Norway plans to offer Arctic seabed areas for mineral licensing by 2025, targeting minerals for green energy.
Norway plans to offer large Arctic seabed areas for mineral licensing by 2025, potentially becoming the first to start commercial deep-sea mining. The country aims to extract minerals needed for green energy technologies like solar panels, wind turbines, and electric car batteries. However, environmentalists and other countries, including France, have criticized the plans and called for a global moratorium to better understand the potential impact on deep-sea organisms.
June 26, 2024
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