A little-known organisation is meeting this week in a conference centre in Jamaica. The rules the International Seabed Authority (ISA) are drafting could have immense impact. This article is written by Claudio Bozzi, Deakin University. That’s because this United Nations body has the power to permit – or deny – mining on the deep seabed, outside any…
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