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Part 1. A NEW INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION FOR THE DIGITAL OCEAN
- Opening Address - Peter Thomson, UN Special Envoy for the Ocean
- Welcoming words:
- Franz Tattenbach, Costa Rica Minister of Environment and Energy
- Philippe Baptiste, France Minister of Higher Education and Research
- Statements from the European Commission – A European perspective on a new intergovernmental organization for the digital ocean
- Timo Pesonen (recorded message), Director-General, Directorate-General Defence Industry and Space.
- Delilah Al Khudhairy, Director of Maritime Policy, Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries - How digital ocean systems and information services support sustainable blue economies, ocean protection, and ocean-science policy – Pierre Bahurel, Director General, Mercator Ocean International
Part 2. FOCUSED DIALOGUES
- Sustainable blue economy
- Tbd, Greece
- Gustavo Santana Hernández, President, Puertos del Estado, Spain
- Stuart Minchin, Director General, the Pacific Community
- Ocean protection, Safety, and Risk Reduction
- Rosalia Santoleri, President, Italy Oceanographic Commission, Italy
- José Guerreiro, President, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal
- Michelle Heupel, Executive Director, Integrated Marine Observing System, Australia
- Ocean science-policy
- Aldo Drago, Malta College of Arts, Science & Technology
- Nils Gunnar Kvamstø, CEO, Institute of Marine Research, Norway
- Segen Estefen, Director-General, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Oceânicas, Brazil
Concluding remarks -International collaboration for digital Ocean systems and information services - Vidar Helgesen, Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
Part 3. COMMITMENT & CEREMONY
- Endorsing States’ interventions
- Stavros Papastavrou, Greece Minister for Environment and Energy
- Jože Novak, Slovenia Minister of Natural Resources and Spatial Planning
- Marianne Sivertsen Næss, Norway Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Policy
- Agnès Pannier-Runacher, France Minister of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity, Forestry, Sea, and Fisheries
- Other interventions TBC
- Official photo: Endorsing States & high-level speakers
- Closing words