Land Reclamation Regulations
Category: Environmental
AoE: All Businesses - Mild
The World Assembly,
Acknowledging the use of land reclamation in member nations to increase their land area for purposes such as alleviating overpopulation;
Concerned that unregulated land reclamation could lead to serious environmental damage, such as:
- the destruction of coral reefs and wetlands,
- erosion of beaches in nations that sell sand to be used in land reclamation,
- use and harmful depletion of nonrenewable resources;
Hoping that by regulating land reclamation, these environmental damages can be prevented;
The World Assembly Hereby:
- Mandates that member nations obtain all resources used in the actual physical construction phase of land reclamation projects in a manner with minimal damage to the environment;
- Requires that impact studies be conducted by the Environmental Survey of the World Assembly (ESWA) to evaluate whether any land reclamation causes any of the following:
- the extinction of any animal species residing in the land being reclaimed,
- significant disruption to a food chain involving endangered or rare animals,
- loss of plant or fungal species with a particular, known, unique importance to medicine,
- Prohibits member nations from moving forward with a land reclamation project if the ESWA deems a place not suitable to reclaim land or if the land reclamation projects drain or destroy coral reefs, mangrove wetlands or other exceptionally biodiverse areas;
- Encourages member nations to use other less environmentally destructive methods to alleviate overpopulation while also minimizing the ecological and environmental impact of land reclamation; and
- States that clause 1 of this resolution shall apply to both freshwater and saltwater land reclamations projects while the rest of this resolution will only apply to all land reclamations projects in saltwater environments.
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