Google, BMW, Volvo, and Samsung SDI sign up to WWF call for temporary ban on deep-sea mining

Date: March 31, 2021

Source: Reuters

Google, BMW, Volvo and Samsung SDI are the first global companies to have signed up to a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) call for a moratorium on deep-sea mining, the WWF said on Wednesday.

In backing the call, the companies commit not to source any minerals from the seabed, to exclude such minerals from their supply chains, and not to finance deep seabed mining activities, the WWF said in a statement.

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