Veerle Vandeweerd is the Director of the UNDP Environment and Energy Group and CoChair of the Global Ocean Forum. Veerle provides background on the Global Forum and context for the 4th Global Conference on Oceans Coasts and Oceans.
Rolph Payet is Special Adviser to the President of the Seychelles. He is also Chair of the Global Forum Working Group: Small Island Developing States, which advocates and promotes small island states issues especially in relation to oceans.
President James Alix Michel, President of the Republic of the Seychelles, gave a keynote address to the 4th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands, The topic of the address was "Climate Change, Oceans and Vulnerable Communities and Ecosystems: The imperitive for internation responses to the climate divide"
Paul Epstein is Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. This Center is devoted to looking at the health consequences of environmental change.
Lucy Emerton is an economist and Head of the Global Economics & the Environment Programme, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Here she discusses a mechanism called Payment for Environmental Services, something which is increasingly being used in conservation to give people incentives to save the environment.
Lori Ridgeway is Director General of International Policy and Integration in the Canadian Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans. She explains where fishing fits into the ocean agenda.
Ambassador Angus Friday is Permanent Representative of the Grenada Mission to the United Nations and Current Chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). He is also Co Chair of the Global Forum Working Group on Small Island Developing States (SIDS). He discusses the work and focus of AOSIS and the Global Forum SIDS Working Group
Carl Bruch is an attorney with the Environmental Law Institute where he is Co-Director of their International Programs. He is also Co-Chair of the Global Forum Compliance and Enforcement Working Group. He discusses the challenges, experiences, needs and opportunites of compliance and enforcement in relation to oceans, coasts and islands.
Janot Mendler de Suarez is with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and Deputy Director & Project Coordinator of International Waters: Learning Exchange and Resource Network (IW-Learn). Janot is talking about one of the most important global aspects of ocean management, the relationship between climate, oceans and security.
Gerard Mangone is a Professor of International and Maritime Law at the University of Delaware in the USA and the founder of the Center for Marine Policy. He is Chair of the Global Forum Working Group on Maritime Transport and here discusses the issues associated with marine transportation..
Indu Hewawasam is a marine policy specialist with The World Bank and Global Forum Chair for the Capacity Development Working Group. She talks about some of the issues related to capacity building.
Salvatore Arico is co-chair of the Global Forum Working Group with a focus on the high seas, specifically areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction. Salvatore discusses the issues associated with genetic resources in the deep sea.
Ken Sherman heads the Large Marine Ecosystems Program at the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service in USA. He also co-chairs the Global Forum Working Group on Large Marine Ecosystems and is discussing issues associated with and methods to deal with large marine ecosystems.
Monique Barbut is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). GEF is the main funding organisation for global environment issues and here Monique explains the role of GEF within the Global Forum.
Garcia Serge Michel is the former Director of the Fisheries Management Division, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations. He discusses the work of FAO and Fisheries.
Torkil Jønch Clausen is the Managing Director of DHI Water, Environment and Health: Water Policy in Denmark. He is also Co Chair of the Global Forum Working Group Linking the Management of Freshwater, Oceans and Coasts, and is discussing water resources and problems related to water management.
Katya Wowk works at the University of Delaware and also with the Global Oceans Conference 2008 secretariat. Here she discusses her work as a leader of the Global Forum Working Group: Climate, Oceans and Security which recognises the imperative of factoring in climate change effects into coastal and ocean management.
Philippe Vallette is General Manager of NAUSICAA, Centre National de la Mer in France and also Chair of the Global Forum Public Education and Outreach Working Group. Philippe discusses the importance of education and outreach in informing and engaing global audiences in the process of moving the global oceans agenda forward.
Gunnar Kullenberg is a Professor of Oceanography and Chair of the Climate Change and Oceans Working Group. Here he talks about the connection between oceans, climate and people and this working group's role in bringing this into current policy debates.
Michael O'Toole works for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and is Project Manager of the Benguela Large Marine Ecosystem Project. He discusses the South African project involving three countries jointly managing their oceans and fish resources.
Ambassador Jagdish Koonjul is the Ambassador with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Cooperation, Republic of Mauritius, and the former Chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). He is also Co Chair of the Global Forum Working Group on Small Island Developing States (SIDS). He gives a background on the work of AOSIS and SIDS.
Steve Murawski is the Director of Scientific Programs and Chief Science Advisor for the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Fisheries Service in the USA. He is Co Chair of the Global Forum Working Group on Ecosystem-Based Management and Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management. He discusses what has been learned at the Forum and in research activities.
Javier Valladares is an oceanographer from Argentina and also Chairman of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). Here he talks about the role and work of the IOC.
Ambassador Tuiloma Neroni Slade is Former Chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), Former Permanent Representative of Samoa to the United Nations and Former Judge for the International Criminal Court. He is Co Chair of the Global Forum Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Working Group and here outlines the issues faced by small island states.
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