3,000 to 6,000 meters below the water surface: At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, metallic raw materials have accumulated at this depth over millions of years – manganese and cobalt, for example. Some companies plan to engage in deep-sea mining and mining of metallic raw materials on the seabed, with serious consequences for vulnerable marine ecosystems and the Pacific island population. There is already resistance to the plans. In this episode, we talk to Emma Jacoby, who has spoken to civil society actors fighting deep-sea mining in Tonga, the Cook Islands and New Zealand. How are the local people doing? Why is a ban on deep-sea mining essential? And what can we do to make their voices heard in Germany and the Pacific?
Click here for the publication “Not needed, not desired, not allowed! Resistance to deep-sea mining in the Pacific and Germany”: https://power-shift.de/widerstand-gegen-tiefseebergbau-im-pazifik-und-in-deutschland/
You can listen to podcast episode 15 ‘Deep-sea mining leaves deep scars’ here: https://power-shift.de/media/podcast-spezial-nr-24-aufbruch-in-der-handels-rohstoff-verkehrspolitik-powershift-forderungen-an-die-politik/
Here you can find up-to-date information on the civil society network “AG Tiefseebergbau”: https://www.stoptiefseebergbau.de/
Click here for the position paper of the AG Tiefseebergbau from 2018: https://www.forumue.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Positionspapier-Tiefseebergbau-25042018.pdf
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