{"id":47934,"date":"2023-07-27T16:56:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T14:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/storie\/news-events\/estrazione-mineraria-dai-fondali-marini-limpegno-di-etica-sgr-per-proteggere-gli-oceani"},"modified":"2026-09-02T16:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:24:52","slug":"deep-seabed-mining-commitment-by-etica-funds-to-protect-our-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/storie\/insights\/deep-seabed-mining-commitment-by-etica-funds-to-protect-our-oceans","title":{"rendered":"Deep seabed mining, a commitment by Etica Funds to protect our oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"\nDeep seabed mining. Etica Funds has always been committed to giving a voice to issues relating to the protection and preservation of biodiversity in the financial world. In 2023, it signed the <strong>Global Financial Institutions Statement to Governments on Deep Seabed Mining<\/strong>, coordinated by the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation. Today, the statement has <strong>more than 40 financial institution signatories, collectively representing over EUR 3.9 trillion in assets under management<\/strong>.\n\nThe <em>Investor Statement<\/em>, addressed to the International Seabed Authority (ISA), urges governments to <strong>protect the oceans and refrain from proceeding with deep seabed mining<\/strong> until the environmental, social and economic risks have been fully understood and alternatives to deep-sea minerals have been thoroughly explored.\n\nThe appeal by Etica Funds and the other signatories reflects concerns expressed by the scientific community about the <strong>irreversible impact that mining could have on delicate and sensitive ocean ecosystems<\/strong>. Allowing mining in this largely unexplored environment would not only destabilise fragile marine ecosystems, but could also undermine the very foundations of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/storie\/tag\/economia-circolare\">circular ocean economy<\/a>.\n\nThree years after the statement was signed, the situation remains far from settled. On the contrary, while international rules continue to be delayed, the environmental debate has been joined by another issue that directly concerns investors. This is because <em>deep seabed mining<\/em>, even before being an environmental issue, remains <strong>a business whose economic sustainability is still unknown<\/strong>.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep seabed mining. Etica Funds has always been committed to giving a voice to issues relating to the protection and preservation of biodiversity in the financial world. In 2023, it signed the Global Financial Institutions Statement to Governments on Deep Seabed Mining, coordinated by the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation. Today, the statement has more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"custom-templates\/single-avanzato.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590,996],"tags":[22704,37535],"yst_prominent_words":[1422,1050,612,22589,1049],"class_list":["post-47934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","category-international-campaigns","tag-biodiversity","tag-environmental-campaign","temi-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47934"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66155,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47934\/revisions\/66155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47934"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=47934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}