As world leaders gather at the United Nations climate summit in Egypt this week, another international meeting is underway in Jamaica to decide the fate of the planet¡¯s oceans.
The U.N.-affiliated International Seabed Authority is convening in the country¡¯s capital, Kingston, to fast track regulations that could allow the mining of fragile and biodiverse deep sea ecosystems for valuable metals as soon as 2024.
But as the ISA Council, the organization¡¯s policymaking body, concluded its first week of meetings Friday, a growing number of countries were calling for a halt to the rush to enact mining regulations by July 2023, a deadline established last year.
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