up the claim of their existance. Natural disasters of some measure are happening all of the time here, though luckily most of the planets affected are uninhabitable from the thousands of previous ion storms that hit them. To top it all off, they're not preventable and often you barely get a warning they're comming before they are on top of you.

So, yeah, reimbursing for natural disasters pretty much means the UN is going to be sending me a paycheck every week.
But I don't see where it mentions any such thing.
No payouts for data, that I saw. No financial help to recover from a disaster. What's this paycheck thing?

Hmm... maybe someone can set up a "disaster relief" thread for you. :D

But I don't see where it mentions any such thing.
No payouts for data, that I saw. No financial help to recover from a disaster. What's this paycheck thing?

Here:

8. CALLS UPON all nations to provide care and assistance in case of a natural disaster, by themselves or through recognized UN organisations such as the International Red Cross;

Assistance does not preclude paying me the equivolent of what the materials of the planet were worth.

How is it possible I missed that?

That's exactly the kind of thing I went back and looked for.

I agree. That clause has no place in this proposal.

Since it only urges outher countrys to pay I will accept.

I'm in a region of space where ion storms of enough power to blow up planets have video footage to back up the claim of their existance. Natural disasters of some measure are happening all of the time here, though luckily most of the planets affected are uninhabitable from the thousands of previous ion storms that hit them. To top it all off, they're not preventable and often you barely get a warning they're comming before they are on top of you.

So, yeah, reimbursing for natural disasters pretty much means the UN is going to be sending me a paycheck every week.


MMM interesting point!

I suggest Groot Gouda rename the Proposal "World Natural Disaster Assessment Organis(z)ation (WNDAO)" which will in effect negate off NS World Disasters and their costs. I know i am being Parochial but i believe that was the original intent by the Author.

While many of us were sleeping, Indonesia got pegged by another killer earthquake. :(

Although the earthquake was located to the west of Sumatra, on the same fault as the Boxing Day quake of 2004, it did not produce a tsunami.

I've only been in the office a few minutes, but my local paper already had some explanation why not. The important thing here is that they had actually predicted the location of this quake and *knew* it was going to happen sometime around now based on the previous quake. The message that the United States is now sending is that we know a good deal about earthquakes, but still need to research the connection to other natural disasters.

I've posted a few articles on the UNO site:
http://s3.invisionfree.com/UN_Organizations/index.php?showtopic=81