AGENDA

Tuesday 10th June, 2025

14:00 - 15:00
Welcome Coffee
15:00 - 16:00
High-level Session: Political Momentum and Regional Leadership
Session chair: Lydia Barfleur (Region Guadeloupe) Welcome notes from organisers: Dr. Audrey Hasson - GEO Blue Planet Blue Zone event restitution: - Claudia Taboada - Dominican Republic - Sylvie Gustave Dit-Duflo - Région Guadeloupe Short addresses: - Ambassador Arnaud Mentré - French Government - Ambassador Safiya Sawney - Government of Grenada - Ambassador Colin Murdoch - Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) - Noemi Espinoza Madrid - Association of Caribbean States (ACS) - Christopher Corbin - Cartagena Convention Secretariat and Caribbean Environment Programme (UNEP-CEP)
16:00 - 16:20
Living with Sargassum: Direct accounts from the field
- Testimony from Grenada by Ambassador Jerry Enoe - Testimony from Martinique  by Frédérick Voyer
16:20 - 17:20
Sargassum from sea to shore: Advancing Science for Solutions
Session chair: Audrey Hasson (GEO Blue Planet) - State of the Art Monitoring and Forecasting by Dr. Nikia Gooding - IMA, Trinidad and Tobago - Supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services by Cindy Fernández García - University of Costa Rica - Unlocking its value in the Blue Economy by John Auckland - Seafields Solutions Ltd - Impacting coastal zones  by Aurelie Rossignol - World Bank - Panel Discussion with session speakers
17:20 - 18:20
The synergies of cooperation for Sargassum: Building Bridges Through Science and Policy
Session chair: Charlotte Gully (Ademe) Panellists Introductions and Discussion : - Dr. Audrey Hasson - GEO Blue Planet - Gabrielle Larricq – French Governement - Ludovic Mollier - Collective Scientific Assessment of IRD - Jane Nurse – EC Global Gateway Grenada Task Force - Lucile Rossin - UNEP/SPAW-RAC
18:20 - 18:30
Final Notes
Dr. Audrey Hasson - GEO Blue Planet
18:30 - 22:00
Cocktail Dinner
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