Category: Education and Creativity
Area of effect: Eduction
The General Assembly,
Recognizing the importance of the climate which is shared in trust between all nations,
Intending to create a structured environmental data system aiming to ensure that environmental and other sustainable projects are considered effectively in policy, plan, and program making.
Hereby,
- 1. Establishes the Strategic Environmental Assessment System, also known as SEAS, which will be tasked with:
- a. Gathering existing relevant climatic and environmental information (herein referred to simply as "information") from Member States,
- b. Conducting original climatic and environmental research regarding:
- i. Current and potential future environmental hazards, especially hazards related to global air pollution/quality,
- ii. Potential improvements that can be made to Member State's general environmental policy and specifically towards air quality controls and hazards,
- iii. The efficacy of sustainability programs which may already be underway in a Member State,
- iv. The environmental impact of proposed public projects or developments within a Member State,
- c. Systematizing information into comprehensive Environmental Assessment Reports, or EAR's, which shall:
- i. Provide Member States:
- 1. Recommendations for future sustainable development with several longitudinal outlooks measuring potential air quality and ecological contaminants based on pursued policy initiatives,
- 2. Warnings regarding harmful environmental hazards,
- 3. A report on the efficacy of current sustainability projects,
- d. Creating publicly available Environmental Research Reports, or ERR's, which are generalized reports meant for universal consumption by all Member States for the purpose of advancing general knowledge in climatic and environmental research,
- 2. Urges all Member States provide to SEAS any existing research or data which is both declassified/public in nature AND deemed by SEAS to be valuable to the formulation of EAR or ERR reports,
- 3. Permits non-governmental scientific research groups to contribute environmental research in the organization phase of the formulation of EAR and/or ERR reports with the understanding that they may negotiate compensation for the licensing of such material to SEAS,
- 4. Mandates all reports are published free of charge,
- 5. Permits Member States to restrict public access to their respective EAR reports on an unconditional basis,