Kahoolawe
05-06-2007, 15:51
Hello there!
Today I submitted a new proposal and hoping for you support.
The proposal is called: Environmental Protection Law (http://www.nationstates.net/57490/page=UN_proposal)
and goes as followed:
"We, the people of Kahoolawe,
believing that the member states of not only the United Nations, but the world should be committed to the health and well-being of their environment.
We are deeply concerned by the potential lack of prevention and control environmental issues.
In order to establish the idea of sustainability in our peoples’ minds we hereby express our following feelings and the accordant proposals towards a (new) EU resolution.
Recognizing that the environment must be protected per se in its entirety and in its
various component parts and their interrelations, as the foundation and basis for life,
Deeply concerned about the increasing damage to the environment caused by detrimental
influences,
Fearing an occurrence of environmental disasters brought about by additional disturbances
of the ecological system,
Realizing that intensified international efforts are necessary to save the environment
and to protect it from further deterioration,
Considering the fact that effective measures to protect the environment can be implemented
only if awareness of the problems and willingness to act accordingly are
developed,
Recognizing that the United Nations should continue to play a substantial role in
promoting protection of the environment, particularly through the United Nations
Environment Programme,
Recognizing also that the United Nations Environment Programme is the lead
agency in handling environmental matters,
Convinced that in addition to measures provided by administrative law and liability
under civil law, measures should also be taken, where appropriate, in the field of
criminal law,
1. Calls upon Member States:
(a) To recognize the need to modify or enact, where necessary, and to enforce national
criminal laws designed to protect nature and the environment, as well as people,
threatened by their deterioration;
(b) To promote, under national criminal law, the protection of nature and the environment
against the dumping of hazardous wastes or other materials which pose a risk of damaging the environment and against the operation of dangerous technical
installations that they consider to involve unacceptable margins of risk;
(c) To implement effectively their national laws, including criminal laws, concerning
environmental protection and, inter alia, to ensure the restoration of the environment,
wherever harmed to its original state as far as possible;
2. Requests Member States:
(a) To take measures to encourage public awareness concerning environmental
protection and to stimulate the readiness to act accordingly;
(b) To take measures to ensure that public and private entities which undertake
activities that are hazardous to the environment take into account ecological concerns
among their economic and financial goals;
(c) To consider becoming parties to the relevant international conventions on environmental
protection and the conservation of nature;
(d) To encourage the harmonization of national and regional legislation of countries
belonging to the same ecosystem, striving for the highest level of protection of
the environment;
(e) To co-operate in the prevention, investigation and prosecution of criminal acts
against the environment"
Thank you very much for your support!!!
Today I submitted a new proposal and hoping for you support.
The proposal is called: Environmental Protection Law (http://www.nationstates.net/57490/page=UN_proposal)
and goes as followed:
"We, the people of Kahoolawe,
believing that the member states of not only the United Nations, but the world should be committed to the health and well-being of their environment.
We are deeply concerned by the potential lack of prevention and control environmental issues.
In order to establish the idea of sustainability in our peoples’ minds we hereby express our following feelings and the accordant proposals towards a (new) EU resolution.
Recognizing that the environment must be protected per se in its entirety and in its
various component parts and their interrelations, as the foundation and basis for life,
Deeply concerned about the increasing damage to the environment caused by detrimental
influences,
Fearing an occurrence of environmental disasters brought about by additional disturbances
of the ecological system,
Realizing that intensified international efforts are necessary to save the environment
and to protect it from further deterioration,
Considering the fact that effective measures to protect the environment can be implemented
only if awareness of the problems and willingness to act accordingly are
developed,
Recognizing that the United Nations should continue to play a substantial role in
promoting protection of the environment, particularly through the United Nations
Environment Programme,
Recognizing also that the United Nations Environment Programme is the lead
agency in handling environmental matters,
Convinced that in addition to measures provided by administrative law and liability
under civil law, measures should also be taken, where appropriate, in the field of
criminal law,
1. Calls upon Member States:
(a) To recognize the need to modify or enact, where necessary, and to enforce national
criminal laws designed to protect nature and the environment, as well as people,
threatened by their deterioration;
(b) To promote, under national criminal law, the protection of nature and the environment
against the dumping of hazardous wastes or other materials which pose a risk of damaging the environment and against the operation of dangerous technical
installations that they consider to involve unacceptable margins of risk;
(c) To implement effectively their national laws, including criminal laws, concerning
environmental protection and, inter alia, to ensure the restoration of the environment,
wherever harmed to its original state as far as possible;
2. Requests Member States:
(a) To take measures to encourage public awareness concerning environmental
protection and to stimulate the readiness to act accordingly;
(b) To take measures to ensure that public and private entities which undertake
activities that are hazardous to the environment take into account ecological concerns
among their economic and financial goals;
(c) To consider becoming parties to the relevant international conventions on environmental
protection and the conservation of nature;
(d) To encourage the harmonization of national and regional legislation of countries
belonging to the same ecosystem, striving for the highest level of protection of
the environment;
(e) To co-operate in the prevention, investigation and prosecution of criminal acts
against the environment"
Thank you very much for your support!!!