Description: To promote the free and open trade of "green" technologies between WA member nations, with the goal of reducing the cost to a cleaner society. The cost savings shall be reflected in future climate bills before this assembly.
Defining: "Green technology" as any new product, facility, power generation, or production technique that can be used to reduce or eliminate greenhouse gases, that are non-nuclear in nature.
Further Defining: "Greenhouse gases" as any pollutant harmful to the world's atmosphere with the potential to alter, or change the environment of our planet by absorbing and emitting radiation within the thermal radiation range, such as, but not limited to: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone.
Recognizing: The prohibitive cost to some nations of developing green technologies on their own.
Further Recognizing: The need to begin stemming the harmful pollutants in our atmosphere, and the need to keep the local environment of developing nations as clean and livable as is practical.
Section 1. Encourages the free, fair and open trade and transfer of all green technologies, products, contracted construction of facilities, and production techniques that are specifically aimed at reducing or eliminating environmentally harmful waste.
Section 2. Authorizes the establishment of the International Climate Change Commission in order to:
- A). Collect donations from governments, NGOs and other types of organizations, corporations, and other non-profits, as well as from individuals.
-- I. All funding operations shall be used from these sources only, unless otherwise allowed to dip into the WA Fund with 3/4ths votes from the Security Council.
-- II. The ICCC shall not collect taxes from any nation, whether WA or non-WA member nations. Nations, organizations, and individuals may donate on their own freewill.
- B). Help facilitate the exchange/transfer of all green technologies between nations.
- C). Appoint experts and advisors to nations who are struggling with environmental issues.
-- I. Shall conduct land surveys in order to determine the best possible locations for windmill farms, solar generators, hydroelectric and other forms of green energy production, and use.
-- II. Shall appoint the lowest-bidding construction company to build such facilities as stated in part a, section iii of clause 2, if the host nation successfully is granted the funds from the ICCC.
-- III. Shall help begin the training process of the host nation's engineers to learn this process of building, and maintaining the new technologies.
-- IV. Shall assist in the development of newer green technologies within certain nations that have the scientific capacity to do so.
----- i. "Assistance" shall mean any extra funding, material donations, ICCC scientific personnel, and funding for new/leased facilities.
----- ii. Any nation which receives assistance from the ICCC in developing newer green technology shall forfeit all trading rights for the purposes of trading compensations, and the new ICCC-developed technology shall be freely disbursed throughout the world, regardless of WA membership.
- D) Work closely with the WA Environmental Council that was set up in GA Resolution #42.
-- I. All the scientific data, surveys, and published records of the WAEC shall be a valuable resource that could be used in the aid of the ICCC's own land survey studies of host nations for future green technologies.
-- II. All the data collected from the WAEC shall also be used to determine which nations need the most help in implementing green technologies, and where green technologies shall do the most good.
Section 3. Believes the ongoing cost-savings to each individual nation for environmental reform shall be ongoing, and will provide other, fringe, benefits to international society as a whole .
- A). Shall provide extra jobs.
- B). Shall provide cleaner local living standards for each citizen.
- C). Shall help to alleviate crime a bit due to Sections I and II of this clause.
The free trade agreement shall not be construed as to place undue hardship on those nations who have put it upon themselves to research and develop green technologies. Reasonable compensation shall be provided to those nations, in order to help the worldwide environment as a whole.
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