NationStates Jolt Archive

International Energy Reseach

A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.

Category: Environmental
Industry Affected: All Businesses
Proposed by: Centrist Britain

Oweing to the increasing threat of humanity destroying its own planet, Centrist Britain proposes that the UN:

1. Set up an international research team, funded by at least 4% of each member nation's GDP, devoted to finding clean and powerful alternatives to fossil fuels, e.g. nuclear fusion.

2. In accordance with supplying the above said 4% of GDP, member nations are orded to impose a new Clean Energy Research Tax of the government's discretion on all polluting businesses (inluding those that own and run fossil fueled power stations).

This proposal increases the chances of humanity advancing its power technology, cleanly for the future, and it progressively diminishes polluting industry that does nothing but contributes to the problem.

Please support this proposal for the good of the Earth; only together as one world can something be done about our planet's impending doom. I have checked thoroughly for spelling and grammar mistakes, please don't point them out if there are any left.

Thank you, the Dominion of Centrist Britain

International Energy Reseach

A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.

Category: Environmental
Industry Affected: All Businesses
Proposed by: Centrist Britain

Oweing to the increasing threat of humanity destroying its own planet, Centrist Britain proposes that the UN:

1. Set up an international research team, funded by at least 4% of each member nation's GDP, devoted to finding clean and powerful alternatives to fossil fuels, e.g. nuclear fusion.

2. In accordance with supplying the above said 4% of GDP, member nations are orded to impose a new Clean Energy Research Tax of the government's discretion on all polluting businesses (inluding those that own and run fossil fueled power stations).

This proposal increases the chances of humanity advancing its power technology, cleanly for the future, and it progressively diminishes polluting industry that does nothing but contributes to the problem.

We appear to be having a glut of resolutions on energy at the moment. Nevertheless, this has many worthy aspects, particularly the idea of an international research team. I would suggest that you try and incorporate it within the frame of the replacement resolution that will follow the 'Repeal of Solar Panels Resolution'.

May the blessings of our otters be upon you.

Leonard Otterby
Ambassador for the Republic of Compadria to the U.N.

4% of GDP is excessive. To put it in perspective, the RL UK government set itself a target last year - it aimed to ensure that within 10 years, public and private spending on research and development in all fields will reach just 2.5% of the UK's GDP.

You are proposing that all nations (not just those comfortably wealthy, with cash to spare and with a good technical base) spend close to double this amount on just one field, not counting domestic public research or research by private organisation. For a poor nation like _Myopia_, this is impractical.

You have also provided no oversight for this research body, only a very ambiguous goal, and no rules about how it is to go about conducting this research.

Mentioning your own country's name is branding and thus makes your proposal illegal.

Finally, there are mistakes remaining, and it is absurd to ask that nobody point them out.

The first word should be "owing" - no "e". "Orded" should become "ordered" and "inluding" needs to be "including". The past tense of "fuel" is "fuelled" with 2 "l"s not 1, and "fossil fueled power stations" means power stations run on fossils, not fossil fuels - it needs to say "fossil fuel power stations".

Please support this proposal for the good of the Earth; only together as one world can something be done about our planet's impending doom. I have checked thoroughly for spelling and grammar mistakes, please don't point them out if there are any left.

Thank you, the Dominion of Centrist Britain

I Support your proposal, 4% of GDP is nothing compared to the excessive price of crude oil and other fossil fuels, which is damaging the NationStates economy at the moment (I believe). We could find more reserves of coal, oil or gas, but it is simply not worth it as we are going to run out of these important natural resources, but instead of wasting money on doing that, we can invest in renewable energy sources.

In the Republic of the Digital Network we are already one step ahead as we use solar panels and wind farms as our primary source of energy.

We must agree this proposal in the good interest of the environment and the global economy.

Finally,we should also generalise the new proposal of solar panels to include these important factors and also to merge it with other environmental proposals.

4% of GDP is nothing compared to the excessive price of crude oil and other fossil fuels

Technically, if this were true, then the market would be dealing with the problem itself, as R & D into alternative energy would be highly profitable. The need for government intervention on pollution is precisely due to the fact that by the time the cost of fossil fuels forces the market to take action, it will most likely be too late to stop global warming.

We fully acknowledge the need to drastically reduce fossil fuel usage, and _Myopia_ is achieving substantial cuts via the use of fission (OOC: this nation's nuclear technology is modelled on that of India, though the technology is more widely used than in India). But to ask a developing nation such as ours to give 4% of our GDP solely to this one research group is crazy. I don't reckon it would be possible to spend 4% of the GDP of every single UN nation just on researching this one subject - it's far more money than could ever be needed.

That was one point I forgot, 4% may be small but it is more money then we actually need, keeping to account that there are thousands of members in the UN.

When collected from all of the UN member states,4% of GDP can account up to quadrillions of dollars.

We should reduce it to about 0.5% or 1%, but even that is still a lot of money.

The Market may solve the problem but the extra funding will accelerate the time of developing the new technologies.

Finally, as _Myopia_ just said that we need to reduce how much fossil fuels, we can do this though efficiency or R&D. The problem we all facing is that it is too late to solve global warming, which is a real issue and we have no power over nature and no knowledge of how to prevent this from happening.

But overall, I agree with the proposal and hopefully this will become an resolution (after when all of the environmental resolutions have been amalgamated) this should pass.