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Greenpeace comment on opening of UN Ocean Conference
With dozens of Heads of State expected to attend, the conference—co-hosted by France and Costa Rica—offers a crucial opportunity for governments to raise the level of global ambition on a suite of urgent ocean issues, including marine biodiversity, deep sea mining, and plastic pollution that will face key decisions in the coming months.
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UN Ocean Conference draft declaration fails to address the ocean crisis
Instead of taking bold, unified action to protect our ocean, we’re seeing dangerous backpedalling. Governments must stop allowing a handful of rogue nations to prevent the kinds of actions that science requires and justice demands.
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Greenpeace USA’s response to TMC’s push to fast-track deep sea mining in the High Seas under the U.S. Seabed Mining Code
Greenpeace USA condemns this reckless attempt by The Metals Company (TMC) to bypass international law and commercialize mining in the high seas and US-adjacent waters. It is nothing less than the plunder of the Pacific once again being pursued without the consent of Pacific Peoples.
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US government confirms their support for deep sea mining plans that bypass United Nations, Greenpeace response
Authorizing deep-sea mining outside international law is like lighting a match in a room full of dynamite — it threatens ecosystems, global cooperation, and U.S. credibility all at once.
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Greenpeace slams Impossible Metals’ deep-sea mining lease bid as desperate move amid industry collapse
WASHINGTON, D.C. (APRIL 15, 2025)—Today, Greenpeace USA condemned Impossible Metals’ application for a deep-sea mining lease off the coast of American Samoa, in U.S. federal waters, calling it a reckless…
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Greenpeace USA calls out deep sea mining industry secrecy and deception as it courts investors
"Their tactics reveal an industry, much like Big Oil, that prefers to operate in the shadows while preparing to inflict irreversible harm on our common heritage—the deep seas and oceans that sustain us all."
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Deep sea mining: understand the risks
Deep Sea Mining is a Risky Bet for Your Investment and the Planet.
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Greenpeace USA Applauds American Samoa’s Seabed Mining Moratorium
Urges Biden-Harris Action Amid “Dark Oxygen” Discovery Hawaiian elder, cultural advocate and former statesman, Solomon Pili Kahoʻohalahala (right) and Hawaian cultural advocate Ekolu Lindsey (left) with Greenpeace USA Ocean Campaigner…
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“Stop Deep Sea Mining” screened on Times Square billboard in New York
Hawai`i joins California, Oregon, and Washington in banning deep sea mining Hawaiian elder, cultural advocate and former statesman, Solomon Pili Kahoʻohalahala (right) and Hawaian cultural advocate Ekolu Lindsey (left) with…
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Greenpeace USA Welcomes Congressional Call for a Moratorium on Deep Sea Mining
Washington, DC (July 2, 2024)—In response to the recent letter led by U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Ed Case (D-Hawaii), signed by…