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Reducing Automobile Emissions
Category: Environmental | Industry Affected: Automobile Manufacturing | Proposed by: Abacathea​

Description: Commending the efforts of many WA member-states to improving the quality of the environment and their willingness to adapt feasible approaches towards achieving this goal;

Believing that the reduction of waste emissions from the automotive industry is an international issue with significant climate implications and that no simple solutions exist to tackling these issues;

Noting that waste products and emissions from mechanical forms of transportation such as cars, buses, trains, shipping, and air travel, constitute a significant source of atmospheric pollutants, and believing that every nation and industry should accept a collective responsibility and affirmative response attitude towards lowering their output of these pollutants;

The General Assembly;

1: Defines, for the purposes of this resolution;
"automobile" as a mechanically propelled vehicle designed for the carriage of goods or people powered in part or fully by an engine or likewise device, and
"emissions" as gases released into the atmosphere that are established to be harmful to persons or the natural environment,

2: Mandates, under this resolution;
(i) A requirement of all member nations to take any and all economically viable measures to reduce automobile emissions;

(ii) The establishment of the International Automobile Emissions Commission (IAEC) with the following mandate:
-to create procedures for the collection and publishing of automobile emissions data by member nations and automobile manufacturers,
-to establish recommended automobile emissions standards based on this data,
-to submit an annual report to the World Assembly on automobile emissions in member nations, including projections of future automobile emissions and progress towards the implementation of IAEC standards;

3: Further requires all member nations and automobile manufacturers to implement IAEC reporting standards;

4: Encourages member nations to incentivize the development of automobile emission reduction technologies, as well as the modification or replacement of in-service automobiles producing excessive emissions;

5: Further encourages member nations to share effective emissions reduction technologies with other nations.

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You can view the debate on the proposal to date in the NS Forum Discussion Thread. Please vote For, Against, Abstain, or Present in this thread.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you change your vote, please do not edit your post to reflect this. Please post again clearly stating you are changing your vote. This is to ensure your updated vote is counted.

Tally: 4-3-1-0

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Ministry of WA Affairs Review
by Minister Sanctarian WA Mission

Resolution Name: Reducing Automobile Emissions

Category: Environmental | Area Effected: Automobile Manufacturing | Author: Abacathea

The goal of this resolution is to reduce harmful gases being emitted from automobiles and damaging both public health and the environment. It aims to achieve this in, primarily, two ways.

Firstly, it mandates that all nations take any and all economically viable steps to reduce automobile emissions (the resolution also defines both automobile and emissions so as to try and be as unambiguous as possible). The "economically viable" part is very important, as without it it would effectively mandate all nations to remove any and all gaseous emissions from their automobiles, which could ruin quite the number of economies. Thankfully this seems to have been avoided thanks to those two words.

Secondly, it establishes the International Automobile Emissions Commission to investigate and compile reports on automobile emissions on each nation, and then authorises it to establish standards based on these details. It then requires each nation to implement the standards as directed by the IAEC.

The rest of the resolution contains what are considered "optional" clauses, in that nations are not mandated or required to do anything, but merely encouraged. In this case, the resolution encourages nations to share emission reduction technologies with other nations, and also encourages nations to provide incentives to help develop new technologies that reduce automobile emissions even further.

As far as resolutions go, this is relatively non-invasive, and although it forces nations to reduce their emissions, nations are still allowed to protect their economy by only taking steps that are economically viable. A new layer of international bureaucracy is created, but as WA committees go, doesn't seem to be that intrusive, and actually seems to be quite limited in its job specifics.

Based on this, the Ministry of WA Affairs recommends a vote in favour of this resolution. Please be advised, however, that the recommendation is only that, and you do not have to vote as we have suggested; your WA vote is your own, and you are free to vote however so you choose.

Against.

For

Against

The Resolution Review and official Ministry voting recommendation have been edited into the OP.

Against

1-3-0-0. Voted against.

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For

I'm surprised the Minister recommended a vote in favour and then voted against :p

Abstain

mcmasterdonia:

I'm surprised the Minister recommended a vote in favour and then voted against :p

Abstain

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I tried to look at it in an objective manner for the good of TNP.

My own objection is because I'm a stats player and I vote against certain categories all the time.

For

Vote withdrawn.

Reducing Automobile Emissions was passed 8,365 votes to 2,390.

Topic moved to WA Archives.

Voting on this resolution has ended.

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