Lessons Learned for Deep Sea Mining

• Protect the deep sea from mining, create laws that impose that deep sea mining is a non-profit activity and concert the deep sea into world heritage site;
• Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
• Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with DSM without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
• The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without a strong political will;
• Follow-up on motivated participants of how they used the knowledge obtained in workshops for their private and professional projects;
• Create decision-making processes that are participative, transparent and allow for public deliberation;
• Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
• Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
• Analyze the impact of plumes and waste produced by Deep Sea Mining exploitation;
• Try to develop a stronger engagement between schools and the local authorities for the maintenances of basic infrastructure;
• Make environmental impact assessment mandatory for Deep Sea Mining within the EU;
• Support local and international decision-makers in charge of evaluating if, when, how, by who and for what should Deep Sea Miningever take place;
• Oblige companies by contract to use 10% of their investment in an investigation in engineering design for mitigation of Deep Sea Mining during all the operation;
• Work together (science, law, economics, policy) to give advice on seabed mining issues;
• Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
• Distinguish between occurrences and resources, in order to know what exists and its potential economic value;
• Educate children on the importance of biodiversity and how to think about the environment responsibly;
• Promote public engagement actions to raise awareness to the urgency of deep sea mapping;
• Increase awareness in the use of raw materials and their importance on our society;
• Bring researchers from ‘non-conventional’ areas related to Deep Sea Mining;
• Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
• Invite additional stakeholders and communities to join the MARINA knowledge sharing platform and direct them to the results and materials related to Deep Sea Mining;
• Identify what are the society perceptions and knowledge gaps to be considered in future planning of Deep Sea Mining research and innovation initiatives;
• There is the need of a international coordination to identify the possible impacts of innovations;
• Inform in a wider manner all societal actors about the issue.

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Marine Sector