On 20th June 2022, the DSCC together with 30 civil society organisations called on the ISA to reverse restrictions on participation at the July and August Council and Assembly meetings, part 2 of the ISA’s 27th Session.
Read the letter in full here
Available in English
20th 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
Deep-Sea Mining
United Nations Ocean Conference
English
17th June 2022
SUBMISSION TO SPRFMO Bottom Fishing Intersessional Working Group Participant Questionnaire
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Deep-Sea Fishing, New Zealand, Policy, Science
SPRFMO
15th March 2022
The DSCC together with Greenpeace, Bloom and France Nature Environment have called on Barbara Pompili, Minister of the Ecological Transition to support calls for a moratorium on deep-sea mining at the upcoming meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD/SBSTTA/24).
Deep-Sea Mining, European Union, Policy
15th March 2022
Briefing Paper for the 9th Meeting of the Compliance and Technical Commission and the 10th Meeting of the Commission of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization
Online from 19 – 22, 24 – 28 January 2022
Deep-Sea Fishing, High Seas, New Zealand
South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation
English
23rd December 2021
DSCC Briefing 26th ISA December Council Meeting | December 2021
Earthworks Intervention on Agenda items 9 and 10: Annual report of the Secretary-General (ISBA/26/A/2, and ISBA/26/A/2/Add.1) and Report on the implementation of the strategic plan and high-level action plan (ISBA/26/A/8-ISBA/26/C/23 and ISBA/26/A/9)| December 14, 2021 (Assembly Day 2)
On Agenda item 9: Annual report of the Secretary-General (ISBA/26/A/2, and ISBA/26/A/2/Add.1)| December 14, 2021 (Assembly Day 2)
On Agenda item 8: Statement by the President of the Council on the Work of the Council | December 13, 2021 (Assembly Day 1)
Earthworks Intervention on Agenda item 13: Regional Environmental Management Plans (REMPs) | December 9, 2021
On Agenda item 13: Report of the Chair of the LTC (morning) | December 9, 2021
On Agenda item 13: Regional Environmental Management Plans (REMPs) | December 9, 2021
Earthworks Intervention Agenda item 14: Report of the Finance Committee | December 8, 2021
On Agenda item 14: Report of the Finance Committee | December 8, 2021
Earthworks Intervention on Agenda item 12: Draft Regulations for the exploitation of resources in the Area (Roadmap) | December 7, 2021
On Agenda item 12: Draft Regulations for the exploitation of resources in the Area (Roadmap) | December 7, 2021
On Agenda item 11: Report of the Secretary-General ISBA/26/A/8-ISBA/26/C/23 on the implementation of the decision of the Council in 2019 relating to the reports of the Chair of the Legal and Technical Commission | December 6, 2021
On Agenda item 8: Status of contracts for exploration and related matters (periodic reviews and relinquishments) | December 6, 2021
On Agenda item 11: Implementation of the decision of the Council in 2019 relating to the reports of the Chair of the Legal and Technical Commission (ISBA/26/C/3)
Deep-Sea Mining, ISA, Policy, Regulations
International Seabed Authority
English
2nd December 2021
The DSCC have written to the ISA Secretary General, the LTC and Council members. highlighting concerns surrounding the NORI environmental impact assessment, asking that:
(1) The EIS not progress and request that it be withdrawn for its complete lack of – indeed the absence of even an attempt to include – the critical environmental baseline
(2) to express our serious concerns with the procedural shortcomings of the public consultation undertaken.
Read the letter here
Deep-Sea Mining, ISA
English
12th November 2021
The DSCC have written to the ISA’s Secretary-General to express serious concern at the proposal to hold a physical meeting of the ISA council from 6-10 December 2021 and a meeting of the ISA Assembly from 13-15 December 2021.
The letter has been sent on behalf of the DSCC together with Conservation International, Greenpeace, Earthworks, WWF, Civil Society Forum of Tonga, Deep Sea Mining Campaign, Ecologistas en Accion, MiningWatch Canada, Montescola, Ocean Care, Pacific Network on Globalisation, Pacific Blue Line, Sustainable Ocean Alliance, Sciaena, Seas at Risk, The Oxygen Project and Te Ipukarea Society
Read the letter in full here.
29th October 2021
