[DRAFT] The Carbon-Light energy Act

[The Federated Provinces of the North]

The Carbon-light Energy Act

Regulation|Energy

Purpose:To regulate the means of which a nation can produce energy in an effort to reduce global carbon emissions.

Description: Recognising that providing additional funding and economic incentives towards the production of energy in a carbon-neutral or carbon-light way will encourage businesses to use carbon-light or carbon-neutral energy sources over carbon-heavy energy sources. These very same incentives will also encourage economic growth by creating a competitive and innovative environment.

Hereby requires governments to:

1.) Provide economic funding and incentives to encourage businesses to switch to and/or develop new methods of producing energy in a carbon-light or carbon-neutral fashion.

2.) Increase taxes on carbon-heavy energy sources (i.e. coal, oil, natural gas, etc.) in an effort to dissuade businesses from using and/or producing carbon-heavy energy sources.

3.) Create tax incentives for education systems who educate their students on carbon-light and carbon-neutral energy sources and production.

4.) Have at minimum 40% of your nation’s energy production produced by carbon-light and/or carbon-neutral energy sources by the end of the 5th fiscal year, starting on the day this act gets enacted.

[The Federated Provinces of the North]

Seeing as I am relatively new here, I would like your honest opinion on this. If it's good, great. If it's bad, also great. In my opinion, mistakes are just as important as succeeding.

[Grays Harbor]

First, we’re not all on one planet. The WA is comprised of 10’s of thousands of nations on thousands of worlds.

Second, a lot of what you have here seems to be covered already in Resolution 357 Promotion of Clean Energy. viewtopic.php?p=27599850#p27599850

Your formatting looks ok though, even if this is illegal for duplication, so there is that. And you posted here first for debate, so you got that hurdle covered as well.

[Araraukar]

OOC: I honestly thought this was about carbon filament light bulbs.

In addition to what GH said, you don't define carbon-light and carbon-heavy, so any reference to them is pretty moot. Also, where is that "purpose - description" format from? Several newbies have used it in their first drafts recently. It's not normal for GA proposals/resolutions.

[The Federated Provinces of the North]

About the description thing, I honestly just thought of that by myself. It’s probably school seeing as my English teacher would probably want me to specify what the description was.

[Araraukar]

About the description thing, I honestly just thought of that by myself. It’s probably school seeing as my English teacher would probably want me to specify what the description was.

OOC: I do keep telling people that GA proposals aren't school essays.

Are you familiar with the passed resolutions thread on this forum? It's easy to search with specific keywords (just remember that as long as the search function is concerned, "book" and "books" are completely unrelated words) or just prowl through. Reading through is suggested not just to see what all has already been dealt with, but also to see what resolutions are supposed to look like in terms of structure and formatting and language.

[Terttia]

OOC: I honestly thought this was about carbon filament light bulbs.

I agree with this!

[Imperium Anglorum]

Greenhouse gas emissions are dealt with in GA 445 "Greenhouse Cap and Trade Program".