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Mining the seabed for clean-tech minerals could destroy ecosystems. Will it get the green light?

  • Written by: Claudio Bozzi, Lecturer in Law, Deakin University
Mining the seabed for clean-tech minerals could destroy ecosystems. Will it get the green light?Crab on polymetallic nodulesNOAA Ocean Exploration

A little-known organisation is meeting this week in a conference centre in Jamaica. The rules the International Seabed Authority (ISA) are drafting could have immense impact.

That’s because this United Nations body has the power to permit – or deny – mining on the deep...

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