High Level Remarks and Opening

•    Carol Franco, SBSTA Vice-Chair 
•    Ali D Mohamed, Special Envoy for Climate Change Executive Office of the President, Kenya
•    Cecilia Kinuthia-Njenga, Director, ISCP, UNFCCC secretariat

COP 31 Presidency Segment on the Ocean

•    Hon Inia B Seruiratu MP, from Fiji, Envoy for the Ocean (video message)
•    Tuğba Dinçbaş, Director of Action Agenda, Türkiye
•    Sally Box, Deputy President of Negotiations and COP31 Chief Negotiator

Plenary Q&A/ Short Interventions

•    Robert Karoro, Facilitative Working Group (FWG) of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP)

•    Jessie Turner, co-coordinator of the Global Climate Action Agenda, Activation Group 7 and the Ocean Community of Action

Panel on Ocean-based priorities in the NDCs.

•    Ana Paula Prates, Director of the Department of Ocean and Coastal Management, Brazilian Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Brazil (virtual)
•    Kassim Gawusu-Toure, African Group of Negotiators
•    Hiratsuka Jiro, Director, Office of Climate Change Negotiation and Cooperation, Ministry of the Environment, Japan
•    Jonathan Baines, World Resources Institute

Plenary Q&A/ Short Interventions

Karen Evans, Head of the Ocean Science Section, International Oceanographic Commission (IOC)

Panel on ocean-climate-biodiversity synergies, and international cooperation.

•    Leel Randeni, Director (Climate Change), Ministry of Environment, Sri Lanka
•    Iván Vejar, Head of the Climate Change and Environment Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile on behalf of AILAC
•    Alessandra Lamotte, International Relations Officer, European Commission, DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
•    Valentina Germani, Senior Legal Officer, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS)

Plenary Q&A/ Short Interventions

Tristan Tyrrell, Programme Management Officer, Convention on Biological Diversity secretariat

Panel on Means of Implementation

•    N. Charles Hamilton, Climate Change Advisor, Climate Change Unit, Office of the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Alliance of Small Island States  
Isobel Bartholomew & Davi Bonavides, Standing Committee on Finance member and Forum Co-facilitator 
•    Wenxin Li, Senior Climate Change Specialist, Global Environment Facility
•    Jens Sedemund, Head of the Environment and Climate Change, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD

Plenary Q&A/ Short Interventions

Closing

•    Co-facilitators

Breakout Group Discussions

•    Participants will be divided into a total of 9 groups (10–20 people in each group) to discuss Topics 1, 2, 3, with 3 Groups discussing the same topic, based on our guiding questions.
•    There will be a total of 2 rotations, with 35 minutes allocated for each breakout group discussion.
•    There will be a 5-minute transition time between each rotation.

Plenary 

•    Feedback from the breakout group discussions.
•    Parties to highlight good practices and lessons learned from their national and regional contexts in integration of ocean-based action in their NDCs, adaptation plans and enhancing synergies and international cooperation.

Reflections by co-facilitators on key recommendations.

Closing

•    Co-facilitators

Topic 1 Ocean-based priorities in the NDCs

1.            Anna-Marie Laura, Ocean Conservancy

2.            Jessie Turner, United Nations Foundation

3.            Narelle Hill, International Climate Negotiations 
                and Engagement Branch, Department of Climate 
                Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, 
                Australia

               Marine Lecerf, Ocean & Climate Platform

               Maximilian Schwarz, European Bureau for 
               Conservation and Development

               John Powell, UNFCCC secretariat

Topic 2 Means of Implementation

1.            Espen Ronneberg, The Pacific Community

2.            Sara Traerup, UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre

3.            Karen Evans, IOC-UNESCO

               Xuechan Ma, FAO

               Stephanie Ockenden, Independent Consultant

               Natalie Mangondo, Care About Climate

Topic 3 Ocean-climate-biodiversity synergies, and international cooperation

1.            Kilaparti Ramakrishna, Woods Hole 
               Oceanographic Institution

2.            Tristan Tyrrell, CBD Secretariat

3.            Valentina Germani, UN DOALOS 

               Loes Rutten, Marine Environment
               Department, Belgium

               Chelsea Johnson, Center for Climate and Energy 
               Solutions

               Katie Thiessen, University of Plymouth & 
               YOUNGO