Several countries united with campaign groups on Monday to call for caution in regulating the divisive practice of deep-sea ...

After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in ...

As the ISA begins two weeks of talks in Jamaica, global stakeholders are divided on how to regulate deep-sea mining while balancing environmental and economic interests ...

Members of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) are meeting in Kingston to thrash out the first mining code on deep-sea extraction that has faced accusations of imperiling marine ecosystems.

The mining code under consideration stipulates that each company must pay royalties to the ISA based on the value of the metals. But what percentage should they pay? A working group has proposed ...

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head ...

Tokyo (AFP) – Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head of the body drafting regulations for the practice told ...

The world paid little attention when the ISA, created in 1994, quietly began negotiating the mining code. But the effort has taken on new urgency. Since July 2023, due to a legal clause invoked by ...

An oceanographer by training, Carvalho can only guide member states as they decide whether and how to draft a code. The ISA's Council is deeply divided, with some member states keen to see mining ...

The ISA’s Council, which for now only grants exploration contracts, has been drawing up commercial exploitation rules for more than a decade. And they aim to adopt a mining code this year to ...