Deep Sea Mining Exposed: Inside the Fight to Save the Ocean's Last Frontier

Is deep-sea mining sustainable? Not from an environmental impact, I think we know the answer to that, but from an economical impact.

Can people make money from deep-sea mining? We're gonna talk about the environment, the economics, all about deep-sea mining today, and we're gonna be talking about the importance of the deep sea with my guest today, Matthew Gianni.

He is the co-founder and political and policy advisor for the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition out of Europe.

He's here to talk to us about how he got started in the environmental world, going from a deep-sea trawling off the coast of California, to landing a job at Greenpeace, to now co-founding the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, and working for over 30 years in this business to be able to bring you some conservation of the deep sea.

So we're gonna talk about the importance of the deep sea, the environment, and what are the latest updates from the International Seabed Authority meeting that just happened in July.

It's the second meeting they do of the two meetings this year.

It was happening in Kingston, Jamaica, and there's some really interesting things that came out of that meeting, so we're gonna talk about it on today's episode of the How to Protect the Ocean podcast.

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Matthew was an amazing guest.

He is a lot of fun to be able to discuss it.

It's the first time I've met him, but having the conversation, I believe we could have talked for three more hours at least.

And we'll have him back on, talk more updates on not only deep-sea mining, which is a big, big issue right now, but also we're gonna talk about deep sea and why it's important and all the different animals that come out from there that we all love, and some people call monsters, but I think call, like, aliens and cool things, and just cool adaptations to the deep sea is what we're gonna see over the future.

But deep-sea mining is right at the forefront of a lot of news that's happening, not only from the International Seabed Authority, which is the governing authority from the UN that looks after setting the regulations of if deep-sea mining is actually gonna happen, whether it's gonna happen, and we got some really interesting economic updates on this, not only environmental updates, and also movement towards moratorium.

So we're gonna hear that from Matthew.

But also, like, we've seen a big push from the US government, the Trump administration, that wants to do deep-sea mining.

We've talked about it on the podcast before.

There's been some public inquiries or some public comment periods that have been ignored, and then the size of the area that they're gonna mine or potentially might have doubled if not tripled, the metals companies involved.

We're gonna talk all about that today and how that's influencing deep-sea mining, and maybe it's just not gonna happen at all.

So we're gonna hear that from Matthew.

So here's the interview from Matthew Gianni, co-founder and political and policy advisor for the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition.

Enjoy the interview, and I'll talk to you after.