Videos & Presentations
Welcome and Opening Ceremony
Welcome Remarks, Professor Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director,
European Environment Agency 
Oceans, Coasts and Small Island Developing States at the Frontline of
Climate Change, Dr. Biliana Cicin-Sain, Co-chair and Head of Secretariat,
Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands, and University of Delaware 
The Imperative of Linking Climate and Oceans in the New Climate
Regime, Dr. Fadel Muhammad,Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries,
Indonesia
Oceans and Climate Change, The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of
State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
United Kingdom
Keynote Address, H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco
Panel 1: Impacts of Climate Change on Oceans, Coasts, and Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Ocean Warming, Sea Level Rise, Extreme Weather Events, Ocean Acidification, Coastal Erosion, Polar Changes, Impacts on Fisheries and Aquaculture, Impacts on Marine Biodiversity
Chair: Dr. Patricio Bernal, Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO
Panelists:
Overview
Dr. Tony Haymet, Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Dr. Susan Avery, Director and President,Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Impacts on Tropical Environments
Dr. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director, Global Change Institute, University of
Queensland
Dr. Indroyono Soesilo, Secretary, Coordinating Ministry for Peoples’
Welfare, Indonesia
Polar Changes and Impacts on the World
Dr. Martin Sommerkorn, Senior Climate Change Advisor,
Arctic Program,WWF
Ms. SheilaWatt-Cloutier, former Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Council
Impacts on Fisheries and Aquaculture
Ms. Cassandra De Young, Fisheries Policy, FAO
Dr. Edward Allison, Policy Director,WorldFish Center
Dr. Svein Sundby, Leader of The Climate-Fish Programme,
Institute of Marine Research, Norway
Impacts on Marine Biodiversity
Dr. Gary Borisy,Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory
Mr. Christophe Lefebvre, French Marine Protected Areas Agency
Panel 2: Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2 Problem
Chair: Dr. Carol Turley, Senior Scientist, Plymouth Marine Laboratory,
POGO, European Project on Ocean Acidification and the UK Programme
on Ocean Acidification
Panelists:
Dr. Victoria Fabry, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography
Dr. Robert Dunbar, Center for Ocean Solutions,
Stanford University
Dr. Scott Doney,Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Mr. Tariq Banuri, Director, Division for Sustainable Development, UNDESA
Ms. Jacqueline Savitz, Oceana
Panel 3. Ocean-Based Mitigation Responses to Climate Change
Chair: Dr. Alan Simcock, Former Co-Chair, UN Open-ended Informal
Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea
Panelists:
Dr. Ralph Rayner, Vice President, IMarEST
Ms. Karin Sjolin-Frudd, Senior Adviser, Marine Environment Division,
International Maritime Organization (IMO)
Dr. David Johnson, Executive Secretary, OSPARM
Mr. Jonathan McDonnell, Project Manager, Danish Yacht
Mr. Carl Lundin, Head, IUCN Global Marine Programme
Panel 4. Adaptation Responses to Climate Change
Chair:
Dr. Friedrich Barth, Director, Energy and Environment Group, UNDP
Panelists:
Global Perspectives
Ms. Lynne Hale, Director, Global Marine Initiative,
The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Jacqueline Alder, Coordinator,Marine and Coastal
Ecosystems Branch, UNEP
Mr. Christian Severin, Program Manager, InternationalWaters, GEF
Regional, National, and Local Perspectives
Dr. Nguyen Chu Hoi, Deputy Administrator, VietnamAdministration for
Seas and Islands
Dr. Evelia Rivera Arriaga, Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Aprovechamiento Sustentable,
Gobierno del Estado de Campeche, on behalf of,
Mr. Fernando E. Ortega Bernes, Governor, State of Campeche,Mexico
Mr. Mike Chrisman, Secretary for Natural Resources, California, US
Dr. Ram Boojh, National Professional Officer, Ecological and Earth
Sciences, UNESCO, India
Panel 5. Mobilizing Governments and the Public and Private Sectors for Action
Chair:
Mr. David S.McCauley, Principal Climate Change Specialist, Climate
Change Program Coordination Unit, Regional and Sustainable
Development Department, Asian Development Bank
Panelists:
National and Regional Initiatives
Dr. Paul N. Otuoma, Minister for Fisheries Development, Kenya
Dr. Kwame Koranteng, Coordinator, EAF-Nansen Project, Fisheries
Management and Conservation Service (FIMF), Food and Agriculture
Organization
The Coral Triangle Initiative
Dr. Fadel Muhammad, Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Indonesia
Mr. Gordon Darcy Lilo,Minister of Environment, Conservation and
Meteorology, Solomon Islands
Mobilizing the Public and Private Sectors for Action
Mr. Philippe Vallette, General Manager, NAUSICAA and Co-President,
World Ocean Network
Panel 6. Moving Forward on Oceans and Climate in a Post-Copenhagen Regime
Chair: Ambassador Ronald Jumeau, Seychelles Ambassador to the UN
Special Address: Ms.Monique Barbut, Chief Executive Officer,
Global Environment Facility
Panelists:
Ms. Angela Cropper, Deputy Executive Director,
United Nations Environment Programme
Mr. Robert Calcagno, Head, Oceanographic Museum, Monaco
Mr.William Eichbaum, Vice-President,WWF-US
Mr. Tiago Pitta e Cunha, Cabinet of Commissioner Joe Borg, DG MARE,
European Commission
Dr. Jung-Keuk Kang, President, Korea Ocean Research and Development
Institute (KORDI)
Prof. Raphael Lotilla, Partnerships in Environmental Management for the
Seas of East Asia
Perspectives from World Leaders and Reception
Moderators:
Dr. Gellwynn Jusuf, Chair, Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research,
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Indonesia
Prof. Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director, European Environment
Agency
Dr. Biliana Cicin-Sain, Co-chair and Head of Secretariat, Global Forum on
Oceans, Coasts, and Islands, and University of Delaware
Speakers:
Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Under Secretary of Commerce and
Administrator of National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), US
Mrs. Rejoice Mabudafhasi, Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs,
South Africa
Mr. Karl Falkenberg, Director General, DG Environment,
European Commission
Dr. IbrahimThiaw, Director, Division of Environmental Policy Implementation
(DEPI), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Mr. Warren Evans, Director, Environment Department,World Bank