Highlights and images for 16 July 2018

Summary

Highlights for Monday, 16 July 2018

A Jamaican flag outside the venue

On Monday, 16 July, the Council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) opened for the second part of the 24th Session in Kingston, Jamaica. Following administrative matters, the Council addressed in an informal format the financial model under the draft exploitation regulations, focusing on:

options for a financial payment system for polymetallic nodules;

implementing the common heritage principle in the context of the payment system; and

the inclusion of environmental costs in the payment system.

For extensive details on the day’s negotiations and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin.

IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB+ Meeting Coverage, provided daily digital web coverage and daily reports in English and French from ISA-24. In addition, IISD Reporting Services, will publish a summary and analysis report from ISA-24 on Sunday, 29 July 2018.

Photos by IISD/ENB | Diego Noguera

L-R: Richard Roth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Alfonso Ascencio-Herrera, ISA Legal Counsel and Deputy to the Secretary-General; Michael Lodge, ISA Secretary-General; Olav Myklebust, Council President for the 24th Session; Michelle Walker, Chair of the Legal and Technical Commission (LTC); and Gwénaëlle Le Gurun, ISA Secretariat