“Priority must be given to the protection of the international seabed until conclusive and comprehensive studies … are available,” she said. “We’re no longer in a ‘what if’ scenario, but ‘what now’?” said Margo Deiye, Nauru’s permanent representative to the International Seabed Authority.Ī growing number of countries and companies, including BMW and Volvo, support a moratorium on deep sea mining, warning that extracting precious metals from the deep sea that are used in electric car batteries and other green technology could cause environmental damage.īrazil’s representative to the International Seabed Authority, Elza Moreira Marcelino de Castro, said the country supports a precautionary pause for at least a decade. Nauru noted that its “good-faith decision” does not mean officials are withdrawing their plan to pursue deep sea mining.
The government of the tiny Pacific island said Friday that it wants to diversify its “limited economic base,” but promised it would not sponsor an application during the U.N. The agency has not issued any provisional licenses, nor has it received any applications, although the government of Nauru is expected to apply soon for a license via the Canadian-based Metals Co. agency based in Jamaica that failed to approve a set of rules and regulations to govern deep sea mining by a July 9 deadline. The call came during a two-week conference held by the International Seabed Authority, a regulatory U.N. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Brazil on Friday urged a 10-year precautionary pause on deep sea mining in international waters just days after companies and countries were allowed to start applying for provisional licenses.
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