What to think about deep-sea mining for clean-energy minerals
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The ISA Mining Code
The countries of the ISA have been meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, periodically to come up with this exploitation rulebook. The UN defines the seabed resources as the common heritage of humankind. So you would pay royalties to all of the humans of the earth. How does that work? That's one of the many sticking points and negotiations at the ISA right now.
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