The General Assembly,
Concerned by air pollutants, which can lead to damage to health, property, and environment, and understanding the inherent danger in leaving them unchecked, given that they can and often are spread across international borders by wind,
Recognizing previous attempts to promote sustainable atmospheric environments, but aware they do not address many pollutants that pose serious risk,
Believing that such air pollutants should be monitored and controlled, as they constitute an immense menace to the international community through their damage to people's health, property, wildlife, and environmental sustainability, and that the previously existing Atmospheric Chemistry Establishment (ACE) should responsible for them,
Hereby,
§ 1. Defines, for the purpose of this legislation, “listed pollutants” as constituting any and all of the following substances which are anthropogenic:
- Particle Pollution
- Ground Level Ozone
- All Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxins, except those that classify as toxic heavy metals
- All Volatile Organic Compounds
- Nitrogen Oxides
- Sulfur Dioxide
§ 2. Mandates that the Atmospheric Chemistry Establishment creates limits for each member nation on the amount each listed pollutants that can be emitted in a year, which shall be determined to be both reasonable to achieve and maximally healthy for both the residents of the member state and its environment,
§ 3. Tasks member states with monitoring the levels of the listed pollutants, through testing and observation, the results of which they will provide to ACE,
§ 4. Requires that all member states adhere to the emissions limits set by ACE, except if the member state can prove that to do so was infeasible,
§ 5. Creates pollution licenses, to be sold and maintained by ACE, which allow member states to exceed the emissions limits set by ACE by the specific amount listed on the license, and allows the trade of these licenses between member states,
§ 6. Urges member states to promote acts which lead to a clean atmosphere among their populace, and to implement emissions trading schemes within their own economies, so as to help achieve the emissions limits set by ACE,
§ 7. Encourages member states to attempt to peacefully persuade non-member states to follow emissions limits set specifically for them, which ACE will provide upon request, and to act in international goodwill on the subject of air pollutants.
