After hearing a lot of members on the Tunza networking platform engage in Model United Nations upon submission of my previous report on the conference in Thailand, I thought I would share another environmentally related resolution that we debated. Ambassador Aldrin Aujero was also present in this event.

FORUM: The Special Politics and Decolonisation Committee (General Assembly IV)

QUESTION: The Question of the Right to Environmental Protection

MAIN SUBMITTER: The Russian Federation

CO-SUBMITTERS: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, The Republic of Cuba, Argentine Republic, The Federative Republic of Brazil

CO-SPONSORS: The Federal Republic of Nigeria

Believing that global warming is a drastic issue and has caused around 150,000 deaths in the 21st century,

Deeply concerned with the fact that 80% of the energy used inside this world is unsustainable energy based on the Energy Information Administration (EIA),

Noting with deep concern that greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, have increased by over 30% over the last seven decades, and has been noted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to be the highest concentration in global atmospheric carbon dioxide ever recorded,

Fully alarmed that in 2016 humans have emitted 5424 million metric tons of fossil fuels,

Defining environmentally sustainable energy as: energy, that does not pollute the atmosphere or local environment when used or harvested,

Article I: Sustainable Development

1. Strongly urges member nations to recognise the importance of environmental protection as a means of ensuring a clean and sustainable environment and practices for future generations, and as such, at the discretion of the member nation, work individually on their respective environmental policies, implementing solutions and setting targets such as but not limited to:

1. Sharing research and a mutual understanding of alternative renewable energy sources through:

1. Having member states training statisticians then sending them out to collect data,

2. Creating a central communication center for better flow of information inside all member states and between member states,

3. Gathering research that best suit the land and climate of the specific country, which can be harnessed to the maximum extent,

2. Creating laws that allow for the gradual transition into using such alternative renewable energy that will not bring harm to the citizens, companies and social organisations of the country,

3. Changing or removing laws that could allow the environment to be negatively affected by certain practices, and improving them so that the environment is being positively impacted or at least sustained,

4. Investing manpower and funds into the protection of the environment, in ways such as but not limited to:

1. Starting campaigns which encourage the public into caring for and protecting the environment,

2. Increasing the amount of protection and care put into taking care of natural habitats and areas in the country,

3. Implementing a gradual recycling system which allows for less waste of materials,

5. Cooperating with NGOs such as Greenpeace, to start installing renewable energy on government infrastructure and replacing unsustainable energy such as fossil fuels;

2. Hopes that member states provide clean energy to rural areas in ways such as:

1. Establishing and directing alternative energy based industries in rural or developing areas through connecting rural villages up to renewable energy electrical grids,

2. Encouraging small businesses and entrepreneurs to sell renewable energy sources individually in rural and underdeveloped areas,

3. Encourages governments to support renewable energy technology developing corporations in ways such as but not limited to:

1. Helping corporations put in infrastructure such as cable lines to help deliver developed energy to consumers,

2. Supplying land to people and companies developing or implementing renewable energy technology in ways such as building basic facilities in these environments so that scientists and engineers will be able to develop their technologies, as well as providing land for companies implementing renewable energy technology,

3. Giving tax incentives to companies who are developing or implementing renewable energy technology, further outlined in clause 4,

4. Subsidizing existing factories that replace unsustainable energy with renewable energy;

Article II: Issues Regarding the Environment

1. Calls upon the local government to contribute in ensuring safe levels of pH produced by industries contributing to acid rain by:

1. Encouraging the use of Pollution Reducing Technology such as implementing solutions such as Eco-Funnel among other things to reduce the amount of pH produced

2. Reassuring all industry leaders that this technology is sustainable and does not impede on production,

3. Checking amount of pollutants such as sulfur and nitrogen oxide of each industrial factory,

4. Reporting pH levels to relevant organizations,

5. Adopting legislatures such as those requiring:

1. all states to install clean coal technology that reduces sulfur dioxide releases, using renewable energy sources (solar, wind, etc.),

2. all industries in all states to install wet scrubbers, which remove the sulphur dioxide from gases leaving the smokestack,

3. all states to use technologies that do not burn fossil fuels but are still able to get the required job done;

2. Deplores the selfish actions and policies adopted by member nations with regards to environmental protection as shortsighted such as but not limited to:

1. Denying the existence of climate change and other relevant fundamental principles and facts established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) through means such as but not limited to:

1. Rejecting the facts of climate change and the environment in platforms such as the United Nations, International Conventions and other reputable and relevant international institutions,

2. Publicly stating misleading claims on climate change through platforms such as social media outlets most prominently twitter as well as government issued documents and speeches,

2. Withdrawing from key agreements and protocols and by doing so undermining the authority of the relevant agreements and protocols;

3. Declares the creation of a United Nations (UN) framework, calculating a company or an industry’s ‘carbon footprint’ wherein 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 information by 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 governments to receive tax returns or impose larger fines as to incentivize major and minor firms to reduce carbon emissions,

4. Mandating an annual follow-up of each nation’s result;