By George Foundos
It has only been one day since the ACMUN has started and the delegates in the Economic and Social committees are doing pretty well. All the delegates agreed to start with the second topic about deforestation and illegal logging. The delegate of Greenpeace started first with a dynamic speech presenting the benefits of using renewable sources or gathering nuts fruits and vegetables which are the real wealth of the rain forests. These suggestions would replace the harmful consequences of deforestation according to Greenpeace and would give the same profit to the companies. Then after two short but interesting speeches given by the delegates of Australia and France, Nicaragua gave a speech which brought interest in the audience saying that there should be environmental soldiers protecting the tropical forests.
Many delegates adopted this idea, including those from France, Greenpeace, and the Russian Federation, although the latter had some doubts about the chances of the plan’s success. The delegate of Libya was next and toned that countries like theirs need forest products but believe that there are other things too that rain forests can provide them with. Then Japan continued repeating that we can create the same goods that come from trees through other resources. The debate continued with France giving another speech and the Russian Federation asking a clever question: “There are older laws regarding illegal deforestation. Do you think we should make new laws or make the older ones more severe?”
“I believe that we should reform the already existing laws making them more strict and severe,” Answered the delegation of France.
After fruitful debate the delegation of the Russian Federation stated deforestation can’t be avoided completely but can be slowly decreased.
Concluding, the first day for ECOSOC was prosperous with a warming atmosphere and with France, Nicaragua, Russian Federation and Greenpeace being the most energetic and I believe that the best is yet to come!
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