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RESOLUTION - Meteorological Cooperation

Posted on Mar 8 2006, 12:33 PM

Meteorological Cooperation

A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.

Category: Free Trade

Strength: Mild

Proposed by: St Edmund

Description: Argument: The United Nations,

NOTING that accurate forecasting of the weather and of changes in the climate can be very useful for the agriculture, fishing, tourism and transport industries, as well as for nations’ populations in general;

NOTING that weather patterns are unlikely to fit neatly within national borders, especially when types of weather with potentially serious effects are involved, and that climate changes can have world-wide effects;

NOTING that the more information is available the more accurately weather-forecasting models can be designed and used;

REALISING that nations may be reluctant to share information about their current and predicted weather when they are at war, because that information might be of use to their enemies;

ESTABLISHES the ‘International Meteorological Organisation’ [or ‘IMO’] to collect information about weather, climate changes, and methods for forecasting these; to help develop better forecasting methods; and to disseminate this information to any cooperating UN member-nations whose governments request it;

STRONGLY URGES the governments of UN member-nations to cooperate with the IMO by supplying it with all of the relevant information that they possess;

STRONGLY URGES any governments of UN member-nations who choose to restrict the spread of relevant information during wartime to cooperate with the IMO by saving that information so that it can be sent to the IMO for research purposes after those hostilities have ended;

INSTRUCTS the IMO to cooperate with any other UN agencies that might also have an interest in the subject, such as [for example] the Natural Disaster Assessment Organisation or the Tsunami Emergency Warning Centre, within any limits set by the resolutions which created those agencies;

OFFERS the services of the IMO to any nations that are not members of the UN, if their governments are willing to pay a negotiated contribution towards its expenses and to send it all relevant information that they possess, except for any such nations that are at war with any UN member-nations;

REQUIRES that any information that the IMO has supplied to national governments shall only be passed to any subsequent users free of charge, rather than sold either by those governments or by anybody else.

Votes For: 1,775

Votes Against: 751

[Delegate Votes]

Voting Ends: Sun Mar 12 2006

Legalese

Back in Black

Posts: 431

Posted on Mar 8 2006, 07:09 PM

I don't see any real harm in this. APPROVE

Lamoni

Democratic Maniac

Posts: 1952

Posted on Mar 10 2006, 07:38 PM

Ooh the weather geeks must be out in force. I'll vote yes only because Meh is all the way down the bottom of the voting list.

Starblaydia

Also available in purple

Posts: 1877

Posted on Mar 11 2006, 03:25 AM

Gotta love the influx of conversation on this one.

Though to be fair, I've little to say here. Seems pretty harmless, no risk of state secrets being passed around, save for the "30% chance of doom" forecast over AO at the moment.

Ms. Cappaverde mildy recommends SUPPORTING this resolution.

This post has been edited by Legalese on Mar 11 2006, 03:26 AM