Global Ocean Forum

Join the Global Ocean Forum and Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute for a panel discussion on building a sustainable blue economy as we explore: 🔹 Strategies for sustainable ocean planning 🔹 Barriers to developing a sustainable blue economy and how to overcome them 🔹 Galvanizing support from the private sector and civil society 🔹 Actions needed at national and international levels 🔹 Special considerations for small island developing States and least developed countries 📅 Date: March 4, 2025 ⏰ Time: 12:00-1:30PM EST / 6:00-7:30PM CET 📍 Venue: Zoom 🔗 Register now: https://lnkd.in/exUx4SKg Panelists include: 🔹 Cynthia Barzuna, Ocean Action 2030 Coalition Director, World Resources Institute 🔹 Cary Anne Cadman, Caribbean Blue Economy Lead, The World Bank 🔹 Jérémie Adlerfligel, Third Secretary, Permanent Mission of Monaco to the United Nations 🔹 Nigel Bradly, Chief Executive Officer, EnviroStrat 🔹 James Merchant, Marine Natural Capital Analyst, Marine Conservation Society   This will be the third and final installment of the Ocean and Climate Action Webinar Series. The discussion will be moderated by Tony MacDonald (UCI) and Miriam Balgos (GOF). #ClimateAction #OceanAction #Sustainablity #BlueEconomy

🚨 Join us in 1 hour for the latest edition of the Ocean & Climate Action Webinar Series: Current Status and Future of the Global Plastics Treaty🚨 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eCabt6pT

🌍 Ocean & Climate Action Webinar Series 🌊 🌊 Join the Global Ocean Forum and Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute TOMORROW for a panel discussion on the Global Plastics Treaty as we explore: 🔹 Treaty progress & challenges 🔹 Managing the plastics life cycle 🔹 Funding solutions for sustainability Panelists include: 🔹 Ms. Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on Plastic Pollution (UN Environment Programme) 🔹 Ms. Margaret Spring, Chief Conservation and Science Officer, Monterey Bay Aquarium 🔹 Dr. Marjo Vierros, Head of Science Policy Research, Ocean Voices Programme 🔹 Ms. Daniela Durán González, Senior Legal Campaigner for the Upstream Plastics Treaty, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) This panel will be moderated by Mr. Tony MacDonald, Director, Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute, and Dr. Miriam Balgos, Executive Director, Global Ocean Forum. 🔗 Register now: https://lnkd.in/eCabt6pT #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #OceanClimateAction #Sustainability #PlasticPollution

🚨 Don't miss the High-level Closing Event of the COP29 Virtual Ocean Pavilion!🚨 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/e-uwUtqX 🔗 Virtual Ocean Pavilion: https://lnkd.in/d9VP27hG 👉 Join us at 9AM US EST / 3PM CET / 6PM AZT for our final event, Taking the Leap into Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: Navigating the BBNJ Agreement together in the context of climate change, will be a panel discussion featuring high-level speakers from representing government, academia, and civil society representatives from around the world. 🌊 This session will be moderated by David Freestone (Sargasso Sea Commission) with distinguished panelists Ambassador Gina Guillen-Grillo (Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto de Costa Rica), Jérémie Adlerfligel (Gouvernement Monaco), Dr. Andrew Hume (Global Environment Facility), Raphaël Goulet (European Commission), Dr. Lisa Levin (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Gina Torry (International Center for Dialogue and Peacebuilding ), Valentina Germani (United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of The Sea (UNDOALOS)), and Miriam Balgos (Global Ocean Forum). 🤝 This event is organized by Global Ocean Forum and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), the co-organizers of the #COP29 Virtual Ocean Pavilion #ocean #climate #bbnj #abnj #virtualoceanpavilion #cop29

