{"id":2016,"date":"2018-04-23T08:58:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T06:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de?p=2016"},"modified":"2018-05-17T11:08:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T09:08:47","slug":"a-brief-overview-on-the-global-industry-of-seabed-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/?p=2016&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"A brief Overview on the Global Industry of Seabed Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Harvard Environmental Law Review details deep sea mining\u2019s threats to climate, biodiversity, and indigenous peoples; calls for precautionary new legal standards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Harvard Environmental Law Review published an article entitled, \u201c<em>Broadening Common Heritage: Addressing Gaps in the Deep Sea Mining Regulatory Regime.<\/em>\u201d The article provides a new perspective on the incipient global industry of seabed mining, heralded as the next extractive frontier despite growing concerns and opposition from civil society, scientific experts, and indigenous groups worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The article provides a brief overview of the so-called \u2018gold-rush\u2019 for seabed minerals, in which countries and companies have scrambled to buy up licenses for seabed exploration covering millions of square kilometers of ocean, before environmental and regulatory standards have even been drafted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPacific Islanders have already suffered negative consequences as a result of mere exploratory mining in the region,\u201d says author Julian Aguon, attorney and founder of Blue Ocean Law\u2014a law firm that works throughout the Pacific region to defend and advance the rights of colonized and indigenous peoples. \u201cOur work has documented impacts to fisheries and traditional customs in coastal communities in Papua New Guinea, Tonga and elsewhere, and the disconcerting absence of true and meaningful consultation with affected groups.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Harvard-Environmental-Law-Review-details-deep-sea-mining\u2019s-threats-to-climate-biodiversity-and-indigenous-peoples-calls-for-precautionary-new-legal-standards.pdf\">Download article <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Environmental Law Review details deep sea mining\u2019s threats to climate, biodiversity, and indigenous peoples; calls for precautionary new legal standards The\u00a0Harvard Environmental Law Review published an article entitled, \u201cBroadening Common Heritage: Addressing Gaps in the Deep Sea Mining Regulatory Regime.\u201d The article provides a new perspective on the incipient global industry of seabed mining, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}