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The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has elected Leticia Carvalho of Brazil as its next secretary general, as pressure mounts for a pause on efforts to mine the sea floor for minerals for use in the energy transition.

Carvalho told The Guardian last month that rules governing deep-sea mining will take time and that no mining application should be approved before they are complete.

Canada’s The Metals Company (TMC) has said it is seeking a licence by year-end to extract minerals from the ocean floor.

The rush to complete the mining code was triggered by the Pacific island state of Nauru saying it would submit a mining licence application on behalf of TMC, which triggered the so-called “two-year rule” in 2021.

That rule allows mining applications to be submitted within two years, whether the mining code has been finalised or not.

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