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.
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.
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.
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"
Al Duda is Senior Advisor, International Waters with the Global Environment Facility and Chair of the Global Forum Working Group on Linking the Management of Freshwater, Oceans and Coasts. He explains how GEF supports initiatives to address various freshwater, coastal and ocean issues.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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