Key points
- DeepGreen CEO Gerard Barron says the company is on the verge of becoming the first to extract minerals from the seafloor, calling it “a big responsibility to be first.”
- Barron says the area DeepGreen operates in contains enough polymetallic nodules to satisfy future metal demand for the transition, without needing to expand into other ocean areas.
- He commits to transparency: publishing regularly, inviting the public to follow the project, and hiring top talent, aiming to set a “golden standard” for the industry.
- Barron says this standard, combined with a central regulator holding all operators to a high bar, is key to protecting the ocean environment DeepGreen works in.
