The Pacific island nation of Nauru and its roughly 11,000 residents are at the center of the increasingly contentious debate over whether the world's seabeds should be mined for nickel and other green energy transition minerals.
"Right now, the scientific evidence indicates that harm to marine environment would be permanent," said Beth Orcutt, an oceanographer at Maine's Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences who participated in the Jamaica talks.
Vancouver-based TMC is also pushing for standards to be set, but said it reserves the right to apply for a permit if the regulatory process stalls. Under existing rules, a mining application submitted by a country must first be vetted by the ISA's Legal and Technical Commission , which then issues recommendations to the ISA's ruling council. For a license to be granted, the plan would only need the backing of a third of the council's 36 members.
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