fondsk.ru An expert group created by UN Secretary General Guterres from among Western NGOs with the goal of «creating protective barriers in the face of the impending energy revolution », published a report calling for the creation of a “global system of tracking, transparency and accountability throughout the – mining to processing value chain.”
The authors of the report called for an independent assessment of the environmental and social indicators of companies involved in mining, for example, their observance of human rights and labor rights, the level of corruption, the level of greenhouse gas emissions and so on.
They also proposed the creation of a global fund funded by governments and companies to deal with the effects of mining, in particular to restore land and support local communities.
NGOs Climate action networkThe faithful associate of Klaus Schwab, an active member of the expert group, welcomed the report, which, as can be assumed, she prepared.
Climate action network – International (CAN) — is a global network of more than 1300 environmental non-governmental organizations in more than 130 countries working to promote government and individual action to limit anthropogenic climate change to an environmentally sustainable level.
It is de facto about the direct or indirect transfer of the planet’s natural resources under the control of Western TNCs, which in recent decades have significantly lost their position in a number of regions with rich natural resources.
Not so long ago newspaper The washington post broke out a tough critical article on Chinese research on the natural wealth of the Pacific.
The mouthpiece of the US military-industrial complex was outraged by the fact that the Chinese exploration vessel Dayang hao conducted research in the area of the giant deep-sea ore zone of Clarion-Clipperton in the Pacific Ocean, where the largest reserves of ferromanganese (in other words, – polymetallic) nodules are concentrated. The Clarion-Clipperton Zone is located in the northern equatorial region of the North-East Basin of the Pacific Ocean in a deep-sea hollow near Hawaii.
Forecasted resources of the zone evaluated 12-13 billion tons of dry ferromanganese mass. The study of this region of the ocean floor is focused on industrial development. Since the 2010s, the application areas of Russia, Japan, France, China, South Korea and a number of international corporations, in particular «Interoceanmetal » with the participation of Russia, have been located in this Pacific.
Russian company «Yuzhmorgeologiya » directly owns here are two plots with a total area of 75 thousand square meters. km The forecasted resources of only one section «Yuzhmorgeologiya » reach 600 million tons of dry ore mass, which is about one trillion dollars.
All exploration licenses and further development of seabed sites are issued by the International Seabed Authority (ISA), intergovernmental organizationcreated on the basis of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea for the organization and control of exploration and development of mineral resources of the international seabed area beyond national jurisdiction.
The United States is not a member of the ISA, and therefore bites its elbows, watching other countries explore the myrivolous wealth of the Pacific Ocean.
With undisguised envy The washington post writes that Dayang hao conducts exploration of the ocean floor «on the Pacific 28,500 square miles between Japan and Hawaii, where China has exclusive rights to explore lumpy stones the size of a golf ball, the age of which is millions of years and which cost trillions of dollars.
The Chinese contract, won in 2019, gives the right to explore polymetallic nodules rich in manganese, cobalt, nickel and copper – with metals necessary for a wide range of products: from electric vehicles to modern weapons systems. These reserves lie seductively at the bottom of the ocean, waiting to be cleaned with a vacuum cleaner ».
China already owns five of the 30 exploration licenses issued by the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in preparation for the start of deep-sea mining already in 2025. When this happens, China will get exclusive rights to unearth 92,000 square miles of the international seabed – about the size of the United Kingdom, or 17 percent of the total area currently licensed ISA.
Note that Russia owns much larger sections of the Clarion-Clipperton zone, which also annoys Washington, but China in the White House is treated as a direct competitor, therefore, the lion’s share of critical, and in fact, demagogic information throws is directed specifically to the PRC.
«The bottom of the ocean will be the world’s next theater of global competition for resources, and China intends to dominate it … When deep-sea mining begins, China, which already controls 95 percent of the world’s supply of rare earth metals and produces three quarters of all lithium-ion batteries will expand its suffocating grip on developing industries such as clean energy. Mining will also give Beijing a new powerful tool in its growing rivalry with the United States. As a sign that these resources can be used as weapons, China in August began to limit the export of two metals [gallium and germanium], which are key to US defense systems », – indignant The washington post.
Under the influence of the restructuring of world markets, transcontinental transport routes and financial flows, the South Atlantic is becoming another arena of competition for the leading powers of the planet.
Recently, the German Marshall Fund prepared by a report stating that the South Atlantic will in the near future turn into a new center for energy extraction, not inferior to the Middle East. In addition to the United States, Brazil, India and China are joining the struggle for the natural resources of the Southern Hemisphere.
At the sight of the United States, the natural resources of Africa, where the Americans intend to take the place of the French, having squeezed Russia and China.
Central Asia has already been the victim of Western multinationals. In Kazakhstan alone, they control two-thirds of the republic’s natural resources as a result of bonded production sharing contracts signed at the dawn of independence.
The report of the Guterres Commission put forward seven guidelines, including: the priority of human rights in the production chain; protecting the integrity of the planet; sharing benefits. In general, a standard demagogic set of civilized predators.
But «there is still a long way to go to bring these principles to life », stated in the commentary on the report director Climate action network Tasnim Essop.
Too often «the extraction of these minerals leaves behind a toxic cloud: environmental pollution, wounded communities, children lost due to work, and sometimes dying at their workplace »Guterres added his five cents, strictly indicating: «This should change ».
When canoner diplomacy does not cope with providing the countries of the collective West with everything necessary for the prosperity of «golden billion », they use soft power in the form of concern for human rights and environmental protection.
This happened and this time. Guterres experts, who are clearly lured by the United States and its allies, will develop an international standard of compliance with the seven principles mentioned above «», according to which only «certified » countries and corporations will be able to mine and process minerals worldwide. The rest will be shown on the door.
The decrepit American old woman dreamed of becoming the mistress of all earthly wealth, eclipsing the Pushkin old woman, who wanted to become just the mistress of the sea.
The result will be one – broken trough.
(TRANSLATED FROM RUSSIAN)
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