📢 Live now: Join us on the Virtual Ocean Pavilion platform for our next live event, Ocean, climate and biodiversity interlinkages: Advances in understanding of the nature-climate nexus, a panel discussion organized by Fauna & Flora 🌊 This session will be moderated by Daniel Bayley (Fauna & Flora ) with speakers including Ana Queirós (Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)) David Obura (CORDIO East Africa), Ruth Dunn (Lancaster University, Heriot-Watt University), and Gizem Akdoğan (Akdeniz Koruma Derneği) 📲 Access the event from the Pavilion platform here: https://lnkd.in/d9VP27hG #ocean #nature #climate #biodiversity #VOP #COP29 #virtual

📢 Starting soon: Meet us on the Virtual Ocean Pavilion platform for a roundtable discussion on cross-sectoral governance of the ocean amidst a changing climate! 🌊 This session will be moderated by Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki (University of Wollongong) with speakers including Genevieve Quirk, PhD (University of Adelaide), Madeleine Pears (Pacific Islands Forum), Yolanda Molares Montero (FAO), Jose Estors Carballo (FAO), Vedika Mandapati (Global Choices), and Miriam Balgos (Global Ocean Forum). 📲 Access the event here: https://lnkd.in/d9VP27hG #ocean #climate #governance #VOP #COP29

🤝 Join us for the last day of live events at the COP29 Virtual Ocean Pavilion! All events are organized in Azerbaijan Time (GMT+4). 🔗 14:30-15:30: Linking Marine Areas within and Beyond National Jurisdiction: A cross-sectoral ocean governance approach in the context of climate change, a roundtable discussion on cross-sectoral ocean governance organized by Global Ocean Forum 🌊 16:00-17:30: Ocean, climate and biodiversity interlinkages: Advances in understanding of the nature-climate nexus, a panel discussion organized by Fauna & Flora 📜18:00-19:30: Taking the Leap into Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: Navigating the BBNJ Agreement together in the context of climate change, a high-level panel discussion and the closing event of the COP29 Virtual Ocean Pavilion organized by Global Ocean Forum and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) 📲 All event are accessible from the Virtual Ocean Pavilion platform. Register here: https://lnkd.in/d9VP27hG

Tomorrow (21 November) is the last day of live events at the #COP29 Virtual Ocean Pavilion! We are grateful to Fauna & Flora for organizing a panel discussion exploring links between ocean, climate, and biodiversity. Join us at 16:00 Azerbaijan Time (GMT+4) on the Pavilion platform to participate in this event. Registration is free to all and available here: https://lnkd.in/d9VP27hG Please visit the Pavilion Agenda tab within the Platform to see the full event program, as well as details and recordings of all our events for this year's Pavilion. #ocean #climate #nature #biodiversity #VirtualOceanPavilion

📢 Connect with youth ocean advocates during the COP29 Virtual Ocean Pavilion Youth-led Workshop 🌎 Youth delegates from Europe and North America will come together to identify priorities, concerns and aspirations in relation to the Challenge 10 of the United Nations Ocean Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. We are excited to welcome Mark Haver and Anaïs Deprez to provide keynote presentations to start the workshop. 💡Workshop participants will collaborate to outline effective, practical and innovative ocean-based solutions to climate change, and develop messages for policy-makers to be included in a youth manifesto amplifying young people’s voices and making their visions for a better ocean governance heard and considered in real policy and societal shifts. If you are interested in observing this session, please join us here: https://lnkd.in/eEBcNVgF This workshop is part of a series of thematic preparatory youth events organized by Nausicaa Centre National de la Mer and WORLD OCEAN NETWORK throughout the autumn and winter 2024 in view of the United Nations Ocean Conference to be held in Nice, France, in June 2025.

🚨Live on the Virtual Ocean Pavilion platform🚨 Join us for a roundtable discussion on gender moderated by Fiona Pelham with speakers Bernadette Snow, Eugenia Merayo García, and Bolanle Erinosho. Interventions will focus on the context of women and oceans, challenges within maritime sectors and a case study on small scale fisheries in Ghana. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eae_j3xQ All roundtables are accessible from the Roundtables tab within the Pavilion platform.