Webinar: Women contesting ‘equality’ and ‘empowerment’ in seabed mining and oceans governance
Channel: PANG Media
Date: 21/03/2022

Plans to commence deep-sea mining are advancing rapidly in the Pacific and are of enormous concern. Although it poses tremendous risks to the planet's largest ecosystem and its vast repository of biodiversity, experimental seabed mining could start in international waters as early as 2023.
 
In this feminist discussion, the panel share their views on the theme: "Women contesting 'equality' and 'empowerment' in seabed mining and oceans governance". 
 
The five speakers challenge the pinkwashing, greenwashing, and development washing of deep-sea mining by contesting their instrumentalization of gender equality.

Speakers:
1. Mariama Williams (DAWN Senior Associate on Political Ecology and Sustainability) – West Palm Beach, Florida.
2. Hon. Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, (member of Parliament of Aotearoa and co-leader of the Maori Party) – Wellington, NZ.
3. Pelenatita Kara – (CSO Forum Tonga, grassroots activist/campaigner against Tonga's sponsorship of DeepGreen/The Metals Company) 
4. Uta Schuchmann – Women and Gender Constituency & Women's Major Group rep at Climate conferences and BBNJ.
5. Maureen Penjueli – Coordinator for Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) a regional NGO based in Suva, Fiji
Moderator – Mereoni Chung

The webinar was co-hosted by Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) and Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) and held on 15 March 2022. 

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