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  • This house regrets the use of exotic animals as tools for diplomacy.

    Infoslide

    Panda diplomacy refers to China's practice of sending giant pandas to other countries, primarily as a tool of diplomacy and wildlife conservation. Initially, pandas were gifted, but since 1984, they have been leased due to a policy change. This strategy is a form of soft power, aiming to foster positive international relations and boost China's image abroad by leveraging the pandas' universal appeal. In 2024, Malaysia's Plantation and Commodities Minister Johari Abdul Ghani had suggested giving orangutans to major palm oil importers to bolster relations.

    Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Quarterfinals · 2025-08-18

  • This House opposes buying forests to offset carbon emissions.

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    Private companies have increasingly acquired or funded forest areas, presenting this as part of wider climate and sustainability initiatives. These actions are often linked to carbon offset schemes, where credits are purchased to balance emissions by supporting projects that reduce or absorb carbon dioxide.

    Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Octofinals · 2025-08-18

  • This house believes that the U.S. should continue to pursue policies which encourage oil production domestically (e.g. funding oil refineries, expanding fracking licenses, relaxing taxes on relevant firms, releasing strategic oil reserves into the market etc...)

    St Andrews pre-EUDC 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-08-13

  • This house believes that climate activists in vulnerable Philippine coastal and island communities (e.g., in Caramoan, Siargao, and the Lapu-Lapu Island) should prioritize evacuation and relocation efforts (e.g., securing climate refugee pathways, relocating communities and species, and preserving traditional fishing rights) over local adaptation strategies (e.g., constructing sea walls, land elevation, or lobbying for international climate policy reforms).

    Visayas Intervarsity 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-08-09

  • This house would heavily invest in Indigenous Ecological Knowledge for biodiversity conservation in the Philippines

    Infoslide

    Indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK) in the Philippines is a rich system of environmental understanding rooted in the lifeways of Indigenous Peoples, such as the Ifugao, Dumagat, and Manobo. It guides sustainable farming, forest stewardship, and species protection based on generations of lived experience. However, recent decades have seen a sharp decline in the use and transmission of IEK.

    Grassroots Debate Open Pre-NDC 2025 · Open Semifinals · 2025-08-02

  • This house, as Salumay, would reject the offer

    Infoslide

    Buklod-Katawhan is a grassroots organization rooted in the ancestral values of Kalinaw, a rural town in Mindanao. Led by Salumay, the daughter of a tribal chieftain, the group actively resists destructive mining and agro-industrial projects that threaten indigenous land, livelihood, and cultural identity. Despite its deep community support, Buklod-Katawhan faces chronic shortages in legal, financial, and logistical resources, relying mostly on volunteer work and modest local donations to sustain its advocacy. As local elections near, a powerful political party offers legal aid, funding, and media coverage in exchange for the public endorsement of its candidates.

    Grassroots Debate Open Pre-NDC 2025 · Open Finals · 2025-08-02

  • This house supports quarrying operations in Albay

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    There are currently 135+ permitted private quarry operators in the province of Albay, with most conducting their operations in the surrounding areas of the Mayon volcano. The quarry industry offers the province nearly 10 million pesos in revenue monthly, and the fund is planned to be used for various community programs. However, environmentalists and activist groups have opposed quarrying operations, as it has historically worsened the effects of natural disasters (floods, volcanic eruptions, landslides) to nearby municipalities.

    Bicol Debate Union Rookies Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-08-02

  • This house supports the environmental movement’s shift from dark green to light green sustainability

    Infoslide

    Dark Green or Ecocentric Sustainability refers to the notion that it is the earth which is more important than ideas about human progress and economic growth, while Light Green or Technocentric Sustainability focus is on humankind and the improvement in human standards of living and quality of life.

    Bicol Debate Union Rookies Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-02

  • In developing countries, This house would subsidize Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that comply with ESG standards

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    Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) is a corporate framework for evaluating a company's sustainability and ethical impact (e.g. measuring carbon footprints (E), labor practices (S), and executive transparency (G)

    Bicol Debate Union Rookies Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-02

  • This house, as president Vučić, would allow project Jadar to be realised.

    Infoslide

    "Project Jadar is a lithium mining project set to be realised in western Serbia by multinational British-Australian company Rio Tinto. The Serbian government revoked licences for this project in January 2022 after a set of long environmental protests. Two years later, in 2024, the Serbian president stated that the government wants to hold further talks with Rio Tinto. On the 4th June 2025, the European Commission recognised project Jadar as one among 13 new strategic projects related to critical raw materials in third countries."

    Imperial Intervarsity 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-07-26

  • This house would acquire full national ownership over the Buhawind Offshore Windfarm

    Infoslide

    Ilocos Norte is home to three of Southeast Asia’s largest wind farms: the Bangui, Burgos, and Caparispisan (North Luzon Renewables) wind farms. All were developed through foreign partnerships (primarily with a Danish company called Vestas) and are now majority- or fully-owned by major private corporations—primarily AC Energy (Ayala Group), which owns the Bangui and Pagudpud wind farms, and the Lopez Group's EDC, which owns the Burgos wind farm. These supply power to the Luzon grid, cover nearly half of Ilocos Norte’s electricity needs, and are major tourist destinations. A new project, the Buhawind Offshore Wind Farm, is a joint venture between Copenhagen Energy (Denmark) and PetroGreen Energy (a Southeast Asian MNC). It plans to install large floating turbines off the coasts of Bangui, Burgos, and Pagudpud, potentially becoming the largest of its kind in the country. Local fisherfolk have expressed strong opposition, citing threats to fishing access, damage to marine ecosystems, and a lack of direct community benefit—especially amid ongoing high electricity rates and frequent outages under private energy control.

    North Luzon Invitational Debates 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-07-19

  • This house would heavily subsidize organic food

    Infoslide

    Organic food refers to food produced through specific agricultural practices that avoid the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and prioritizes sustainable farming. It emphasizes natural substances and physical, mechanical, or biologically based farming methods.

    MID YEAR DEBATE INVITATIONALS 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-07-19

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of local Igorot communities to aggressively oppose hydropower projects in the Cordillera region

    Infoslide

    As part of the Philippines’ commitment to rely on renewable sources for 35% of electricity by 2030, 99 hydropower projects have been greenlit in the Cordillera region. The approved projects span all major rivers from Apayao all the way to Benguet with a total combined generating capacity of more than 4000 megawatts. Both local and national government units have backed the development of the projects with the goal of increasing energy accessibility and jobs in the region while local Igorot communities are divided due to threats of militarization and potential damage to land and water resources.

    North Luzon Invitational Debates 2025 · Octofinals · 2025-07-19

  • THPAW with the ecological cap

    Infoslide

    The ecological capacity of the Earth has been established and globally accepted. Once this population limit is reached, new births are only permitted when someone dies. Families must join a waitlist if they wish to have children and selections are made on neutral criteria.

    Glasgow Summer Cup 2025 · ESL Final · 2025-07-19

  • This house would break up conglomerates dually operating as a private distributing utility and a RE supplier under GEOP (e.g., MERALCO & MGen Renewable Energy, Inc., Aboitiz Group's Davao Light and Power Co. & AboitizPower)

    Infoslide

    In the Philippines, the Green Energy Option Program (GEOP) allows electric consumers with higher-than-most energy consumptions (i.e, at least 100 kilowatt monthly peak demand) to voluntary select a Renewable Energy (RE) supplier as their source of power. Some RE suppliers in the Philippines are owned or controlled by large conglomerates which also own or control for- profit private distribution utilities.

    16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · Round 4 · 2025-07-18