![]() ![]() ![]() “Under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, the ISA holds a lot of power to make decisions for all of humankind about what happens in the area of the ocean that's supposed to belong to all of us,” Addie Haughey, the legislative director for Lands, Wildlife and Oceans at Earthjustice, told Protocol.But the little-known body, headquartered in Jamaica, will decide the fate of the deep sea. It doesn’t have the cache of other United Nations bodies that convene governments or spit out major reports. Digging up minerals on the ocean floor is an entirely speculative venture at this point, but one that could decide the clean-energy future - or turn the seafloor into a wasteland, much like we’re doing to the terrestrial world. There, an obscure international body is in the process of setting regulations for deep-sea mining. But it could get a lot busier soon depending on how things go in Jamaica this week. It’s the bottom of the damn ocean, a place few have ventured.
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