EEEEEPPPPPPAAAAAAA!!!
Posted on 11/30/2008 9:10:19 AM PST by ConservativeMind
...The first role of the new body would be to enforce international agreements on cutting greenhouse gas emissions set to be agreed next year.
But the court would also fine countries or companies that fail to protect endangered species or degrade the natural environment and enforce the "right to a healthy environment"...
...Mr Hockman said an international court will be needed to enforce and regulate any agreement.
"The time is now ripe to set this up and get it going," he said. "Its remit will be overall climate change and the need for better regulation of carbon emissions but at the same time the implementation and enforcement of international environmental agreements and instruments..."
...The court would include a convention on the right to a healthy environment and provide a higher body for individuals or non-governmental organisations to protest against an environmental injustice.
Mr Hockman said the court may be able to fine businesses or states but its main role will be in making "declaratory rulings" that influence and embarrass countries into upholding the law.
He said: "Of course regulations and sanctions alone cannot deliver a global solution to problems of climate change, but without such components the incentive for individual countries to address those problems – and to achieve solutions that are politically acceptable within their own jurisdictions – will be much reduced."
The court would be led by retired judges, climate change experts and public figures...
...an international court on the environment would influence public opinion which in turn would force Governments to take the environment seriously. He said: "If there are bodies around that can give definitive legal rulings that are accepted as fair and reasonable that has its own impact on public opinion..."
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Unforgivable.
Translation: Bleed America dry.
A tax collected by who ? And the funds held by who ? And used by who to do exactly what? What a crock of sh*t. Just another way to extort money from the USA. Obama will go along with this . I’ve been saying for a long time now we need an organization to fight Obama , an aggressive organization of patriots that fights him every time he opens his mouth.
Lawyers are the most Abrupt form of Terrorism Mental Disorder X ten ....
What are you-- some kind of rightwing radical?
Great idea, but you can't do it under the U.N. Too many Muslim members. You need to do that under a League of Democracies.
Our EPA is partnered with the UN.
http://iaspub.epa.gov/trs/trs_proc_qry.navigate_term?p_term_id=29682&p_term_cd=TERMDIS
EPA.gov
Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, is a comprehensive programme of action to be achieved by governments, development agencies, United Nations organizations and independent sector groups in every area where human activity affects the environment. Agenda 21 was adopted by the United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development, the Earth Summit. Agenda 21 is the response to the UN General Assembly’s call, in December 1989, for a global meeting to devise strategies to halt and reverse the effects of environment degradation “in the context of increased national and international efforts to promote sustainable and environmentally sound development in all countries”
AND our EPA has been granted Executive Powers.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cite:+42USC7603
Environmental Emergency Powers:
Excerpt:
the Administrator, upon receipt of evidence that a pollution source or combination of sources (including moving sources) is presenting an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health or welfare, or the environment, may bring suit on behalf of the United States in the appropriate United States district court to immediately restrain any person causing or contributing to the alleged pollution to stop the emission of air pollutants causing or contributing to such pollution or to take such other action as may be necessary.
/excerpt
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Yea, right. Like China is going to listen to an international court. What a bunch of maroons.
In my crystal ball I see fat retainers, contingency fees, sinecures in International courts for lawyers skilled in litigating environmental issues. Plus every reasonably large international business will have to retain a few more environmental lawyers.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
this new move reminds me of Miracle on 3th St where St. Nick was hauled into court.
“Sovereignty” is supreme, absolute, uncontrollable primary power of a state relative to others. It is the indepedent standing of a nation. In the United States of America, the fountain of sovereignty resides with the People who dispense such portions of power as thought necessary for the public welfare.
The idea of this international court threatens our national sovereignty and the very roots of legitimate sovereignty coming from our People and not some “foreign” power(s).
There is but it's illegal. Not necessarily immoral though.
Typical appeal to authority. It is a common fallacy learned in Eng Lit 301 and misapplied to everything by Liberals.
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