🛡️Governance & Monitoring 🕣8:30📌Malachite I+II
– “Legal indicators: Tools for evaluating the Barcelona Convention”
Centre International de Droit Comparé de l’Environnement – Laurent Vassallo
-“The Compliance Committee and its Role”
Compliance Committee of the Barcelona Convention and its Protocols – Aysin Turpanci
-“One Mediterranean, One Future: Integrated Actions for a Resilient Sea” GEF MedProgramme -Mohamad Kayal, Present with Iryna Makarenko & Birgit Vogel
🌍ICZM & Climate Change – Adaptation 🕣8:30📌Astor Plenary Hall
“The ICZM dream is coming true in Egypt” UNDP – Mohamed Ahmed
🌱 Restoration 🕧 12:30 – 14:30 | 📌 Malachite I+II
“Mediterranean Coastal and Marine Restoration: Bridging Local Practice and Policy for Biodiversity and Climate Resilience”
European Topic Center University of Malaga, Maria del Mar Otero & Dania AbdulMalak, MedWet – Marianne Courouble, MIO-ECSDE – Thomais Vlachogianni
☀️ Climate Change 🕧12:30 📌Beryl I+II
– “100MPA Med Alliance: Building resilient MPAs to face climate emergency by 2030” Spanish Research Council – CSIC
Joaquim Garrabou
– “Forced to Flee: Women and young girls on the Frontlines of Climate Displacement”
Mediterranean Youth Foundation for Development – MYF / Nadine Gad
– “The Africa Grows Green Climate Change Awards”
Association for Sustainable Quality of Living (ISTIDAMA) / Reem Abd El Meguid
🐟Biodiversity 🕧12:30📌Astor Plenary Hall
– “Integrating Species Conservation and Resource Management: Implementing the Species Action Plans for Cetaceans and Sharks & Rays towards Target 4”
WWF Mediterranean / Simone Niedermueller
– “The Pelagos Consortium – Targeting ecosystem-based conservation in the Pelagos Sanctuary” | Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation – Pelagos Initiative / Léa Glâtre
– “Blue Future: Inclusive Pathways towards a Regional Vision for Integrated Coastal and Marine Management”
PAP/RAC / Marina Marković | RAED / Emad Adly
🌿Natural Conservation 🕔17:45 📌Malachite I+II
– “Mainstreaming nature conservation into sectoral policies: The Interreg Euro-MED experience”
Plan Bleu (UNEP/MAP) / Arnaud Terrisse
🌊Mediterranean Sustainability🕔17:45📌Beryl I+II
– “The Protection, Restoration and Connectivity of Marine, Coastal and Freshwater Ecosystems in the Mediterranean: The Challenges Ahead” PAMEX: action plan “The Mediterranean: a Model Sea by 2030” / Arnaud Comolet
– “Upstream action, downstream impact: freshwater and coastal ecosystems restoration in the Mediterranean”
Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation – Donors’ Initiative for Mediterranean Freshwater Ecosystems (DIMFE) / Léa Glâtre
♻️Circular Economy🕔17:45📌Astor Plenary Hall
– “From Sea to Solution: Advancing Circular Economy Partnerships for a Plastic Free Mediterranean”
Enaleia / Ahmed Yassin
– “Circe. Med, the Circular Economy Network in the fight against plastic pollution”
ADEME (French Agency for Ecological Transition) / Ani Movsessiyan
Date: 3 December 2025
Location: Cairo, Egypt