This high-level Davos-style discussion, hosted by Transport & Environment, Ocean Conservancy and the Friends of Ocean and Climate group, focused on mobilizing concrete ocean-based climate action and encouraging Parties to include and implement ocean-based climate solutions, such as actions to reduce emissions from international shipping, plastic pollution and increase offshore renewables, in their NDCs, NAPs, and other national climate plans.
Run of show:
- 16:45-16:49 Welcome
Luis Estevez-Salmeron, Associate Director, International Government Relations, Ocean Conservancy
- 16:50-16:55 Keynote
His Excellency, Ambassador Peter Thomson, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean
- 16:55 – 17:35 Ocean-based climate mitigation: From Policy to Action
Moderator: Susan Ruffo, Senior Advisor for Ocean and Climate, United Nations Foundation
Beatriz Yordi, Director Carbon Markets and Clean Mobility, DG Clima, European Commission
Ambassador Ilana Seid, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Palau to the UN
Kate Guy, Senior Advisor and Managing Director for Cross-Cutting Climate Issues in the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, United States
Gonzalo Guaiquil, Plastics and Climate Change Coordinator and UNFCCC SBI Vice Chair, at Directorate of Environment, Climate Change and Oceans, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chile
Catherine Chabaud, Member of the European Parliament, France Renew
- 17:35-18:10 Spotlight on Ocean-Based Decarbonization
Steffi Lemke, Minister of Environment, Germany
Simon Benmarraze, Team Lead, Renewable Energy Technology and Infrastructure, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Aarthi Ananthanarayanan, Director, Plastics and Climate Initiative, Ocean Conservancy
William Todts, Executive Director, Transport & Environment
- 18:11-18:14 Closing remarks
Beatriz Yordi, Director Carbon Markets and Clean Mobility, DG Clima, European Commission