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The Metals Company contracts CSIRO-led consortium to develop environmental monitoring and management plan for deep-sea nodule collection

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The company through its subsidiaries holds exploration and commercial rights to three polymetallic nodule contract areas in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean regulated by the International Seabed Authority and sponsored by the governments of Nauru, Kiribati and the Kingdom of Tonga. Deep sea mining remains controversial.

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The Metals Company and Low Carbon Royalties form strategic partnership

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to finance the development and production of low-carbon fuels and energy transition metals. However, relative to other parts of the value chain, global investment in mining of energy transition metals is lagging. TMC and LCR have agreed to a purchase and sale agreementwhereby LCR has acquired a 2.0%

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DeepGreen lifecycle analysis argues for sourcing EV battery materials from deep-sea polymetallic nodules

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Taking that as a baseline, if 1 billion cars are replaced with EVs (the current global light-duty vehicle parc is soe 1.3 —Todd Cort, co-director of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment and Cary Krosinsky, lecturer in sustainable finance at the Yale School of Management.

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