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  • This house regrets end-of-world narratives when advocating for climate change policy

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    Infoslide: End-of-World narratives are portrayals that emphasize the potential destruction of the earth if global warming continues. This includes statistics of potential climate refugees, renderings of the future dystopia, or emotionally strong language.

    Paris World Schools Debate Championship 2024 · Novice Final · 2024-03-29

  • This house supports Eco-terrorism.

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    Eco-terrorism refers to violent actions taken by individuals or groups to protect the environment, often targeting industries perceived as harming nature.For eg. bursting oil pipelines, damaging factories etc.

    IIT Kanpur APD 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-03-29

  • This house supports the implementation of CBAMs

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    A Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a tool to incentivize the decarbonization of global supply chains. In simple terms, it works like a tariff to imports, where the level depends on how much emissions were used in the production of that good. The European Union (EU), for example, started to implement CBAMs on October 2023.

    Manila Pro-Am 2024: Pre-UADC · Grand Final · 2024-03-23

  • This house supports the rise of investors prioritising ESG as an investment criteria.

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    ESG is a set of considerations, including environmental issues (E), social issues (S), and corporate governance (G) that can be considered in the valuation of, and investment in, firms. Each component of ESG represent the three main areas that companies globally are ideally expected to report and disclose. Rating agencies like Thomson Reuters typically use both firm data and external data to score firms’ ESG performance.

    Manila Pro-Am 2024: Pre-UADC · Round 2 · 2024-03-23

  • This house supports the environmental movement's shift towards climate litigation

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    Climate change litigation, also known as climate litigation, is an emerging body of environmental law using legal practice to set case law precedents to further climate change mitigation efforts from public institutions, such as governments and companies.

    Manila Pro-Am 2024: Pre-UADC · Grand Final · 2024-03-23

  • That the Australian government should incentivise Australian firms to supply American green transition projects (e.g., supplying nickel and lithium) rather than subsidise domestic green corporations (e.g., subsidising battery research)

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    The Biden administration's 'Inflation Reduction Act' directs nearly US$400 billion federal funding to support clean energy through tax breaks, grants and loan guarantees. Its goal is to halve US emissions by 2035."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":801,"3":{"1":0},"8":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":0}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":3}]},"11":4,"12":0}" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The Biden administration's 'Inflation Reduction Act' directs nearly US$400 billion federal funding to support clean energy through tax breaks, grants and loan guarantees. Its goal is to halve US emissions by 2035.

    Melbourne Pre Easters 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-03-22

  • ECCQ el movimiento ambientalista debería adoptar una estrategia de activismo fragmentado.

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    Para efectos de este debate, el activismo fragmentado es una estrategia de lobby y activismo que consiste en fragmentar los movimientos en distintas facciones alineadas a distintas ideologías. Tiene como objetivo apelar a los esquemas ideológicos de distintos grupos o partidos.</p><p>Por ejemplo, una facción ambientalista podría apelar a sectores nacionalistas, enfatizando el papel de los ecosistemas en el orgullo nacional mientras que otra facción independiente podría apelar a sectores socialistas, enfatizando los impactos del cambio climático en la clase obrera.

    Torneo Rosarista de Debate VIII 2024 - Categoría Universidades · Ronda 5 · 2024-03-22

  • This house supports Stratospheric Aerosol Injections (SAIs)

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    Stratospheric Aerosol Injections (SAIs) are a method of geoengineering of releasing particles into the stratosphere to cool the Earth's surface by reflecting sunlight. Advocates liken its effectiveness to natural volcanic occurrences, and it is scientifically proven to work. However, we have yet to develop planes which can fly at the altitude necessary to disperse SAIs, and we predict that it will be quite expensive to deploy (tens of billions per degree celsius cooler the planet becomes). Concerns linger about their potential to disrupt weather patterns, and once initiated, halting SAIs could lead to abrupt and severe temperature spikes, necessitating a commitment to continuous deployment.

    EDS Spring High School Tournament 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-03-20

  • This House Prefers the Kyoto protocol mechanism to the Paris Agreement

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    The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change produced two major CO2 emission reduction mechanisms: the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 created a top-down system that assigned binding emission targets to industrialised nations only. The Paris Agreement of 2015, on the other hand, created a bottom-up approach where all countries, including less developed nations, set their own goals.

    Hong Kong Junior Schools Debating Championship 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-03-16

  • This house supports the creation of an international court to prosecute "crimes against the earth."

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    International courts are neutral bodies not affiliated with any single country that adjudicates disputes between nations or international affairs. Cases are judged by a panel of judges appointed from different nations. Examples of international courts include, but are not limited to, the International Criminal Court (ICC), International Court of Justice (ICJ), European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Crimes against the Earth are acts that directly or indirectly cause harm to the environment, for instance mass deforestation, destruction of ecosystems, etc.

    Nanke Invitational Forensics Tournament 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-03-09

  • This house, as the environmental movement, W dissociate themselves with the degrowth movement.

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    <p>The degrowth movement advocates for a reduction in global production and consumption as the only way to ensure the future of humanity and preservation of the planet.</p>

    Oxford Schools' Final Day 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-03-09

  • This house supports the creation of an international court to prosecute "crimes against the earth."

    Infoslide

    International courts are neutral bodies not affiliated with any single country that adjudicates disputes between nations or international affairs. Cases are judged by a panel of judges appointed from different nations. Examples of international courts include, but are not limited to, the International Criminal Court (ICC), International Court of Justice (ICJ), European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Crimes against the Earth are acts that directly or indirectly cause harm to the environment, for instance mass deforestation, destruction of ecosystems, etc.

    Nanke Invitational Forensics Tournament 2024 · Novice Final · 2024-03-09