The below is an excerpt from some of the many clauses debated in the IASAS MUN Conference in the UNESCAP Bangkok Building last month. Being the delegate of Brazil for the SPECPOL committee, the environment was a large subject of focus and many innovations were strewn out, many of them pretty feasible. This just comes to show how we are capable of shaping the way the future works. Note: The attached image is an actual image from General Assembly.

FORUM: The General Assembly Fourth Committee (SPECPOL)
QUESTION OF: The question of the right to environmental protection

SUBMITTED BY: Brazil

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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

Recognizing the 2030 agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and within them, the most critical ones in face of the context of modernization, to be numbers 13, 14, 15, or climate action, life below water, and life on land in that respective order,

Appreciating the initiatives led by the initial United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as an international environmental treaty adopted on May 9, 1992, as well as the significance of the findings in the follow-through of the Kyoto Protocol of December 11, 1997,

Establishing the irrelevance of placing expenditures on technological advancements (with the exception of renewable energy) targeting climate change if no foundation is set for mitigating the rates of exploiting resources,

Noting with concern that the natural damages are accentuated with higher rates of urbanization, industrialization, and population increases,

Fully aware that climate change, carbon footprint, greenhouse gases, and other issues related, are indisputable facts of science,

Deeply disturbed by the temperature rise of 0.6 - 0.9?C in global temperatures between 1906 and 2005 and the doubled rate of temperature increase in the last 50 years,

Emphasizing consequences extend to humans and their well being, for instance, covering respiratory, cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and diabetes-related chronic conditions, as well as being pertinent to other living species,

Underlines the primary mindset of maintaining so-called ?economic benefits? that arise with mass-production of consumerism goods are contradictory, where in which experts predict a 20% economic global collapse,

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1. Declares the creation of a United Nations (UN) framework, calculating a company or an industry?s ?carbon footprint? where in which the data used from this rating system will used as a gauge to identify the extent of a company, industry or institution?s appropriate output of emissions, by means such as but are not limited to:

1. Evaluating pertinent factors and variables such as:

1. Population and activities,

2. The use of renewable energy,

3. The  environmental sustainability index of the materials used or produced by a certain sector,

2. Creating a formula based off the previous subclause of: measuring the storage of the spatial boundary in volume and surface area (square meter), then calculating the carbon dioxide equivalent by applying the 100-year global warming potential (GWP 100) then after converting to kilowatt-hours of electrical energy and finding its energy intensity, then comparing the numbers to those of renewable energy as a power source,

3. Allowing of governments to receive tax returns or impose larger fines as to incentivize major and minor firms to reduce carbon emissions,

4. Mandating the follow-up of each nation?s result annually;

2. Recommends all UN member states to subsidize firms that provide more environmentally responsible infrastructure and initiatives, allocating at most, an additional 1-3% of the nation?s government expenditure, which includes projects such as, but not limited to:

1. Reforestation,

2. Renewable energy plantation sites,

3. Recycling or upcycling plantation sites,

4. Hybrid electric vehicles both in private and public scopes,

5. Education and mass media awareness campaigns;

3. Further recommends all legislative governments to dictate a majority of untouched, and undeveloped areas of natural environment as autonomous regions with an integration of ecotourism, within the framework of sustainable tourism for example:

1. Enforcing policies to minimize resource production, energy capacities and construction at the site,

2. Collaborating with the World Tourism Organization (WTO), other relevant UN bodies, and national industries for investment purposes,

3. Initiating public-friendly activities of contextual cultural celebrations:

1. Recreations of seasonal festivals and art performances,

2. Exhibitions of artifacts,

3. Trekking as a tour around natural environment and the biodiversity it contains,

4. Creating small-and medium-sized enterprises in order to facilitate access to finance, and transfer funds towards projects listed in the subclauses of clause 2,

5. A transfer of ownership to the indigenous socio-ecological societies inhabiting in the area or its surroundings if present due to their efficient management of natural resource where in which the previous subclauses in clause 3 would be seen as exoticizing;

4. Stresses the need for cooperation between member states to utilize measures in administrative law, liability under civil law, and criminal law, under the circumstances where environmental officials deem inappropriate production, distribution, or consumption of goods by means such as but are not limited to:

1. Jurisdictions of economics as a follow-through of principle 15 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development:

1. Removal of regulatory and licensing powers,

2. Punitive trade sanctions,

3. Forfeiture of profits and apparatus,

2. Promoting publicity of the inhumane acts carried upon the environment as well as its humans by:

1. Encouragement of public condemnations by government officials,

2. Mass media awareness campaigns as deemed fit by each and every UN member state,

3. Complete eradication of existing corporational frameworks and placing forth re-education and training of job procedures and the mission statements of the UN and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP);