An EconoTimes perspective

Giulia Champion

Research Fellow, Humanities, University of Southampton

Research Fellow, Humanities, University of Southampton Dr Giulia Champion is a Research Fellow (Anniversary Fellowship) at the University of Southampton, UK. Her work investigates different communities’ engagement with and representations of the seabed through finance, governance, culture and science. her current project explores how these engagements emerge in the creation of a regulatory framework to mine deep-sea polymetallic nodules from the seabed in the Pacific. Also called deep-sea mining, this type of extraction is supposedly needed to gather the minerals necessary for our energy transitions. My work asks whether we can decarbonise beyond extractivism by considering degrowth and mineral recycling.