Ahead of this year’s ISA meetings, you can find the DSCC’s briefing in English here
8 March, 2023
20 December, 2022
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) challenges governments to protect the ocean from top to bottom in the wake of the new COP15 Biodiversity Framework, by calling for a stop to deep-sea mining and a ban on bottom trawling on global seamounts.
Available in English.
8 December, 2022
Recommendations on deep-sea mining for COP-15 to amend the draft Decision on Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity (December 2022)
- PDF (English)
27 September, 2022
The DSCC provided comments to the Ministry of Environment and Tourism of Namibia on the draft EIA Report “ESIA REPORT FOR THE PROPOSED SANDPIPER MARINE PHOSPHATE PROJECT WITHIN ML 170, OFFSHORE, NAMIBIA”
Read the letter in full here.
Available in English.
16 September, 2022
The DSCC sent a letter of concern to the International Seabed Authority (ISA) Secretary General, President of Council, and Chair of the Legal and Technical Commission (LTC) about the process by which the environmental impact statement submitted by Nauru Ocean Resources Incorporated for its upcoming collector test has apparently been approved by the Legal and Technical Commission.
Read the letter in full here.
Available in English.
24 August, 2022
The DSCC, together with other accredited International Seabed Authority (ISA) observers, wrote the ISA’s Acting President concerning the proceedings of the Assembly during the 27th Session, more specifically during the discussion of Agenda Item 19.
Read the letter in full here
Available in English
29 June, 2022
DSCC made a statement to the Aarhus Convention Working Group on Public Participation in International Forums, which resolved as follows:
“The Working Group calls on Parties to the Aarhus Convention to take action to improve public participation in the International Seabed Authority processes in accordance with art 3(7) of the Aarhus Convention.”
Read the full statement here.
22 June, 2022
Please find the DSCC’s written submissions to the United Nations Ocean Conference below.
Available in English
17 June, 2022
Read the DSCC’s briefing on why a moratorium on deep-sea mining is critical and how it can be achieved below.
Available in English
18 March, 2022