Model United Nations Speach - Mexicos stance on the Kyoto protocol
At this very moment pollution is affecting the worlds climate and Mexico is suffering natural disasters associated with these changes, so as you would expect Mexico supports the Protocol.
The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement involving 160 countries that have accepted they will have a cap of greenhouse gas emissions.
Mexico being a Still Developing country relies mainly on factories economical gain. Which naturally produce a lot of pollution. So the protocol would seem to financial oppose Mexico. Yet through the conditions of the protocol Mexico will not be at any disadvantage.
We Mexico feel that if a country is under direct jeopardy of finical loss due to the protocol it should be able to opt out of the provisions.
With the Kyoto protocol there are rules and provision that are enforced.
Some main rules are:
-There is a limit of greenhouse gas that a country's factories are allowed to admit per year.
The way the cap is worked out is, the country's yearly emissions are measured and then with the allowance of undeveloped countries a limit of carbon dioxide emissions is set. Then the country has to reduce the amount of emissions by a percentage, per year to reach a final goal in 2010.
And if a country does not use all of its emissions it can sell it to another country. Which is selling at an extremely high price. It is predicted that in the year 2010 the prices of carbon could reach $348 per metric ton. At this price Mexico could earn 1.2 billion dollars per year.
With the conditions of the agreement no still developing country should be at risk, and Developed countries have ample Resources, so there would be no risk of finical difficulties through the protocol. But developed countries may have a loss where...
More United Nations
essays:
Should the United Nations be called on to legislate Transnational Corporations?
... inequality. For this group, globalization is generally understood as putting developing nations at adisadvantage as they nd themselves unable to protect ... for TNCs. Foreign investment isenticing and to attract it, many countries have devised policies designed to provide multi-nationals with scal ...
The United Nations: Why it is suffering and how it can be improved.
... countries to exhibit their strength. In recent years the United Nations has announced plans to begin private sector partnerships through the United Nations Development ...
The Restructuring of the United Nations
... being at the top. Also, with the rise of civil war in developing countries the United Nations should be on the forefront attempting to protect ... little in the way of reform of UN bureaucracy, Annan continued to carry out reforms under his own authority. He established an ethics office, responsible for ...
United Nations: Aged organization facing new problems
... unobstructed by bureaucracy flowing down from the center of operations. Countries that decide to send their troops on peacekeeping missions should not have to suffer with casualties because of appeasement policies and indecisiveness coming from ...
League of Nations and United Nations.
... Assets/3140.php), its main reasons for the failure are: *Absence of important countries especially USA *Inaction of the League (eg. Abyssinian Crisis) because of the ... of Nations was formed, there was optimism, but years later, war broke out and it failed. There was also optimism when the UN was set ...
United Nations Essay
... the independence of the trusteeship lands through education and economic development. International Court of Justice This the worlds court located ... peacekeeping missions involve hostility; some may engage in assisting the countries that are less unfortunate and attempting to create an equal ...
A Model UN paper about the World Bank tied to the United Nations and Spain. Very good essay but could include more sitings.
... eradicating poverty and developing the economy. Composed of five closely associated groups, the IBRD, the IDA, the IFC, the MIGA, and the ICSID, the World Bank has made much progress, aiding countries during times of humanitarian emergencies, natural disasters, reconstruction, building ...
An assesment of the United Nations and why it has failed in its duties.
... (for example, Congo, Nicosia, Korea), the member nations have largely gone about doing as they see fit. Now, virtually all countries with but a few exceptions (North Korea) are members of the UN's General Assembly. This is an utterly powerless ...