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  • This house would implement the Environmental Credit Score System

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    An Environmental Credit Score (ECS) is a metric designed to evaluate and quantify the environmental impact of an individual based on key factors such as their carbon footprint, resource consumption, waste management, energy efficiency, pollution and emissions. The ECS would be used for, but not limited to, employment decisions, consumer choices, policy-making, etc.

    Asia Novice Debate Open 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-07-12

  • This house believes that the financialization of the economy is fundamentally incompatible with sustainable development.

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    Financialization refers to the increasing role of financial motives, markets, actors, and institutions in the operation of the domestic and international economies.

    Bicol Intervarsity 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-07-06

  • This house believes that the financialization of the economy is fundamentally incompatible with sustainable development.

    Infoslide

    Financialization refers to the increasing role of financial motives, markets, actors, and institutions in the operation of the domestic and international economies.

    Bicol Intervarsity 2024 · High School Semifinals · 2024-07-06

  • This house, as Donald Trump, R distancing himself from Project 2025

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    The Heritage Foundation is a conservative thinktank that worked closely with the Trump 2016 administration. It established Project 2025 in 2023, after civil servants refused to support Trump during his attempt to institute a Muslim travel ban. The project proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers (whose positions are retained through different administrations as political appointees (whose positions are appointed by the current President). The Project also aims to reduce environmentalism, reproductive rights, labor protections and immigration amongst other things. Trump has disavowed Project 2025

    Bicol Intervarsity 2024 · Round 5 · 2024-07-06

  • This house opposes deep-sea mining in Africa

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    Deep-sea mining primarily involves exploring and potentially extracting mineral resources from the seabed within the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) of African coastal countries. While the industry is still in its nascent stages, several African countries are showing interest in the potential benefits of deep-sea mining due to the rich mineral resources found in their offshore areas. However, experts have warned of the various potential risks and costs of the billion dollar industry.

    Bicol Intervarsity 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-07-06

  • That we support the proposed expansion of the public interest test.

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    When a business in the UK is subject to a foreign takeover, the takeover must be approved by the government using the 'public interest test'. The current public interest test takes into account national security, diversity of media ownership, and the stability of the financial sector. There has been a proposal to expand the public interest test to also take into account effects on sustainability, jobs and the broader health of the economy.

    Jakarta Australasian Intervarsity Debate Championships 2024 · Octofinals · 2024-07-01

  • That we support Indonesia's revision of their green investment rulebook.

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    Indonesia's green investment rulebook categorises types of projects based on their alignment with Indonesia's net-zero emissions goal by 2060. It is used to decide the level of government support (e.g. tax breaks, subsidies) that projects receive. In February 2024, Indonesia revised the rulebook to categorise coal-fired power plants for nickel facilities as "green" (i.e. aligned with net-zero 2060) and captive coal power plants and mining of critical minerals as "amber" (i.e. could support the transition to net-zero if they meet specific criteria). Previously, these projects were not considered to contribute to the net-zero transition.

    Jakarta Australasian Intervarsity Debate Championships 2024 · Octofinals · 2024-07-01

  • This house believes that the environmental movement should oppose all multinational corporations without net-zero targets, regardless of lessening targets

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    Over 1,000 multinational corporations have set science-based targets to reduce their carbon emissions. Some have committed to net-zero targets, while others have not, instead having targets to lessen their emissions.

    Debatable Open 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-06-30

  • This house believes that the environmentalist movement should aggressively push for the introduction of environmental personhood into national and international legal systems

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    Environmental personhood is a legal concept that bestows natural entities, such as rivers, mountains, forests, or even specific ecosystems, with legal personhood enabling “nature” to be protected in a court of law. This legal transformation allows advocates and activists to take legal action on behalf of these natural entities, often in an attempt to combat environmental degradation.

    Queen's WSDC 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-06-29