Tag: Seabed mining ban
Indigenous Kanaks support New Caledonia’s 50-year ban on seabed mining
By Andrew Mathieson
New Caledonia has imposed a 50-year ban on deep-sea mining across its entire maritime zone in a rare and sweeping move that...
Vanuatu fights for marine protection at key UN deep-sea mining summit
By Stephen Wright in Kingston, Jamaica
Vanuatu has taken a leading role in a bloc of nations fighting to keep marine environment protection on the...
‘I’m not begging’, Tahiti’s Brotherson tells France in prep for independence
RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's new President Moetai Brotherson is in Paris for wide-ranging talks with the French government and the organisers of the 2024 Paris...
‘This industry will trash our moana’ warning but bid to ban...
By Karoline Tuckey, RNZ News journalist
A call for the first reading of a member's bill banning seabed mining altogether was voted down at Parliament...
