COP29 Official Side Event

Ocean–Climate–Society: A multisector approach for mitigation, adaptation, finance and capacity building
Hurricane Brian hits Porthcawl Colossal waves batter a lighthouse as it suffers hits twice in a week when hurricane Storm Brian lands on the Porthcawl coast of South Wales, UK.

  • COP29, Side Event Room 9, The Blue Zone, Baku Stadium, Baku, Azerbaijan

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Ocean ecosystems and coastal communities are being impacted by climate change, but the ocean also offers adaptation and mitigation actions. During this event, we will show examples of adaptation, governance and finance framework opportunities, including the Global South, collaboration and ocean integration in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Moderator: Matt Frost, Head of the International Office, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Chair UK National (Ocean) Decade Committee, Chair UK Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership and its Overseas Working Group
High-level address:
  • Niall O’Dea, Co-Facilitator of the UNFCCC Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister of Strategic Policy at Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) – Integration of the ocean across the UNFCCC processes and summary of the mandated UN Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue
  • Regina Rodrigues, representing Brazil's Ministry of Environment, Associate Professor of Physical Oceanography Federal University of Santa Catarina and Chair of the Climate Disasters Section of the Brazilian Network for Climate Change Research – The Brazilian Agenda for the Oceans
Panel:
  • Professor Deborah Greaves OBE FREng , Director, Centre for Decarbonisation and Offshore Renewable Energy , University of Plymouth – Offshore Renewable Energy: 2040 Outlook
  • Liva Kaugure, Natural Resources Officer in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment –Capacity building in support of climate resilient fisheries and aquaculture
  • Constance Chalcate, BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking Chief Sustainability Officer – Opportunities for the financial sector to scale up innovations for a sustainable ocean and develop the blue economy
  • Torsten Thiele, Founder, Global Ocean Trust – How to mobilise finance for capacity building
  • Maddie Millington-Drake, Senior Climate Project Manager, Blue Marine Foundation – Blue Thread: Aligning Climate and Biodiversity National Strategies
Followed by a Q&A with the audience
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Our contribution to the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP29)

Bringing together representatives from 198 parties worldwide, to unite around tangible climate action and deliver realistic solutions, the aim is to meet the Paris Agreement. This Agreement aims to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100 and to adapt to the existing effects of climate change.
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