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Tiefseebergbau

Seabed Authority: What the negotiations on deep sea mining revealed

The various bodies of the International Seabed Authority have met in Jamaica. The election of the new Secretary General, Leticia Carvalho, fuels the hopes of several states and NGOs that the authority will further delay the commercial extraction of raw materials from the seabed.

Von Leonie Düngefeld

Norway: Green light for deep-sea mining

Despite environmentalists' objections, Norway becomes the first country to engage in commercial deep-sea mining. The aim is to extract minerals such as lithium, scandium and cobalt.

Von Lukas Knigge