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

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

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
•    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

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