UN Ocean Conference wrapped up Friday with world leaders taking major steps toward marine protection and vowing a showdown when nations meet to negotiate rules for deep-sea mining next month.
Nations look to sign deep sea mining rules by 2025
The member nations of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) agreed on a two-year roadmap for the adoption of deep sea mining regulations, in spite of exhortations by conservationists for a moratorium on extraction. The ISA has spent the last decade trying to work out a mining code for the possible...
