Proposal: Global Framework for Accelerated Decarbonisation a

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"title": "Act for a Global Framework for Accelerated Decarbonisation and Climate Resilience",
"description": "# Preamble\n\nWHEREAS, the scientific evidence unequivocally demonstrates that climate change is a profound threat to humanity and planetary ecosystems, necessitating urgent and ambitious global action;\n\nWHEREAS, the objectives articulated in the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C, demand accelerated implementation;\n\nWHEREAS, the imperative to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions globally by mid-century, alongside enhancing adaptive capacity and strengthening resilience to climate impacts, requires a comprehensive and equitable global framework;\n\nWHEREAS, all nations share a common responsibility to address climate change, acknowledging their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in light of national circumstances;\n\nWHEREAS, fostering international cooperation, facilitating technology transfer, building capacity, and mobilising adequate financial resources are indispensable for effective global climate action;\n\nNOW, THEREFORE, the World Parliament hereby enacts the following Global Framework for Accelerated Decarbonisation and Climate Resilience:\n\n# Chapter I: General Provisions\n\n## Article 1: Objectives\n\nThis Framework establishes a comprehensive global mechanism to:\n\n1. Accelerate Decarbonisation: Drive rapid and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions to achieve net-zero emissions globally by 2050, in line with the 1.5°C temperature goal.\n2. Enhance Climate Resilience: Strengthen adaptive capacity, reduce vulnerability, and enhance resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change across all nations.\n3. Foster International Cooperation: Promote equitable collaboration, technology transfer, capacity building, and financial support to facilitate ambitious climate action globally.\n\n## Article 2: Guiding Principles\n\nThis Framework shall be guided by the following principles:\n\n1. Equity and Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities: Acknowledging varying national circumstances, historical contributions, and development stages.\n2. Scientific Basis: Actions shall be informed by the best available scientific knowledge, including assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).\n3. Precautionary Principle: Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.\n4. Intergenerational Equity: Ensuring that the needs of the present are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.\n5. Just Transition: Ensuring that the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy is inclusive, creates decent work opportunities, and leaves no one behind.\n\n# Chapter II: Accelerated Decarbonisation\n\n## Article 3: National Decarbonisation Strategies (NDS)\n\n1. Each Member State shall develop, communicate, and regularly update a comprehensive, long-term National Decarbonisation Strategy (NDS) outlining its pathway to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or earlier, consistent with global efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.\n2. The NDS shall include:\n Quantified national emission reduction targets, including interim milestones.\n Sector-specific decarbonisation plans for energy, transport, industry, agriculture, and waste.\n Strategies for phasing out fossil fuel subsidies and investment in new fossil fuel infrastructure.\n Measures for promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency, and sustainable consumption and production patterns.\n * Plans for enhancing carbon sinks through sustainable land use, forestry,