Session 1 : This session aims at reviewing the high-level international negotiations and frameworks where the future of the Ocean is being discussed (BBNJ, IUCN, CBD, COP26, UN DECADES, etc) and reflecting on how to create synergies between these processes to increase their effectiveness.
Moderator: Dr Sébastien Treyer, Executive Director, Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations.

Moderator:
Dr Sébastien Treyer, Executive Director, Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations.

Panelists:
Ms Sophie Mirgaux, Special Envoy for the Ocean, Belgium
Mr Bruno Oberle, Director general IUCN
Mr Alexander Shestakov, Director, Science, Society and Sustainable Futures Division, Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity
Dr Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Assistant DG of UNESCO (UN Decades of Ocean Sciences for sustainable development)
Ms Susan Gardner, Director, Ecosystems Division, UN Environment Programme (UN Decade on ecosystem restoration)
Dr Harriet Harden-Davies, Edinburgh Ocean Leader, Ocean Nexus Fellow at University of Wollongong.

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