A field of manganese nodules

Highlights and images for 17 July 2026

Kingston, Jamaica

  1. Negotiations
  2. International Seabed Authority
  3. 2nd Part of the 31st Annual Session of the International Seabed Authority
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(Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research)

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Council President Mayank Joshi, India

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Podium during the morning session about Informal Working Group on cross-cutting issues REMPs 

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Emma van den Boogaard, Facilitator of Informal Working Group on cross-cutting issues REMPs, the Netherlands

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Henning Meidel Johnsen, Facilitator of Informal Working Group on Environmental Management and Monitoring, Norway

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Ingo Narberhaus, Germany

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Matthew Gianni, Deep Sea Conservation Coalition

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Laurence LeBlanc, Facilitator Informal Working Group, proposed by Chile, Costa Rica on Effective Control, Canada

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Azra Haque, Facilitator Informal Working Group, proposed by Chile, Costa Rica on Effective Control, Canada

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Azra Haque, Facilitator Informal Working Group, proposed by Chile, Costa Rica on Effective Control, Canada

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All ENB photos are free to use with attribution. For the Second part of the 31st session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) meeting, please use: Photo by IISD/ENB | Andrés Felipe Carvajal Gómez

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Roberto Canseco Martínez, Mexico

Barbara Perrenoud, Brazil

Daniel Hill, Canada

Marta Gallegos, Spain

Beatrice Chen, Singapore

Brittany Kamai, Maui Nui Makai Network

Livia Ermakova, Russian Federation

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