PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release 4th April 2022
Negotiations to develop the rules and regulations that would govern the destructive deep-sea mining industry have ended in Kingston, Jamaica. If approved and adopted, the regulations proposed by the International Seabed Authority (ISA) would give the green light to risky deep-sea mining as soon as July 2023, which would undermine the health of our ocean at a time when we rely on it most.
Negotiations of draft rules and regulations, that could regulate the looming deep-sea mining industry were it to go ahead, entered their 8th day today in Kingston Jamaica.
Today’s session opened with an address from the International Seabed Authority (ISA’s) Secretary General, followed by the Chair of the Authority’s Legal and Technical Commission (LTC), presenting a report which included the development of Regional Environmental Monitoring Plans (REMPs), contract extensions, applications for new exploratory licences and an update on would be miners’ Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).
MEDIA UPDATE
For release 28.3.22 – Kingston Jamaica
Negotiations will continue this week which could open the deep sea to a new frontier of destructive industrial extraction.
The meeting of the Council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Kingston will continue its rush to mine the deep, negotiating new regulations which, if approved and adopted, could give the green light to deep-sea mining as soon as 2023.
Continue reading THE RUSH TO STRIP MINE THE DEEP OCEAN CONTINUES – WEEK TWO AT UN MINING MEETING
As delegates met for the third day of deep-sea mining negotiations at the International Seabed Authority, the spotlight was on environmental protection and the impacts of deep-sea mining on the marine environment if the nascent industry were to go ahead.
You can find the full Interventions submitted by the DSCC below.
Open-Ended Working Group
Available in English
