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Environmental Convention, consolidate all environment res. - Draft

Rhomanoi
11-03-2006, 13:28
The Imperial Representative to the United Nations is pleased to submit this draft resolution for prior considerment by the Member States. Please feel free to raise any and all issues concerning this Resolution here, so as to facilitate a better Resolution upon its final submission. This draft will remain open until next Thursday. All edits will be contained in ().

- Rhomanoi.

UNITED NATIONS DRAFT RESOLUTION.

‘ENVIRONMENT CONVENTION’.
PROPOSED BY THE REPRESENTATIVE FOR RHOMANOI.

NOTING the many Resolutions, both successful and failed, that have aimed to introduce a global standard of environmental protection, and the strength of conviction behind them.

REGRETTING the damage caused to the environment by the sentient species of the NationStates world.

DETERMINED to consolidate all the provisions of the standing Resolutions regarding the environment and the idealism of environmental protection and to produce one enforceable standard the world over to protect and preserve the natural world, whilst allowing human development to continue as unimpeded as possible in the circumstances.

SEEKING to work with, rather than against, the mechanisms of Member States established to deal with this issue.

HEREBY lays down the following provisions:
- All Member States have the duty to seek to preserve, within the means at their disposal, the environment of their territory for the benefit of the whole world.
- All Members States have the duty to encourage learning about the environment amongst their population, so as to facilitate environmental protection years into the future.
- All Members States have the duty to seek to expand their knowledge of the environment, so as to best learn how to gather goods to meet their needs whilst limiting the damage to the natural world.

HEREBY merges the provisions of the following Resolutions into the provisions of this:
- Resolution #11, entitled ‘Ban Single Hulled Tankers’.
- Resolution #18, entitled ‘Hydrogen Powered Vehicles’.
- Resolution #23, entitled ‘Replanting Trees’.
- Resolution #34, entitled ‘Oceanic Waste Dumping’.
- Resolution #37, entitled ‘World Heritage List’.
- Resolution #39, entitled ‘Alternative Fuels’.
- Resolution #52, entitled ‘Ballast Water’.
- Resolution #58, entitled ‘SPCC Regulation Act’.
- Resolution #66, entitled ‘Illegal Logging’.
- Resolution #70, entitled ‘Banning Whaling’.
- Resolution #71, entitled ‘Sustainable Energy Sources’.
- Resolution #72, entitled ‘Reduction of Greenhouse Gases’.
- Resolution #85, entitled ‘Support Hemp Production’.
- Resolution #116, entitled ‘Mitigation of Large Reservoirs’.
- Resolution #119, entitled ‘UNCoESB’.
- Resolution #126, entitled ‘Fossil Fuel Reduction Act’.

ESTABLISHES the United Nations Environmental Commission (UNEC) to oversee the enforcement of the provisions of this Resolution throughout the UN, and their promotion amongst non-UN members, and to seek to co-operate national environmental policies through diplomatic channels; and brings the World Woodland Protection Team (established under Resolution #66), the UN Whaling Commission (established under Resolution #70), the co-ordination programme between Member States requested in Article 3 of Resolution #72 (‘Reduction of Greenhouse Gases’) and the United Nations Conservation of Endangered Species Board (established under Resolution #119) under the control of the UNEC, to continue their work in tandem with one another.

INSTRUCTS the UNEC to assist Member States in sustaining the provisions of this resolution; and to facilitate co-operation between the bodies placed under its control by the provisions of this Resolution.

EMPOWERS the UNEC to formally hear all cases concerning the provisions of this resolution brought to it by Member States or NGOs’; and the power to designate areas to be, in line with the provisions of Resolution #37 ‘World Heritage Sites’; where all planning controls and development controls are to be operated in tandem with the UNEC and the land is to be protected from excessive development or harm under the terms laid down in Resolution #37.

EMPOWERS the UNEC to fine Member States, or NGOs’, for breaches of this Resolution (in proportion to their national GDP).

ALSO empowers the UNEC to take a leading role in the formulation of further environmental resolutions in tandem with Member States.

INSTRUCTS all Member States and NGOs’ to co-operate with the UNEC in fulfilling its duties established under this Resolution, through the sharing of data and resources with the UNEC.

INSTRUCTS all Member States to respect the UNEC and its work, and to avoid deliberately impeding its work.
Cluichstan
11-03-2006, 15:12
Illegal for so many reasons -- 16 of which involve seeking repeal/replacement of current resolutions with a single proposal.
Gruenberg
11-03-2006, 18:48
Yes, this is illegal.

However, environmental consolidation is a good thing. UNCoESB showed that. At the moment, the GTT (http://s13.invisionfree.com/Green_Think_Tank) are considering a consolidation one for various other aspects of environmental legislation.
Allied Alien Planets
12-03-2006, 20:45
I was directed here by teh author of the proposal... It looks as if it has been well thought out and I can see no need for a further amendment to the draft. Go you!
Sillytopia
12-03-2006, 20:49
I was directed here by teh author of the proposal... It looks as if it has been well thought out and I can see no need for a further amendment to the draft. Go you!
It needs to be less completely, utterly and ridiculously illegal. That's one little amendment I'd suggest.
The Most Glorious Hack
12-03-2006, 21:10
The Imperial Representative to the United Nations is pleased to submit this draft resolution for prior considerment by the Member States. Please feel free to raise any and all issues concerning this Resolution here, so as to facilitate a better Resolution upon its final submission.This is very much illegal. This is why we prefer it when people post drafts before submitting.
Rhomanoi
13-03-2006, 10:52
May I just say that the Resolution itself does not repeal any resolution - it simply asks that the Assembly repeal those other amendments of their own accord. I will re-word the draft to make it clearer.

- Rhomanoi
Hirota
13-03-2006, 10:54
May I just say that the Resolution itself does not repeal any resolution - it simply asks that the Assembly repeal those other amendments of their own accord. I will re-word the draft to make it clearer.

- RhomanoiGood luck with that. I’m not sure it can be done in one grand gesture.
Gruenberg
13-03-2006, 11:16
May I just say that the Resolution itself does not repeal any resolution - it simply asks that the Assembly repeal those other amendments of their own accord. I will re-word the draft to make it clearer.

- Rhomanoi
You don't need a resolution to do that; you need a bunch of repeals.
Rhomanoi
13-03-2006, 15:08
I have removed all reference to repeal from the Resolution draft. Perhaps I can place a seperate article asking that seperate repeals be forwarded for each of the other resolutions?

- Rhomanoi.
Gruenberg
13-03-2006, 15:15
I have removed all reference to repeal from the Resolution draft. Perhaps I can place a seperate article asking that seperate repeals be forwarded for each of the other resolutions?

- Rhomanoi.
Again, you don't ask for that sort of thing in a resolution. You need to write individual repeals for each resolution.
Rhomanoi
13-03-2006, 15:20
Again, you don't ask for that sort of thing in a resolution. You need to write individual repeals for each resolution.

Fair enough. I'll go draft up some repeals then...

Isn't there one for #11 in the pipeline already?