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WWF-Norway says the government has breached the law ‘without adequately assessing the consequences’

The decision to permit exploratory deep-sea extraction of valuable minerals breaks a promise to the other nations on the Ocean Panel and to scientists. The decision to permit exploratory deep-sea extraction of valuable minerals breaks a promise to the other nations on the Ocean Panel and to scientists.

With crossings opened for longer, water supplies restored and UN staff able to safely distribute food, we can limit the scale of this catastrophe. This article was originally published in The Guardian and the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.The Parliament of Norway has voted to allow deep-sea mining to go forward in the Norwegian Sea, in an area nearly the size of Italy, and despite warnings from scientists and conservationists of its impact on the marine environment.

Last year was the hottest on record by a large margin, according to EU climate data covered by much of the world’s press.

Norway’s parliament voted for a bill to allow deep-sea mining for minerals in the Arctic waters of the Norwegian Sea.