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[“Astronaut-fish” – image generated by https://app.runwayml.com/ ] An intense discussion is now going on at the International Seabed Authority (ISA), starting in March 2024, and proceeding up to August, for its various instances, committees, and general assembly.The most critical point concerns the call for licenses, which are being advanced by several commercial mining entities, to

[SRI delegation in the picture, from left: Werner Grandl, Adriano V. Autino] Contributions by Robert Katz, Frank White, Mikhail Baskov, Emeline Paat-Dahstrom Honorable Chair, Distinguished Delegates: Space Renaissance International’s Pre-COPUOS global, day-long virtual summit on the 12th of June was well attended by many from our Space 18th SDG Coalition 81 partners, representing developed and

Writing from Vienna, at the COPUOS Legal Subcommittee 63rd session, 15-26 April 2024. Three speeches, so far, were released by members of our Space 18th SDG Coalition: a technical presentation, by Alfred Anzaldua, on behalf of NSS, and two oral speeches, by Adriano V. Autino (SRI), and Frederick Jenet (NSS). Alfred Anzaldua, 19 April “Organizing internationally

This time I don’t feel like sharing wishes for the end-of-the-year fests. This is not an SRI Newsletter, just a personal thought I want to share. The reason is the dreadful situation of the world these last days, or should I say in these months or years. We are witnessing the evident proof of the

A newsletter with 2 titles! The SRI President Bernard Foing and the SRI CEO and Founder A. V. Autino are in agreement on the text of this newsletter, but not on the title(!). We decided therefore to issue it with two titles. The first one, by A.V. Autino, establishes an ideological distance from the governance

There have been rumors in recent weeks, that the United Nations Secretariat was now looking beyond 2030, and that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was somewhat outdated. We don’t know if that is true, or just a speculation. If true, what does it mean? Have the United Nations realized that the 17 SDGs were

(WHY TRUE ENVIRONMENTALISTS SHOULD BE THE BEST SPACE SETTLERS’ FRIENDS) The European Parliament has passed (by a very narrow majority) a law to divest 20 percent of farmland in favor of restoring a “natural” environment. On the wave of panic caused by the climate crisis and suffocating plastic pollution, the European Union Parliament decided to