The session takes place via zoom at 9am EST, 1pm GMT September 28.

Environment officials and campaigners have called for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining and on issuing new exploration contracts unless marine ecosystems can be effectively protected.

Coal mining is more commonly criticised by environmentalists for polluting air and water, degrading landscapes and fuelling climate change than for creating new wildlife habitats.

Results from an industry-first trial in 2020 showed that copper is effective at killing up to 99.9% of bacteria on high-touch transit surfaces.

Project will seek to produce data to reduce the cost of geophysical characterisation of the subsurface and develop a safer resource extraction process.