While civil society, governments and United Nations agencies are striving to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during the Sustainable Ocean Decade (2021-2030), deep-sea mining could seriously undermine progress towards them and compromise planetary life-support systems.
This policy brief by Seas At Risk presents the (negative) relation between the prospects of advancing deep-sea mining with the achievement of key SDGs during the remainder of the decade, and beyond.
Posted on: 3 March 2023
