技術・事例報告
公海での深海底鉱物資源開発に係る環境影響評価について
2019 年 17 巻 2 号 p. 52-57
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2019 年 17 巻 2 号 p. 52-57
A German public research institution called BGR and a Belgian private company called GSR respectively submitted an Environmental Impact Statement (“EIS”) to the International Seabed Authority (“ISA”) in March 2018. Each of the EIS focused on environmental impacts arising from testing activities using a pre-prototype polymetallic nodule collector vehicle on the seafloor at the depth of approximately 4,100 m and 4,500 m respectively in the area beyond the limits of national jurisdictions (“the Area”), where each of them has an exploration license under the contract with the ISA. As far as we know, these were the first EIS in the world produced under the context of deep seabed mining in the Area. In this paper, we explore what are described in each of the EIS.
