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Governments around the world must now step up to defend international rules and cooperation against rogue deep sea mining.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cLeaders will be meeting at the UN Oceans Conference in Nice in June where they must speak with one voice in support of a moratorium on this reckless industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Juressa Lee <\/strong>said: \u201cThe disastrous effects of deep sea mining recognise no international borders in the ocean. This will be another case of short-term profits for a very few, from the Global North, with the Pacific bearing the destructive impacts for generations to come.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/investors.metals.co\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/world-first-tmc-usa-submits-application-commercial-recovery-deep\">The Metals Company announcement<\/a> follows President Donald Trump\u2019s Executive Order fast-tracking deep sea mining in US and international waters, which Greenpeace says threatens Pacific sovereignty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s action bypasses the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the regulatory body which protects the deep sea and decides whether deep sea mining can take place in international waters.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Lee adds<\/strong>:<strong> <\/strong>\u201cThe Metals Company and Donald Trump are wilfully ignoring the rules-based international order and the science that deep sea mining will wreak havoc on the oceans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cPacific Peoples have deep cultural ties to the ocean, and we regard \u2018home\u2019 as more ocean than land. Our ancestors were wayfarers and ocean custodians who have traversed the Pacific and&nbsp; protected our livelihoods for future generations. This is the Indigenous knowledge we should be led by, to safeguard our planet and our environment. Deep sea mining is not the answer to the green transition away from carbon-based fossil fuels &#8211; it\u2019s another false solution.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s order follows negotiations in March at the ISA, at which governments refused to give wannabe miners The Metals Company a clear pathway to an approved mining application via the ISA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>32 countries around the world publicly support a moratorium on deep sea mining. 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