The #DeepSeaMining story goes into the next round:
"The ISA’s incumbent secretary-general, Michael Lodge, a British lawyer who was first elected in 2016, is generally seen as having made it his mission to get extraction started as soon as possible. During Lodge’s scandal-marred tenure, he made public statements affirming the inevitability of commercial mining and even appeared in a promotional video for The Metals Company. In this month’s election held in Kingston, he lost his bid for a third term to Leticia Carvalho, a Brazilian oceanographer, by 79 votes to 34. Her four-year term as secretary-general will begin in 2025."
#MixedNews
ISA will probably continue to promote deep sea mining, although hopefully less aggressive:
"Carvalho, the new secretary-general, does not support a moratorium, but many environmentalists cheered her expertise in ocean science and her background as a woman from the Global South."
More info, also why deep sea mining is a *very* bad idea:
https://grist.org/oceans/leticia-carvalho-international-seabed-authority-election/
#GoodNews #Brazil #TheMetalsCompany
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