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  • This house believes that environmental activists should focus on the culpability of large corporations for environmental degradation, rather than emphasize the role of personal responsibility (e.g. using less water, recycling household waste)

    Northern Luzon Intervarsity 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-05-31

  • This house prefers the depletion world to the conservation world

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    There are two worlds. In the “depletion” world, current generations have a higher quality of life, but unchecked use of natural resources eventually leads to depletion, significantly degrading the welfare of future generations. In the “conservation” world, current generations manage their resource usage for the sake of future generations, in exchange for a lower quality of life.

    Taiwan WSDC 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-05-31

  • This house believes that developed countries should pursue a policy of degrowth

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    Degrowth involves a planned decrease in the size of economic production and consumption occurring within a given economy (often measured via GDP). It could involve prioritizing less emissions-intensive industries, imposing heavy taxes or limits on emissions, implementing shorter workweeks, and encouraging voluntary reductions in consumer spending.

    Hanoi Debate Tournament 2025 - English Division · Junior Semifinals · 2025-05-31

  • This House would impose a worldwide energy austerity measure.

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    A worldwide energy austerity measures refers to coordinated efforts to reduce energy consumption worldwide, for example by instituting mandatory speed limits, enforcing car-free weekends, requiring work-from-home arrangements, incentivizing public transport use, reducing non-essential lighting at night, implementing rolling power outages, rationing private vehicle use, and setting mandatory indoor temperature limits.A worldwide energy austerity measures refers to coordinated efforts to reduce energy consumption worldwide, for example by instituting mandatory speed limits, enforcing car-free weekends, requiring work-from-home arrangements, incentivizing public transport use, reducing non-essential lighting at night, implementing rolling power outages, rationing private vehicle use, and setting mandatory indoor temperature limits.

    2025 Spring NHSDLC BP Open · Round 4 · 2025-05-30

  • This house, as the environmental movement, would adopt ecocentrism over anthropocentrism

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    Ecocentrism refers to the narrative that the earth must be taken care of regardless of its perceived value. Anthropocentrism refers to the narrative that the earth must be taken care of for future generations to come

    Vistaar NITD-PD 24 · Round 2 · 2025-05-29

  • This house regrets the active opposition against nuclear energy and the subsequent denuclearization of energy

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    In the 20th century, nuclear energy was a major source of clean power. However, many countries suddenly heavily denuclearized due to fears that rose from nuclear weapons, major nuclear power plants disasters (Chernobyl 1986, etc.) and concerns with nuclear waste as well as protests from the green movement.

    Xavier Cup 11 · Round 5 · 2025-05-25

  • This house believes that it is in the interests of the Arctic Council to overturn its refusal to cooperate with Russia.

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    “The Arctic Council is an intergovernmental forum that was formed to enhance cooperation, coordination and interaction among Arctic States (states that border the Arctic Circle) with the active involvment of Arctic IPs and other Actic inhabitants on common Arctic matters. These matters include environmental policies, scienific research, and most recently security. The Arctic States are Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the US, and Russia. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the other 7 Arctic states refused to collaborate with Russia. Since then, both parties have conducted their own military exercises. Russia recently conducted missile tests in the Arctic.

    Xavier Cup 11 · Semifinals · 2025-05-25

  • This house supports the use of religion in promoting climate sustainability

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    The heads of religious organizations such as the Dalai Lama and the Indonesian Ulema Council have heavily pushed for the protection of the environment and the implementation of environmental sustainability. This is based on the common core tenets of religions, that promulgate the idea of "stewardship" over Earth.

    Xavier Cup 11 · Round 5 · 2025-05-25

  • (C) In developed countries, This house would compel Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to comply with sustainability reporting standards

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    (C) Sustainability reporting is an emerging trend in financial accounting that aims to provide relevant information on Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) activities, advocacies, and impacts of private businesses. Sustainability reporting is currently limited to disclosure requirements and is mostly required for publicly-listed companies.

    Taylor's Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-05-25

  • This house prefers a world where the artistic norm for theatre is one of travelling rather than stationing

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    For the purposes of this debate, "Travelling" refers to constantly moving a given piece to different venues and locations. By contrast, "Stationing" refers to depicting pieces in a given physical installation, often for extended periods of time.

    Kings College London Pre- EUDC 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-05-24

  • M3: This House supports Debt for Climate swap programs

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    M3: Debt for Nature/Climate swaps involve reducing debt in exchange for policy commitments or spending by debtor countries. Multilateral development banks and multilateral organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have been advocating this instrument as a debt-relief measure.

    DTU Summers Pre-UADC 2025 · Open Grand Final · 2025-05-17