The Metals Company

Key points The webinar, delivered September 23, 2020 to Imperial College London’s Centre for Environmental Policy, presents a yearlong study by Daina Paulikas and Dr. Steven Katona comparing the impacts of sourcing battery metals from land-based ores versus deep-sea polymetallic…

Key points Gerard Barron, DeepGreen’s chairman and CEO, addresses students at Imperial College Business School’s Centre for Climate Finance & Investment, citing a World Bank estimate that the green transition will require five times today’s metal production. He says…

Key points The yearlong study, led by consultant Daina Paulikas and marine ecologist Dr. Steven Katona, compares environmental, social and economic impacts of sourcing battery metals from land ores versus deep-sea polymetallic nodules, using a scenario of 1 billion electric vehicles.…

Key points DeepGreen CEO Gerard Barron tells Yale/Brown lecturer Cary Krosinsky that the low-carbon transition needs significantly more metals than today’s supply. Barron says land ore grades are falling, pushing mining into more biodiverse habitats and releasing more carbon as CO2. He…

Key points The Metals Company is exploring an area of the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean roughly 4km deep. A box core’s round trip from the surface to the seabed and back takes about three hours.

Key points Nauru was the first developing country to participate in the International Seabed Authority (ISA). Nauru Minister Rennier Gadabu says the country partnered with DeepGreen to be part of the solution as the world moves away from fossil fuel industries. DeepGreen’s Chief Ocean…

Key points DeepGreen CEO Gerard Barron tells Yale/Brown lecturer Cary Krosinsky that the green transition could come at a very heavy environmental price if metals keep coming from land-based mining. The company’s analysis covers full lifecycle carbon sequestration, CO2 emissions and…