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  • This House Believes That international financial institutions should cancel all outstanding debts from LMICs over fossil fuel projects.

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    For several decades, international financial institutions have lent hundreds of billions of dollars to low and middle income countries (LMICs) to support fossil fuel energy projects. A significant portion of these debts remain outstanding and are currently being repaid.

    USC Mini 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-08

  • This house believes that the US should curb the rapid growth of data centers

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    Data centers are crucial physical infrastructures which stores large amounts of digital information that fuel emerging technologies such as AI and the Internet of Things. Currently, there are over 5000 data centers across the United States which are primarily developed for Big Tech companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon. While data centers have brought billions of dollars in investments and created thousands of jobs, they are extremely energy-intensive and use immense amounts of local resources especially water.

    3rd Visayas Novice Debate Cup · Round 3 · 2025-10-25

  • This house believes that governments should substantially reduce regulatory barriers (e.g. community consultation, environmental impact statements) that apply to mines for resources critical to developing green energy (e.g. lithium, copper, rare earth minerals)

    India ABP Fundraiser 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-08-30

  • This House believes that developing nations should adopt legislation similar to Canada’s "Building Canada Act".

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    The Building Canada Act (as part of Bill C-5: The One Canadian Economy Act), became law on June 26, 2025. It allows the federal government to designate and expedite “nation-building” projects like pipelines, ports, and highways. As well as, streamlines approvals by sidestepping existing laws such as the Environmental Protection Act and the Impact Assessment Act.

    Friday Night Debates 2025: An African Debate Super League · First Leg Round Robbin 2 · 2025-08-22

  • 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 regrets EPIRA

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    The Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA law) restructured the Philippine power sector through privatization and deregulation, promoted by international institutions like the Asian Development Bank as part of post- Asian Financial Crisis reforms. It dissolved the state monopoly (NPC/NAPOCOR), created competitive generation markets, and established the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM). While attracting $23B in private investments (2001-2019) and increasing generation capacity by 80%, critics argue it failed to deliver promised affordability, residential rates remain among Asia's highest.

    Bicol Debate Union Rookies Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Magayon Cup Finals · 2025-08-02

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

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    "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

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

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    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

  • This House believes that the EU and US should institute heavy sanctions on Rosatom

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    Rosatom is the Russian state nuclear energy company. Rosatom possesses about 44% of the world's uranium enrichment capacities, and exports enriched uranium to countries all over the world alongside new-build nuclear reactors and reactor components. Last year the European Union imported a quarter of the enriched uranium it needed from Russia. Rosatom is largely unsanctioned.

    Ottawa Open 2025 · Semifinals · 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)

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    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

  • This house, as Petros, supports a joint-council to discuss Oil & Gas rights between oil-making states of Malaysia with Oil & Gas companies (Petronas, Shell, Petros, etc.)

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    In Malaysia, oil and gas rights are mainly controlled by the federal government through Petronas, which holds exclusive ownership under the Petroleum Development Act 1974. Oil-producing states like Sarawak and Sabah have challenged this arrangement, citing the Malaysia Agreement 1963 which they argue grants them more control over their natural resources. In response, Sarawak established its own state oil company, Petros, leading to ongoing tensions over revenue sharing, licensing, and jurisdiction. A joint-council would be a formal platform where oil-producing states and major oil companies (such as Petronas, Shell, and Petros) can negotiate rights, resolve disputes, and collaboratively manage resources to ensure fairer outcomes and better cooperation between federal and state interests.

    Curtin Interschool Debate Competition 2025 · Finals-Senior · 2025-07-07