Draft: Repeal "Protecting Migratory Animals"

[Sandaoguo]

Repeal "Protecting Migratory Animals"
Target Resolution: Text | Debate Thread

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The General Assembly,

BELIEVING STRONGLY in the goal of conservation of migratory animals, because those animals have an important role in cross-border ecosystems,

ACUTELY AWARE that conservation efforts cannot be “one size fits all” and must be tailored to specific groups of animals in order to be truly effective,

APPLAUDING the intent of General Assembly Resolution #290, “Protecting Migratory Animals”, but believing that international conservation law needs to be more detailed and tailored to individual species and groups of species,

CONCERNED that “Protecting Migratory Animals” attempts to address conservation of all species of migratory animals, even when the conservation efforts of wildly different species pose unique challenges, such as the differences between migratory birds and migratory sharks, or the differences in conservation between endangered and non-endangered migratory animals,

CONCERNED FURTHERMORE that because the mandates in “Protecting Migratory Animals” are too vague and broad, the resolution poses a significant threat to the lives of migratory animals by creating too many holes in national and international conservation efforts,

RESOLVES that “Protecting Migratory Animals” is hereby repealed.

The General Assembly,

BELIEVING STRONGLY in the goal of conservation of migratory animals,

ACUTELY AWARE that conservation efforts cannot be “one size fits all” and must be tailored to specific groups of animals in order to be truly effective,

APPLAUDING the intent of General Assembly Resolution #290, “Protecting Migratory Animals”, but believing that international conservation law needs to be more detailed and tailored,

CONCERNED that “Protecting Migratory Animals” attempts to address conservation of all species of migratory animals, even when the conservation efforts of wildly different species pose unique challenges,

CONCERNED FURTHERMORE that the mandates in “Protecting Migratory Animals” are too vague and broad, which poses a significant threat to the effectiveness of the law and the lives of migratory animals,

RESOLVES that “Protecting Migratory Animals” is hereby repealed.

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Our goal with this repeal is to open up the broad spectrum of possible future proposals that deal with the conservation of migratory species. While the goal of the target resolution is laudable, it combines a bunch of different policy areas into a single thin resolution. Birds and sharks are regulated under the same resolution! The General Assembly can do more and can do better with more tailored resolutions.

文勋 Xūn Wén
Permanent Representative to the World Assembly

[Gnejs]

Wilma pops in her head in on the way to the bathroom:

"Forgive me, but isn't the APPLAUDING and CONCERNED clauses essentially saying the same thing? Especially when you've got that ACUTELY AWARE at the top? Perhaps only one of them is needed?"

Wilma proceeds to the bathroom.

[Sandaoguo]

Wilma pops in her head in on the way to the bathroom:

"Forgive me, but isn't the APPLAUDING and CONCERNED clauses essentially saying the same thing? Especially when you've got that ACUTELY AWARE at the top? Perhaps only one of them is needed?"

Wilma proceeds to the bathroom.

Repetition gets the point across!

[Araraukar]

OOC: Support, but why not posting this on G-R?

[Sandaoguo]

OOC: Support, but why not posting this on G-R?

OOC: This is my WA account in TSP, plus I don't want my GenSec username color to discourage critique

[Araraukar]

OOC: Support, but why not posting this on G-R?

OOC: This is my WA account in TSP, plus I don't want my GenSec username color to discourage critique

OOC: Heh, fair enough, especially on the latter point.

[Sandaoguo]

I have reworded the proposal slightly, and submitted a test run to gauge how much advocacy will be needed in the future.

文勋 Xūn Wén
Permanent Representative to the World Assembly

[Imperium Anglorum]

NORTH: We heartily support the spirit and the aims of this proposal.

[Separatist Peoples]

NORTH: We heartily support the spirit and the aims of this proposal.

Bell, reading between the lines, begins to laugh uncontrollably. In his mirth, he presses the Big Green FOR button.

[Empire of Cats]

Repeal "Protecting Migratory Animals"
Target Resolution: Text | Debate Thread

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The General Assembly,

BELIEVING STRONGLY in the goal of conservation of migratory animals, because those animals have an important role in cross-border ecosystems,

ACUTELY AWARE that conservation efforts cannot be “one size fits all” and must be tailored to specific groups of animals in order to be truly effective,

APPLAUDING the intent of General Assembly Resolution #290, “Protecting Migratory Animals”, but believing that international conservation law needs to be more detailed and tailored to individual species and groups of species,

CONCERNED that “Protecting Migratory Animals” attempts to address conservation of all species of migratory animals, even when the conservation efforts of wildly different species pose unique challenges, such as the differences between migratory birds and migratory sharks, or the differences in conservation between endangered and non-endangered migratory animals,

CONCERNED FURTHERMORE that because the mandates in “Protecting Migratory Animals” are too vague and broad, the resolution poses a significant threat to the lives of migratory animals by creating too many holes in national and international conservation efforts,

RESOLVES that “Protecting Migratory Animals” is hereby repealed.

