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The Fraught Election to Determine Who Will Call the Shots on Deep-Sea Mining

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Leticia Carvalho is clear what the problem is with the body she hopes to be elected to run: “Trust is broken and leadership is missing.” Today, at the headquarters of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Kingston, Jamaica, nations negotiating rules governing deep-sea mining face a critical vote that could impact the nascent industry for years: Who should be the next leader of the regulatory body? Carvalho, sponsored by Brazil, is in the running against the current secretary general, Michael Lodge, a British lawyer, who is being sponsored by Kiribati, a small Pacific state. The battle for leadership might sound to the average person like a remote, technical concern.

 

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