Plans to commence deep-sea mining are advancing rapidly in the Pacific region and are of enormous concern. Although it poses tremendous risks to the planet’s largest ecosystem and its vast repository of biodiversity, experimental seabed mining could start in international waters as early as 2023.
On March 15, DAWN held a feminist discussion about seabed mining and ocean governance on the panel: “Women contesting ‘equality’ and ’empowerment’ in seabed mining and oceans governance”, during CSW66.
Speakers brilliantly challenged the pinkwashing, greenwashing, and development washing of deep-sea mining by contesting their instrumentalization of gender equality.