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COP30 Programming

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Harnessing Ocean Monitoring Technology for Hazard Mitigation and Carbon Management

Format:Panel
Themes:Ocean Solutions & Innovations, Ocean, Carbon & Climate
Lead Organization: Marine Hazards Mitigation Center

This session showcases how ocean monitoring technologies are critical for understanding and mitigating marine hazards. Experts will use real-time data (satellite to autonomous vehicles) to track heatwaves and oil spills.…

Building a Global Ocean Data Ecosystem – How Close Are We?

Format:Panel
Themes:Blue Resilience & Adaptation, Sustainable Ocean Resources
Lead Organization: Fugro

The ocean is changing faster than our ability to understand it—reshaping climate, biodiversity, and disaster risk. How close are we to building the global ocean data ecosystem needed to keep…

Fish for the Future: How to Build Climate-Resilient Fisheries

Format:Panel
Themes:Blue Resilience & Adaptation, Sustainable Ocean Resources
Lead Organization: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego

Panel on building climate-resilient fisheries. Experts will explore how overfishing and climate shocks interact, including marine heatwave impacts on recruitment and mortality, habitat buffering effects, and vulnerable life stages. Discussion…

New Research Frontiers in Law and Science: From the Deep Sea to Rising Sea Levels

Format:Panel
Themes:Ocean Justice & Equity, Ocean, Carbon & Climate
Lead Organization: Durham University

Protecting the Oceans from climate change demands that legal frameworks take the best available science into account. The ITLOS confirmed that GHG emissions constitute a form of marine pollution. The…

Co-Designing Research for Sustainable Ocean Management in West Africa

Format:Roundtable
Themes:Ocean Justice & Equity, Ocean Life & Biodiversity
Lead Organization: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

The upwelling region off West Africa is one of the most productive and biodiverse marine ecosystems in the world, supporting about 200 million people. But little is known about its…

Science That Serves the Shores: Pathways for Resilient Coastal Management

Format:Workshop
Themes:Blue Resilience & Adaptation, Ocean Solutions & Innovations
Lead Organization: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego

In this interactive workshop, participants will probe the path toward integrating state-of-the-art science into coastal resource management. Through 3 case studies, speakers will highlight how research can inform resilient decision-making.…

Racing For The Ocean: Faster & Smarter

Format:Panel
Themes:Ocean Solutions & Innovations, Ocean, Carbon & Climate
Lead Organization: The Ocean Race

The 2025 UN Ocean Conference set the pace. We now need a winning mindset to accelerate action, stay within planetary boundaries, and stabilize the climate. The Ocean Race hosts this…

Pan Amazonian Solutions for Resilient Fisheries Facing Climate Change

Format:Roundtable
Themes:Blue Resilience & Adaptation, Sustainable Ocean Resources
Lead Organization: IFREMER

Round table: in tropical areas, the impact of climate change is unfavorable to fisheries production, but due to a lack of data, quantitative prediction of species-specific impacts is impossible on…

Carbon Services in Marine Ecosystem Accounts: Supporting the UNFCCC and the KMGB Framework

Format:Panel
Themes:Blue Economy & Finance, Ocean, Carbon & Climate
Lead Organization: Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere - IPMA

Ocean Accounts integrate ecological, economic, and social data, providing a framework to inform policymaking, investment, and trade-off decisions. One of the world's largest maritime nations, Portugal was among the first…

Blue Carbon Commitments: Building a Global Ocean–Climate Coalition

Format:Panel
Themes:Blue Economy & Finance, Ocean, Carbon & Climate
Lead Organization: Global Green Growth Institute

At COP30's Ocean Pavilion, Indonesia leads a global call to drive change through blue carbon action. Moderated by GGGI's Malle Fofana, the session brings together Indonesia, Korea, Canada, and the…

Ocean Waves Break(through) in Tropical Cyclone Prediction

Format:Panel
Themes:Blue Resilience & Adaptation, Ocean Solutions & Innovations
Lead Organization: First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, P.R. China

Predictions of tropical cyclone (TC) tracks have improved over decades. Predictions of TC intensity lag behind. Strongest TCs tend to be underpredicted. We show that interactive account of wind waves…

Addressing global Ocean challenges in a dynamic Landscape: Science, Solutions and Diplomacy

Format:Panel
Themes:Ocean Justice & Equity, Sustainable Ocean Resources
Lead Organization: Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Global cooperation is vital to ocean understanding and today's challenges such as climate change, overexploitation and geopolitical shifts reinforce the urgency of this need. Yet, achieving meaningful cooperation is increasingly…

Tackling climate change impacts and promoting sustainable blue economies in Africa

Format:Panel
Themes:Blue Economy & Finance, Blue Resilience & Adaptation
Lead Organization: Ocean Policy Research Institute of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Climate change is harming marine ecosystems and blue economies through rising sea temperatures, stronger storms, and droughts that disrupt fish habitats and livelihoods. Pollution, overfishing, and weak management worsen vulnerabilities.…

Advocating for the Invisible Microbial Majority That Underpins a Healthy Planet

Format:Panel
Themes:Ocean Life & Biodiversity, Sustainable Ocean Resources
Lead Organization: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Columbia University

At the heart of all ecosystems on Earth is an invisible network of micro-organisms that support food webs and underpin the ecosystem services upon which we and our planet depend.…

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