Deep-Sea Mining in Norway

🌱 What was planned? Despite largescale international and EU opposition, Norway’s parliament approved plans for commercial-scale deep-sea mining on its continental shelf in January 2024. Norway was the “first country in the world” to do so. The plan was to allow companies to apply to mine for minera

🌱 What has Norway decided? Norway has now become “the first country [in the world] to open its continental shelf up to deep-sea mining”. On 9 January 2024, the national parliament of Norway voted 80–20 in favor of permitting exploratory deep-sea mining on Norway’s continental shelf in the Norwegian