In April 2021, a representative of Greenpeace International holds a sign in front of the Maersk Launcher, a vessel rented by DeepGreen, one of the businesses leading the effort to mine the little-known deep sea habitat.
But as the ISA Council, the organization’s policymaking body, concluded its first week of meetings on 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.
Source: bloomberg.com