The General Assembly,

BELIEVING STRONGLY in the goal of conservation of migratory animals,

ACUTELY AWARE that conservation efforts cannot be “one size fits all” and must be tailored to specific groups of animals in order to be truly effective,

APPLAUDING the intent of General Assembly Resolution #290, “Protecting Migratory Animals”, but believing that international conservation law needs to be more detailed and tailored,

CONCERNED that “Protecting Migratory Animals” attempts to address conservation of all species of migratory animals, even when the conservation efforts of wildly different species pose unique challenges,

CONCERNED FURTHERMORE that the mandates in “Protecting Migratory Animals” are too vague and broad, which poses a significant threat to the effectiveness of the law and the lives of migratory animals,

RESOLVES that “Protecting Migratory Animals” is hereby repealed.

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Our goal with this repeal is to open up the broad spectrum of possible future proposals that deal with the conservation of migratory species. While the goal of the target resolution is laudable, it combines a bunch of different policy areas into a single thin resolution. Birds and sharks are regulated under the same resolution! The General Assembly can do more and can do better with more tailored resolutions.

文勋 Xūn Wén
Permanent Representative to the World Assembly

Begging your pardon, but isn't it possible to just simply add an amendment to the original resolution instead of a constant add-take-revise-resubmit policy? Just a thought. Otherwise, I'm with you.

[The Atlae Isles]

Repeal "Protecting Migratory Animals"
Target Resolution: Text | Debate Thread

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The General Assembly,

BELIEVING STRONGLY in the goal of conservation of migratory animals, because those animals have an important role in cross-border ecosystems,

ACUTELY AWARE that conservation efforts cannot be “one size fits all” and must be tailored to specific groups of animals in order to be truly effective,

APPLAUDING the intent of General Assembly Resolution #290, “Protecting Migratory Animals”, but believing that international conservation law needs to be more detailed and tailored to individual species and groups of species,

CONCERNED that “Protecting Migratory Animals” attempts to address conservation of all species of migratory animals, even when the conservation efforts of wildly different species pose unique challenges, such as the differences between migratory birds and migratory sharks, or the differences in conservation between endangered and non-endangered migratory animals,

CONCERNED FURTHERMORE that because the mandates in “Protecting Migratory Animals” are too vague and broad, the resolution poses a significant threat to the lives of migratory animals by creating too many holes in national and international conservation efforts,

RESOLVES that “Protecting Migratory Animals” is hereby repealed.

The General Assembly,

BELIEVING STRONGLY in the goal of conservation of migratory animals,

ACUTELY AWARE that conservation efforts cannot be “one size fits all” and must be tailored to specific groups of animals in order to be truly effective,

APPLAUDING the intent of General Assembly Resolution #290, “Protecting Migratory Animals”, but believing that international conservation law needs to be more detailed and tailored,

CONCERNED that “Protecting Migratory Animals” attempts to address conservation of all species of migratory animals, even when the conservation efforts of wildly different species pose unique challenges,

CONCERNED FURTHERMORE that the mandates in “Protecting Migratory Animals” are too vague and broad, which poses a significant threat to the effectiveness of the law and the lives of migratory animals,

RESOLVES that “Protecting Migratory Animals” is hereby repealed.

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Our goal with this repeal is to open up the broad spectrum of possible future proposals that deal with the conservation of migratory species. While the goal of the target resolution is laudable, it combines a bunch of different policy areas into a single thin resolution. Birds and sharks are regulated under the same resolution! The General Assembly can do more and can do better with more tailored resolutions.

文勋 Xūn Wén
Permanent Representative to the World Assembly

Begging your pardon, but isn't it possible to just simply add an amendment to the original resolution instead of a constant add-take-revise-resubmit policy? Just a thought. Otherwise, I'm with you.

We can't amend resolutions. It's too hard for them to code it in, so we have to repeal and replace. I just hope there's a replacement.

