Source: Environmental Justice Foundation
Author: EJF staff
Despite widespread opposition from around the globe, we may be on track to see the first deep sea mining within a year. Governments must stand up for the ocean and impose a moratorium.
Authours: by Raphaël Deberdt, Philippe Le Billon
The electrification of our livelihoods, in particular the development of electric vehicles, will require massive amounts of minerals including nickel, cobalt and manganese, which are all found in huge quantities on the seafloor. Deep-seabed mining (DSM) could not only help scale up the supply of minerals needed for phasing out of fossil fuels but also prevent some of the destructive fallout of future land-based mining.
From the late 1970s to the early 80s Jamaica was front and centre in advocating the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to manage the exploitation of the untold mineral riches in the world’s high seas and oceans.
Delegates of the International Seabed Authority are currently meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, to negotiate a set of rules that would pave the way for a controversial activity: mining the seabed for coveted minerals like manganese, nickel, copper, cobalt and zinc. But scientists and conservationists say there are considerable transparency issues at the meetings that are restricting access to key information and hampering interactions between member states and civil society.
Suite à la déclaration du président de la République souhaitant « mettre en place un cadre légal pour arrêter l’exploitation minière des grands fonds marins en haute mer », lors de la deuxième édition de la Conférence des Nations Unies sur l’océan du 27 juin au 1er juillet 2022 à Lisbonne, nous avons salué sa prise de position et appelé la France à s’engager véritablement dans ce sens dans le cadre des travaux de l’Autorité internationale des fonds marins (AIFM) réunie le 18 juillet 2022 à Kingston (Jamaïque).
Author: Elizabeth Claire Alberts
Delegates of the International Seabed Authority are currently meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, to negotiate a set of rules that would pave the way for a controversial activity: mining the seabed for coveted minerals like manganese, nickel, copper, cobalt and zinc. But scientists and conservationists say there are considerable transparency issues at the meetings that are restricting access to key information and hampering interactions between member states and civil society.
Author: Laura Cole
As members of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) council meet in Jamaica, EU member states are voicing more concern about the prospect of deep sea minerals exploitation.
Author: Jordan Wolman and Debra Kahn
MINING THE GAP — Critical minerals are key to a lot of sustainability goals: solar panels, wind turbines and batteries, for grid storage and vehicles. But the United States is passing up a prime opportunity to get them.
Author: by NewsWire
Negotiations have begun to develop a mining code that, if adopted, could see the largest extractive operation in human history begin in the deep sea.
The government is allegedly looking at plans to evaluate potential underwater reserves of key materials for EV batteries.
