GA Resolution: The Amelioration Of Maritime Conditions

[Lenlyvit]

The Amelioration Of Maritime Conditions

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

Category: Environmental

Industry Affected: All Businesses - Mild

Proposed by: Radical Republic

Recognizing the vast amount of pollutants in the hydrosphere.

Defining a maritime pollutant as a pollutant that affects the hydrosphere or on its organisms. These pollutants are limited to substance added directly to the hyrdosphere through methods like dumping or runoff. Airborne pollutants are exempt.

Wishing to monitor and record the sources and track the severity of pollutants in the hydrosphere.

Hereby:

1. Requires all governmental organizations to keep a record of any and all pollutants added by them to the hydrosphere.

2. Encourages governments to legislate private corporations to keep a record themselves.

3. Requires the record to be accessible to anyone who wishes to view it. This includes other governments or citizens.

4. Mandating that member nations above the recorded international average must reduce their maritime pollutant production 5% by the end of the fiscal year.

This is the discussion thread. To cast your vote, go HERE

[Marxist Germany]

Against, this was not drafted, and is useless as a resolution on oil spills already exists. This could've been much better if it was drafted.

[Deleted]

This would be virtually impossible for nations to track, and the resolution makes no accommodation for pollutants that may drift into (or out of) a nation's waters by current, or that left by transient shipping.

The 5% reduction is completely arbitrary, and the mandate for improvement by 'the end of the fiscal year' could be as little as one day since there's no mention of when the reporting must be submitted, or when it would be checked and nations notified. Also, the recorded international average would be in constant flux, so determining whether a nation is over or under would also be impossible, and for nations on the cusp, could change by the day.

Agree that this needed greater scrutiny and thought before submission, and astonished that it made quorum.

THX, through its WA proxy, will vote against.