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  • This house believes that the EU should stop the implementation of CBAM

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    A Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a policy designed to address carbon leakage and ensure fair competition in international trade by adjusting the carbon cost of imports. It works by imposing a carbon tariff on imported goods based on their carbon emissions during production. This means that if a country has strict carbon emission regulations, it can apply an equivalent carbon cost to products imported from countries with less stringent regulations. The goal is to encourage global adoption of carbon reduction practices and protect domestic industries from unfair competition due to differing environmental standards. The EU is implementing CBAM, applying in its definitive regime from 2026, while the current transitional phase lasts between 2023 and 2025. Yet, BRICs countries and other developing countries have shown resistance to CBAM.

    JPDU Autumn Tournament 2024 · Open Pre-Semi Finals · 2024-10-19

  • This house, as the United States, would lift restrictions from ATACMS

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    Ukraine is seeking permission to use American ATACMS missiles, which have a range of up to 300km, to target Russian military positions deep in Russian territory. While Britain and France have allowed the use of their missiles, the U.S. has so far restricted ATACMS.

    Bhaavarth Pre-WUDC fundraiser 2024 · Open Quarter Finals · 2024-10-15

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of English football to find Manchester City guilty

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    Manchester City, the most successful English football team of the last decade, is owned by Sheikh Mansour, the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, and vice chairman of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund. The club has been charged with 115 counts of fraud due to violating financial fair play regulations, including allegations of financial misreporting, undisclosed remuneration, and lack of cooperation with the investigation. If the club is found to be guilty, they will be stripped of all their championships and might also get demoted to the second tier of English football. The UAE government is believed to have lobbied the UK government to acquit Manchester City of the charges

    LUMS Asians 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-10-12

  • Assuming Netflix renews the series for a 7th season, this House supports Meghan Markle being cast to play Meghan Markle on 'The Crown'

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    _The Crown_ is a historical drama series that chronicles the life of Queen Elizabeth II and the British royal family. Spanning decades, it offers a fictionalised glimpse into the personal lives and political challenges faced by the monarchy, blending historical events with dramatised interpretations of their private moments behind palace doors. (_Real World_ rules apply)

    UQ Fictional IV 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-10-12

  • This house prefers to have been born as a Baby Boomer rather than as Gen Z in Greece.

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    According to Strauss and Howe's generational theory, in the Western World, the Baby Boomers are the generation born between 1946 and 1963. In Greece, this generation experienced events such as the Junta of the Colonels and the Polytechnic uprising during their youthful years, and later on, the Metapolitefsi (political changeover) and the economic boom of the '90s and 2000s as adults. They are called Baby Boomers due to the significant increase in birth rates, as in most Western countries, it is the generation with the highest number of births. Generation Z (Gen Z) is the generation born between 1997 and 2012. Adults from Gen Z in Greece experienced the period of economic prosperity and the Olympic Games in their early years and grew up during the financial crisis of 2008, having lived through the COVID-19 pandemic in their early adulthood or late adolescence.

    11ο Πρωτάθλημα Ρητορικού Ομίλου Οικονομικού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών · Grand Final · 2024-10-10

  • This house would stop consuming the concotion

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    You are Dr. Jekyll living in early 19th century Edinburgh. You find Victorian society, and its standards of moral deceny (eg. Evangelicalism, high work ethic, extreme prudeness, etc.) to be stifling and tedious. In response, you have conditioned yourself to be soft-spoken, humble, prudish, and demure. You no longer have the skills or confidence to express your feelings and desires to be arrogant, passionate and sexual. You have invented a chemical concoction which eliminates the conditioning you have placed on yourself. It temporarily gives you with the confidence and skills you were lacking. You privately tested it in small dosages, but it often leaves you feeling uneasy and nauseous. This concotion transforms you into a dashing handsome figure which no one recognises as Dr. Jekyll. One day, under the influence of the concoction, you see a ghost and realise you can communicate with them.

    Edinburgh Cup 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-09-28

  • THO the arrest of Telegram's CEO

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    Telegram is a social media and messaging platform which uses an extremely secure encryption network. Telegram's CEO, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France on November 18. The arrest is part of an ongoing criminal investigation led by French authorities. The inquiry focuses on allegations regarding Telegram’s role in facilitating criminal activities through its platform. Critics claim the platform’s encryption and limited moderation have been exploited for illegal purposes.

    Penn Pre-WUDC 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-09-24

  • This house believes that the Operation Anthropoid was morally illegitimate

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    During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak resistance operatives carried out an assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most prominent and curel Nazi leaders. At the time, Heydrich served as the governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The operation, known as ‘Operation Anthropoid,’ targeted Heydrich and led to his death. In response, the SS troops undertook a series of brutal reprisals, which included the destruction of villages and the killing of civilians.

    Prague Open 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-09-20

  • This House would abolish the Common Agricultural Policy

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    The Common Agricultural Policy is a framework established by the European Union to support its agricultural sector. It involves significant subsidies to European farmers, import tariffs and quotas on non-EU producers, rural development and technological R&D programs, and minimum environmental standards.

    Australian British Parliamentary Debating Championships 2024 · Round 6 · 2024-09-07

  • This house believes that the further alignment of the Common Agricultural Policy with the European Green Deal will do more harm than good

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    The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is an EU policy aimed at supporting farmers and promoting sustainable rural development across the region. Initially, its primary focus was on increasing agricultural productivity and stabilizing markets, primarily through direct financial aid to farmers. However, ever since the European Green Deal—EU's ambitious strategy to achieve climate neutrality by 2050—was established in 2019, the CAP gradually attempts to align itself with the deal, aiming to make agriculture more resilient to climate change by encouraging practices that contribute to climate goals.

    Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship 2024 · Octofinals · 2024-09-07

  • This house believes that it is in Ukraine's interest for Zelenskyy to take a strong offensive approach against Russia till the US elections in November

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    Recently, the Ukrainian Government under President Volodymyr Zelenskyy launched an offensive in the Kursk region in Russia, which has been broadly considered as one of the biggest counter offensives that Ukraine has launched since the start of the war. Zelensky claims to have control over the territory, but Russia has disputed the claims on the extent of the incursion The Biden Administration is currently providing massive amounts of military to Zelensky’s regime, which has received significant political backlash back in the US.

    Muntazar Asian Parliamentary Debate · Round 4 · 2024-09-07

  • THW give the Scottish Youth Parliament a seat in the Scottish Parliament

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    The Scottish Youth Parliament is an non-partisan elected body designed to represent the views of young people aged 12-25. The Scottish Youth Parliament can try to persuade government to make policy changes in the interest of young people, but has no direct influence on policy.

    Ayr Schools 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-08-31