Surabhi Ranganathan (Rechtswissenschaften, Universität Cambridge)

Blue resources for the green transition: What is left out of the frame

This talk will begin with tracing the current debate on seabed mining. On the one side, there is a push for it, on the argument that seabed minerals are essential resources for the green energy transition, accompanied by enduring institutional and commercial efforts to cement an extractive imaginary of the sea. On the other side is a growing and important call to slow down and even pause these efforts while better scientific knowledge is collected about the ocean. It goes – or should go – without saying that the concerns expressed about the precipitate commencement of seabed mining are important and timely, and the view that precaution must be observed rightly enjoys wide support. Yet the discourse of the present day is notable also for what remains out of its frame or is taken for granted within it: the fundamental shape of the mining regime, questions of reparations, and the very telos of international law-making; the very matters, in fact, that speak to questions of resilience in these times

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