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… Protecting coastal and marine environments from mining waste WELCOMING the call through United Nations … caused by dumping at sea; ALSO AWARE that the dumping of mining waste on the sea floor (submarine tailings disposal – STD), and the marine and coastal depositing of mining-related wastes may significantly harm the marine …

… Integrating Mining and Biodiversity Conservation Case studies from around … is Biodiversity Conservation Important? 2 Perspectives on Mining and Biodiversity Conservation 4 Management Tools 7 … Tailings to Biodiversity Initiative, Canada 46 Integrating Mining and Biodiversity Conservation: Case studies from …

… ecosystem and biodiversity from the threats of seabed mining RECALLING the pertinent provisions of the United … a major impact in relation to the future exploitation of mining resources, namely in the seabed ecosystems with … influence the pace and development of future deep seabed mining; NOTING ALSO the obligations under the CBD, in …

… Table of contents 1. Primary Mercury Mining (Article 3.4) 2. Mercury supply sources and trade … compounds (Article 5) 5. Artisanal and small-scale gold-mining (Article 7) 6. Emissions (Article 8) and releases … 11) and contaminated sites (Article 12) 1. Primary Mercury Mining (Article 3.4) The Minamata Convention bans new primary …

… Global instruments 2. Regional instruments 3. Deep Seabed Mining 1. Global instruments UNCLOS article 208(3) expresses … 3. Deep Seabed Mining Deep seabed mining may become soon a source of marine pollution. Most …