India offshore mineral licensing programme
India's Ministry of Mines offshore/deep-sea mineral licensing programme under the Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002 and the Offshore Areas Mineral (Auction) Rules, 2024 — auctions, rule amendments, and regulatory course-corrections aimed at opening India's EEZ to composite (exploration + mining) licences for polymetallic nodules and crusts bearing cobalt, nickel, manganese, copper and rare earths. Distinct from pacific-seabed-minerals (Pacific SIDS jurisdictions under ISA-area governance) and em-resource-upstream-capture (export-ban upstream-capture instruments): this is a single large sovereign state's domestic offshore-licensing auction mechanism.
1 actionpeak severity 2· 2 sectors· 1 issuer· avg sev 2.0
No bilateral issuer→target vectors in this theme — likely a thematic cluster of domestic industrial-policy actions where the riposte forecast doesn’t apply (no cross-border counterparties).