Joint eNGO Briefing Paper for the 11th Meeting of the Commission of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation from 13-17 February 2023
Deep-Sea Fishing, High Seas, New Zealand
South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation
English
14th January 2023
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.
Deep-Sea Fishing, Deep-Sea Mining, Policy
COP15
English
20th December 2022
Recommendations on deep-sea mining for COP-15 to amend the draft Decision on Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity (December 2022)
Deep-Sea Mining, Policy, Science
CBD, CBD COP15
English
8th December 2022
The DSCC released a briefing paper in advance of the upcoming ISA meeting in Kingston, Jamaica (31 October – 11 November).
Read the briefing in full here.
Available in English.
16th October 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.
Deep-Sea Mining
English
27th September 2022
As NAFO Contracting Parties meet for the first in person Annual Meeting since 2019, it is both important to reflect upon progress that has been made and where NAFO can continue to ensure that it fully upholds its modernized Convention, meets obligations to protect biodiversity in areas under its jurisdiction and advances best practices in fisheries management.
Read the DSCC’s NAFO Checklist for Success here.
Deep-Sea Fishing, Policy
19th 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.
Deep-Sea Mining, ISA
English
16th September 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
Deep-Sea Mining, ISA
International Seabed Authority
English
24th August 2022
DSCC made a statement to the Aarhus Convention Working Group on Public Participation in International Forums, which resolved as follows:
Deep-Sea Mining, ISA
Aarhus Working Group
English
29th June 2022
Please find the DSCC’s written submissions to the United Nations Ocean Conference below.
Available in English
Deep-Sea Fishing, Deep-Sea Mining
United Nations Ocean Conference
English
22nd June 2022
