Summary
On Monday, 14 August, the Council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) exchanged preliminary views on the draft exploitation regulations that had been submitted by the Secretariat to the Legal and Technical Commission (LTC), and considered draft decisions on: the summary report of the LTC Chair, including a submission from the Netherlands on a tentative approval process of environmentally responsible mining technologies; and future elections of LTC members.
IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from the 23rd Annual Session of the International Seabed Authority. The summary and analysis report is now available in HTML and PDF.
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L-R: Alfonso Ascencio-Herrera, Legal Counsel and Deputy to the Secretary-General; Michael Lodge, ISA Secretary-General; Christine Griffiths, ISA Secretariat; Ariel Fernández, Argentina, Council President for the 23rd Session; and Gwénaëlle Le Gurun, ISA Secretariat
Ariel Fernández, Argentina, Council President for the
23rd Session
Michael Lodge, ISA Secretary-General
L-R: Andrés Rojas and Frida Armas-Pfirter, Argentina
Tevita Suka Mangisi, Tonga
Mehdi Remaoun, Algeria, on behalf of the African Group
Eduardo Bonilla, Chile
René Lefeber, the Netherlands
Malakai Finau, Fiji
Gaia Puleston, Australia
Maruthadu Sudhakar, India
Arne Küper, Germany
Kathy-Ann Brown, Jamaica
Ma Xinmin, China
Carlos García Soto, Spain
Kate Neilson, New Zealand
Arie Poluzzi, Indonesia
Gavin Watson, UK
Shinichi Yamanaka, Japan
Carlos Alberto Michaelsen den Hartog, Brazil, speaking on behalf of GRULAC
Jean-Michel Despax, France
Ibrahim Zanna, Nigeria
Piotr Nowak, Poland
L-R: Duncan Currie, Greenpeace; Matthew Gianni, Deep Sea Conservation Coalition; and Simon Walmsley, WWF
Karen Tan, Singapore
Kristina Gjerde, IUCN
Information posters on the ISA
L-R: Alfonso Ascencio-Herrera, Legal Counsel and Deputy to the Secretary-General; Wini Broadbelt, the Netherlands; Michael Lodge, ISA Secretary-General; and René Lefeber, the Netherlands
Cecilia Jaber, Mexico (left), in a conversation with delegates from Australia
Ariel Fernández, Argentina, Council President for the
23rd Session, with Carlos García Soto, Spain
L-R: Elisa Morgera, ENB/IISD Reporting Services, in a discussion with René Lefeber, the Netherlands
L-R: Malakai Finau, Fiji, in a conversation with Gwénaëlle Le Gurun and Anna Elaise, ISA Secretariat
Delegates from the Republic of Korea consulting