[Sandaoguo]

Ideally, there won't be a single replacement for this. The repeal argues that the World Assembly shouldn't try to address conservation of all migratory species in a single resolution. That, instead, we should be making more tailored resolutions about the conservation of different types of animals.

So, there should be many replacements, in effect.

文勋 Xūn Wén
Permanent Representative to the World Assembly

[Texsuccesusa Federation]

A

[Aclion]

I'll have to dig out my transnational habitats act.

[States of Glory WA Office]

Fairburn: It's all well and good stating that migratory animals of different species should have different regulations, but why? Try to give an example of the absurdity that is caused by one-size-fits-all legislation.

[Araraukar]

Fairburn: It's all well and good stating that migratory animals of different species should have different regulations, but why? Try to give an example of the absurdity that is caused by one-size-fits-all legislation.

Fairburn, could you tell your nation's acting ambassador, miss Warner, that she shouldn't let you out of the hospital before you've collected your wits properly, and that if the insanity of legislating for all kinds of migratory animals from ants to whales in a single proposal doesn't sound crazy to you, maybe you should be committed there permanently.

OOC: Just poking fun at your forum siggy not having reinstated Fairburn as the proper ambassador yet and also because if memory serves, he pissed off Janis before he went away, nothing worse.

[States of Glory WA Office]

Fairburn: It's all well and good stating that migratory animals of different species should have different regulations, but why? Try to give an example of the absurdity that is caused by one-size-fits-all legislation.

Fairburn, could you tell your nation's acting ambassador, miss Warner, that she shouldn't let you out of the hospital before you've collected your wits properly, and that if the insanity of legislating for all kinds of migratory animals from ants to whales in a single proposal doesn't sound crazy to you, maybe you should be committed there permanently.

Fairburn: We cannot leave out vital information on the basis that it is "too obvious". Otherwise, I could repeal NAPA by stating that the mere possession of nuclear weapons leads to puppies being killed and I could get out of explaining my argument by claiming that the reasoning is obvious.

[Araraukar]

Fairburn: We cannot leave out vital information on the basis that it is "too obvious". Otherwise, I could repeal NAPA by stating that the mere possession of nuclear weapons leads to puppies being killed and I could get out of explaining my argument by claiming that the reasoning is obvious.

I would honestly want to see you try, so that the collective asskicking was joined in by the Secretariat...

OOC:

[Separatist Peoples]

Fairburn: We cannot leave out vital information on the basis that it is "too obvious". Otherwise, I could repeal NAPA by stating that the mere possession of nuclear weapons leads to puppies being killed and I could get out of explaining my argument by claiming that the reasoning is obvious.

I would honestly want to see you try, so that the collective asskicking was joined in by the Secretariat...

OOC:

OOC: Why? It would technically be legal. Not that I wouldn't support a Repeal rule that requires the effects be logically connected to the resolution.

[Araraukar]

OOC: Why? It would technically be legal. Not that I wouldn't support a Repeal rule that requires the effects be logically connected to the resolution.

OOC: Fairly sure it'd fall under Honest Mistake, at least the way it's been applied in the last year or so.

EDIT: Also, I mean the Mods by "Secretariat". The GenSec don't exist IC.

[Separatist Peoples]

OOC: Why? It would technically be legal. Not that I wouldn't support a Repeal rule that requires the effects be logically connected to the resolution.

OOC: Fairly sure it'd fall under Honest Mistake, at least the way it's been applied in the last year or so.

EDIT: Also, I mean the Mods by "Secretariat". The GenSec don't exist IC.

OOC: I knew we should have named this the Appellate Review Council Court Board of Lord Judge Secretaries And Also UNIBOT...

Anyway, lets not fall off topic.

[Bakhton]

"We stand against this repeal as the original resolution allows for enough leeway to react to these complaints risen."

[Whovian Tardisia]

"We also stand against, due to the fact that the vastness of this Assembly means that perhaps thousands of documents may be required to satisfy the request of the third clause."

[Separatist Peoples]

"We also stand against, due to the fact that the vastness of this Assembly means that perhaps thousands of documents may be required to satisfy the request of the third clause."

"Why is that a bad thing?"

[Whovian Tardisia]

"It seems an absurdly vast amount of archive space to dedicate to such a relatively trivial topic, Ambassador. We feel the current resolution serves to avoid wasting WA time on this. If member states want more specific regulations, let them stipulate them for themselves. Besides, not all species reside in all member states, so most of those documents would not apply to a vast amount of member states."