Ma'at Kheru: Repeal "Renewable Research Commitment"

[Treize Dreizehn]

Repeal "Renewable Research Commitment"

A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.


Category: Repeal


Resolution: GA#182


Proposed by: Alchemic Queendom Description: WA General Assembly Resolution #182: Renewable Research Commitment (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: All Businesses) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The World Assembly,

Supporting the general principle of developing sustainable energy sources,

However:

Taking issue with World Assembly Resolution #182, “Renewable Research Commitment”, which:

Requires each individual nation in the WA to separately research renewable energy sources, creating the probability of overlaps and conflicts,

Ignores the potential for collaboration among nations to allow for specialisation of research interests,

Fails to recognise that advances made in one nation and shared to other nations, through trade, mutual assistance, or other forms of partnership, may be of significant value to the world community,

Suggests an arbitrary “5%” commitment from fossil-fuel power plants with no indication of how this number was arrived at or whether it will be sufficient to produce meaningful results,

Appears to disregard environmental science in favour of bland political platitudes of little substance,

Takes no account of issues relating to sustainable energy development, such as grid modernisation or energy conservation,

Permits nations to completely disregard renewable energy research regardless of any advances made,

Places absolutely no requirements on nations to implement any renewable energy research measures whatsoever,

And further:

Acknowledging that this resolution prevents the World Assembly passing meaningful legislation on sustainable energy,

Believing that this impediment to world cooperation in sustainable energy research and development should be removed,

Hereby:

Repeals World Assembly Resolution #182, “Renewable Research Commitment”.

[Treize Dreizehn]

A short but sweet explanation of my vote nay on this repeal(which is unusual for me). The repeal is wrong. The original resolution has a major flaw in that it names an actual percentage(5%) but other than that it's fairly unintrusive. The primary issues with it are that it doesn't do enough, which is preferable. And it doesn't actually block meaningful future resolutions on the topic in question(as the repeal author seems to think it does), because it does hardly anything concrete.

I could see this getting repealed in the future. But not now. I recommend a vote of Nay.