Deep Sea News from the UN Ocean Conference

Post-Conference News

• UN conference ends with declaration on global ocean emergency – Brasil 247
• UN Ocean Conference creates a fair wind behind deep-sea mining moratorium campaign – Seas at Risk
• Alarm Over Oceans Heat Up Europe’s Summertime Politics – New Delhi Times
• UN negotiations call for faster steps to ensure ‘critical’ maritime health – News Dubai
• Reflections on the closing of the 2022 UN Ocean Conference, Lisbon, Portugal – IUCN/Coastal News Today
• Mining threatens our planet’s last carbon sink – Sustainable Ocean Alliance
• “Deep Sea Mining Can Trigger Tsunamis”: Why Ocean Dying Affects Us Directly – Watson
• Major Companies Are Pledging Against Deep-Sea Mining – Seven Seas Media
• Calls for a stop to deep-sea mining intensify around the Lisbon UN Ocean conference – Business and Human Rights Centre
• The tide is rising against deep sea mining – Global Voices
• Petition for a moratorium on deep-sea mining – Pong Pesca
• Deep-sea mining? It’s simply not well worth the danger. Momentum grows towards the controversial observe – Exclusive Global News
• President Macron calls for a stop to deep-sea mining – Business and Human Rights Centre
• UN Ocean Conference leaves indigenous peoples feeling excluded – Eco Business
• A year before deep-sea mining could begin, calls for a moratorium build – South Africa Today
• Deep-sea mining targeted by environmentalists at UN Ocean Conference – Folha de S Paulo

Day 5 – 1st July

• Outgunned island states vow to fight deep-sea mining – France 24
• As U.N. Ocean Conference ends, environmental groups press world leaders – Reuters
• Lemke: “World Ocean Conference sends wake-up call in view of the dramatic state of the oceans”– Foreign Affairs
• A step to ban deep-sea mining – Le Figaro
• UN ocean conference: Macron surprises with call for ban on deep sea mining– ENDS Europe
• Portugal: ‘We haven’t paid attention to the price to pay’ for deep sea mining – Lusa
• Marine conservationists after UN conference: “Time is running out” – Freie Press
• Respite for the threatened seabed? Sans Transition
• UN Ocean Conference Ends on Call for Action– Impakter
• States evade responsibility at the UN Ocean Conference – individual initiatives give hopeful impetus – Foreign Affairs
• New Zealand’s Silence On Deep Sea Mining Risks Deep Wounds To Pacific Relations Pacific Scoop
• Tuvalu attend UN Oceans conference despite diplomatic spat with China – Pina
• Deep-sea camera captures giant ‘yokozuna iwashi’ in Pacific
• Second UN Ocean Conference: Nations should look below the surface– OceanCare
• The time has come for Portugal’s defender the deep sea – Europe Cities
• Deep-sea mining- it’s not worth the risk– ZME Science

Day 4 – 30th June

• France’s Macron says deep-sea mining must not go ahead – Reuters
• A year before deep-sea mining could begin, calls for a moratorium build – Mongabay
• Moratorium on deep-sea mining needed right now- Scoop
• Growing opposition to deep-sea mining – Jamaica Gleaner
• Aboriginal Australian activist calls for end to deep-sea mining at UN meeting in Portugal – The Guardian
• France’s Macron says deep-sea mining must not go ahead– Street Insider
• Emmanuel Macron speaks out against the exploitation of the deep ocean – Time News
• Dawn Wright Set To Be First African American To Visit Earth’s Deepest Point – Forbes
• Nearly a quarter of Earth’s seafloor now mapped – BBC

Day 3 – 29th June

• Interview on deep sea mining: “Biodiversity loss will be irreversible” – Wilder
• We must reverse course – The report of the second day of the UN Conference on Oceans – United Nations Regional Information Center
• Fiji, Palau and Samoa call for a moratorium on deep-sea mining at UN conference – RNZ New Zealand
• Deep-sea mining raises fears at UN Ocean Conference – Valor Economico
• ‘Lots of talk, little action’: Hundreds protest outside U.N. Ocean Conference – Reuters
• Critics Question the Climate Benefits of Deep Seabed Mining– Ardina
• ‘Terrifying’: WWF Chief hits out at plans to mine the deep sea- Reuters
• Pacific island nations unite against deep-sea mining – Carbon News
• Fiji supports moratorium on deep-sea mining– FBC News
• Underwater Pharmacy: Meet the Scientists Raiding the Ocean’s Medicine Cabinet– Trendeepro
• Pacific nations form alliance to oppose deep-sea mining– Eco Business
• Pacific Small Island Developing States call for stronger partnerships to sustainably manage oceans – Pina
• Launch of the Alliance of Countries for a Deep-Sea Mining Moratorium from 2022 UN Ocean Conference– China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation
• Facing Stressed Marine Ecosystems, Small Island States Call for Broader Legal Rules, Stronger Partnerships to Sustainably Manage Oceans, as Lisbon Conference Continues- Namibia New Digest
• Parliamentarians and Pacific countries want to stop seabed mining – Lareleveetlapeste
• What are the high seas and why should we fight to protect them? – ZME Science
• Te Pati Maori advocate at global summit against deep sea mining – RNZ New Zealand
• Teanau Tuiono | MP and Greens spokesperson for Education and Pasifika peoples – Waatea News
• Pacific says ‘no’ to deep-sea mining – PNG report
• UN Ocean Conference: Experts call for ending policy blindspot to avert ‘ocean emergency’- Down To Earth
• ‘Giant genes’ shed light on how ‘alien’ crustacean has adapted to the deep sea– South China Morning Post
• Life in the abyss, a spectacular and fragile struggle for survival – France 24

Day 2 – 28th June

• EU moves one step closer to protecting deep-sea ecosystems from bottom fishing in its waters – European Commission
• New data shows orange roughly in deep trouble – DSCC
• Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: Save the sea beds – NZ Herald
• Oceans Conference articulates moratorium on offshore mineral exploration – O Globo
• ‘Terrifying’: WWF chief hits out at plans to mine the deep sea – Reuters
• “You boys are our role models”: Why the UN Ocean Conference is particularly important for young people– Watson
• Palau, Fiji for deep-sea mining moratorium– Tapei Times
• Pressure Mounts Against Deep Sea Mining As More Pacific Countries Take A Stand – Scoop
• Alliance launched against deep-sea mining – Pina
• NZ Not Making Waves At Oceans Conference – Scoop
• Moratorium on deep sea mining, Palau and Fiji against underwater mining – Rinnovabili
• World Leaders Call for Urgent Action to Halt The Emerging Deep-Sea Mining Industry- Scoop
• Deep-Sea Mining Rejected by Palau, Fiji, and Samoa – The Epoch Times
• Global Attention on Moratorium on Deep-Sea Mining– Ahmedabad Mirror
• United Nations Ocean Conference: Mobilization against deep-sea mining grows in Lisbon – Greenpeace

Day 1 – 27th June

• ‘Not worth the risk’: Palau, Fiji call for deep-sea mining moratorium – Reuters
• Palau, Fiji, and Samoa launch Alliance Against Deep Sea Mining – Greenpeace
• UN meet sees blitz of pledges to protect ailing oceans – France 24
• The French position on the protection of the seabed is opaque– Reporterre
• The International Seabed Authority and the SDGs: PR vs reality– Seas at Risk
• At the Lisbon conference, Antonio Guterres declares the oceans in a ‘state of emergency’ – RFI
• Underwater mining: scientists and NGOs warn about the impacts of a new gold rush – RFI