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Trump’s deep-sea mining plan flouts international law | Letter

The Guardian UK Wednesday 26 August 2026, 16:06 UTC By Guardian Staff 1 min read
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Britain and other signatories to the UN convention on the law of the sea should protest against US proposal to lease seabed for mining, says Guy StandingYour article on Donald Trump’s plan to lease millions of hectares of seabed in the Pacific for deep-sea mining correctly points to the ecological disaster that this could unleash (US territories hit out at Trump plan to explore deep sea mining in the Pacific, 24 August).However, it does not mention that this plan contravenes international...

Britain and other signatories to the UN convention on the law of the sea should protest against US proposal to lease seabed for mining, says Guy Standing

Your article on Donald Trump’s plan to lease millions of hectares of seabed in the Pacific for deep-sea mining correctly points to the ecological disaster that this could unleash (US territories hit out at Trump plan to explore deep sea mining in the Pacific, 24 August).

However, it does not mention that this plan contravenes international law in the form of Unclos, the UN convention on the law of the sea, which has been ratified by 171 countries and the European Union. The US has not ratified it, but since 1982 has agreed to abide by its rules and procedures.

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