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
