Canada Calls For Moratorium on Deep Seabed Mining to Protect Global Ocean
Canada has called for a moratorium on commercial seabed mining, saying that it’s critical that the international community recognize its collective responsibility to safeguard the shared global ocean for future generations.
The statement was issued by Canadian Ministers Melanie Joly, Foreign Affairs; Jonathan Wilkinson, Natural Resources; and Joyce Murray, Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard. It came in early July as meetings were beginning in Jamaica for Part II of the 28th International Seabed Authority (ISA) session.
“Canada will continue to uphold the principles, rights, duties and obligations in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and negotiate in good faith rules, regulations and procedures, which ensure the prevention of damage from seab...