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I need co sponsership for a new energy policy please help get it through this is the contents of the proposal


Preface:

In order to enhance energy effeciency and to safeguard the enviorment this agreement once pass will enhance the worlds energy output and enviormental safegurds presented in the following Five articles.

Article I
The united Natons shall establish an international energy committiee to oversee the establishment of an energy reseach agency to promote effecient energy research and new energy technolgies that enhance output and lower emissons of green house gases.
Article II
The united nations international energy committie will have the power to issue taxes on industries at an appropriate level to finance energy policies and agencies under its direct authority.
Article III
The United Nations will set car maximum world emmison standards for automobiles and other forms of transportation biannually.
Article IV
The United Nations will provide low intrest loans and subsidies to industries seeking to purse efficent energy output and to reduce carbon emissions.
Article V
No future energy bill can take into effect until 60 days have passed after the bill passed
Article VI
This agreement can be amended only with two thirds United Nations approval.
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Article I
The united Natons shall establish an international energy committiee to oversee the establishment of an energy reseach agency to promote effecient energy research and new energy technolgies that enhance output and lower emissons of green house gases.Seems ok. A spellchecker wouldn't hurt.
Article II
The united nations international energy committie will have the power to issue taxes on industries at an appropriate level to finance energy policies and agencies under its direct authority.NationStates doesn't work at that level of detail, though as a UN agency taxing a corporate 'person' directly, it could run afoul of Res #4
Article III
The United Nations will set car maximum world emmison standards for automobiles and other forms of transportation biannually.The Committee could do this. The UN as a whole can't.
Article IV
The United Nations will provide low intrest loans and subsidies to industries seeking to purse efficent energy output and to reduce carbon emissions.The UN doesn't have any money. How can they loan what they don't have?
Article V
No future energy bill can take into effect until 60 days have passed after the bill passed Flat out illegal. You can't stop other legislation via a proposal
Article VI
This agreement can be amended only with two thirds United Nations approval.Flat out illegal. You can't legislate a game mechanics change
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Smilies do not make your proposal more interesting. Quite the opposite, in fact.

I like the idea of an international energy commission, but one thing I noticed, was a slight problem with Article II

The UN cannot levy taxes

The UN cannot levy taxes

Incorrect. The UN cannot levy taxes on individuals. It can tax nations, and have a furious argument about whether corporations and companies can be reasonably described as individuals. Taxing "the industry" is just fine from my point of view.

"To set aside the simply illegal sections of this proposal, it would seem that it seeks to give three powers to the proposed United Nations International Energy Committee: regulate maximum transportation emissions; tax industries to fund itself; and provide loans to encourage environmentally-friendly industry.

"The first (article III) is really a different kettle of fish, and belongs in a proposal of it's own. The second (article II) seems dangerous and in violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of Resolution #4; and the third is obviously impossible, as the United Nations still lacks any funding mechanism.

"I would instead suggest encouraging national governments to implement these changes; to tax businesses producing high levels of carbon emissions, and to use these taxes to subsidize businesses implementing environmentally-friendly technology. By removing implementation of the proposal from a UN body, this would serve both to save scarce funds, and to retain some measure of national sovereignty."

~ Margaret Andrea Morgan Cheltenham
Ambassador to the United Nations
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