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These uncertainties are The ISA’s Legal and Technical Commission due to the experimental nature of the which drafts the Mining Code is closed to mining as well as the lack of knowledge civil society participation, despite receiving about the ecosystems of the deep ocean direction from the ISA Assembly to meet in and the ways in which these connect with open sessions. [...] He used the in the absence of meaningful public opportunity to promote his company and debate and with little consideration of the to urge the ISA towards completing the precautionary principle and the free, prior deep sea Mining Code. [...] The Some investors in first-mover seabed urgency of the species extinction crisis mining companies have already made we now face demands a moratorium handsome profits based on speculation on the development and the adoption about the possibility and the potential of seabed mining regulations as well of DSM in the Pacific Ocean, without as on the issuing of exploration and undertaking any actual mi. [...] the Pacific region through an apparent Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga have sponsored alliance between companies (in particular ISA exploration licences in the Clarion DeepGreen Metals), national leaders Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ) in (especially the President of Nauru and his the eastern Pacific with the support of government), the Secretariat of the Pacific subsidiaries of the companies Nautilus C. [...] In doing so, ISA challenges in undertaking effective has the duty to adopt appropriate rules, environmental impact assessments regulations and procedures to ensure This reality, and the lobbying of the effective protection of the marine companies to weaken the environmental environment from harmful effects that aspects of the ISA Mining Code, could see WHY THE RUSH? SEABED MINING IN THE PACIFIC |.