Films
Towards the abyss: How the rush to deep-sea mining threatens people and our planet
The deep sea remains a pristine ecosystem, largely untouched by human activity. But deep-sea mining, which could be allowed to start as early as July 2023 threatens to significantly disturb the delicate environment of the deep sea, with devastating consequences for life on earth.
Webinar: "Deep-sea mining: A new industry threatens our ocean"
A new industry is threatening our ocean: Deep-sea mining risks destroying fragile marine ecosystems, precious habitats and undiscovered species, with potentially devastating consequences for our planet’s health, local and indigenous communities, and future generations.
Hidden by murky governance and conflicts of interest, we cannot let companies strip mine the seabed against the opposition of people, scientists, governments and many of the companies they claim they would be providing for. We urgently need to stop deep-sea mining before it has even started.
Recording of the 147th episode of Europe Calling in cooperation with the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) with:
- Steffi Lemke, German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
- Steven Trent, Executive Director and Founder of the Environmental Justice Foundation
- Dr Lisa Levin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, USA, one of the world's leading experts on the deep seafloor
- Claudia Becker, Senior Expert Sustainable Supply Chain Management at the car manufacturer BMW
- Franziska Brantner, Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection
Ocean Defenders: capturing evidence to crack down on illegal fishing in Senegalese waters
Deadly bargain: Western markets and violence against Indigenous people
Pantanal on offer: Global markets and the destruction of the largest tropical wetland on the planet
On the Precipice: crime and corruption in Ghana's Chinese-owned trawler fleet
Fisheries that millions of Ghanaians depend on are at risk of collapse as a result of brazen illegal fishing, catastrophic overfishing by Chinese-owned industrial trawlers and a culture of corruption which has allowed these crimes to go unpunished.
EJF’s investigation draws on evidence from interviews with Ghanaian crew who have witnessed these abuses first-hand, filmed evidence, a network of informants and analysis of vessel tracking data. The picture which emerges is one of systematic corruption that enables illegal fishing and human rights abuses to go unreported and unpunished in the country’s waters. From port authorities to Navy officials, EJF alleges that the web of corruption is so deep and entangled that sustainability, and the defence of human rights, is impossible without reform.
