Environmental - All Industries - Strong
The World Assembly,
Acknowledging that within some member nations, the concept of global warming due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases remains controversial,
Convinced, however, that the preponderance of the scientific evidence shows that some 'greenhouse gases', such as carbon dioxide and methane, allow energy through a planet's atmosphere at the visible and shortwave infrared wavelengths primarily generated by stars while reflecting energy at longwave thermal wavelengths radiated by a planet, thus creating a warming effect for that planet's atmosphere,
Concerned over the many potential negative impacts scientific consensus has found this warming to have directly or indirectly on ecosystems and populations, including more extreme natural disasters: such as droughts, fire, heat waves, hurricanes, and flooding; disruption and temporal shifting of seasonal cycles at a rate faster than many organisms can adapt, sea level rise and acidification; crop failures; and desertification,
Aware that many nation's economies are built around fossil fuels and desiring to seek a solution that is minimally disruptive to economies while addressing this pressing problem,
Concluding that the most efficient and cheapest regulatory framework to abate greenhouse gasses is one that caps the total amount of emissions and divides up credits for the permissible emissions among nations while allowing the voluntary trading of emissions credits between nations,
Hereby, subject to any limits set by earlier GA resolutions that are still in force,
Charges WASP's Atmospheric Chemistry Establishment (ACE) to regulate emissions of greenhouse gasses in the following manner:
1) Set a total global annual target for the amount non-natural release of greenhouse gasses such as carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide, based on current global emissions, scientific climate models for the impact of the gasses, decay rate of the gasses, and the global economic impact of the cap;
2) Distribute allowable emissions credits for each regulated greenhouse gas among member nations and credits establishing preferred targets for non-member nations proportional to their total populations and present economic output, the global population, and the global cap;
3) Establish (i) punitive fees for emissions beyond the cap for member nations, and, (ii) tariffs on the trade goods produced by non-member nations whose emissions exceed their prefered targets which all member nations shall enforce, the proceeds of both will first go to GRAA's monitoring and enforcement efforts and any remaining monies will go towards grants to fund the research, development, and implementation of green energy;
4) Establish an exchange for the voluntary trade of emissions credits open to all nations and private organizations, such that some nations may exceed their initially allotted emission without punishment via buying credits from other nations or private organizations;
5) Create an annual schedule of diminishing total global caps for various gasses until a level modeled to be globally sustainable based on scientific models is met;
6) Monitor the net emissions of individual nations taking into account both greenhouse gas emissions and sequestration via voluntary disclosures and other non-invasive methods;
Notes that individual nations will determine how to best meet their preferred target internally; and;
Clarifies that greenhouse gas emissions through natural sources, such as volcanoes, will not be considered by GRAA.
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