Organizer

• Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ)

Event Overview

Delegations from governments and relevant organizations will share the "Osaka Blue Ocean Vision" beyond the G20 member countries, as well as share their contribution to addressing marine plastic litter and microplastics problems to accelerate worldwide action.

Overall schedule
• Opening speech from Koizumi Shinjiro, Minister of the Environment, Japan
• Speech from participating countries

Contact information of Japanese officials in Madrid is as follows
• Office of Marine Environment, Water Environment Division, Ministry of the Environment
  KAIYOU02@env.go.jp　 ＋34-661-182-550 /＋34-661-182-685

Speaker

• Mr. Koizumi Shinjiro, Japan, Minister of Environment
• Mr. Fady Jreissati, Lebanese Republic, Minister of Environment
• Mr. Vahakn Kabakian, Lebanese Republic, Climate Change Advisor
• Ms. Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, Germany, Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
• Ms. Cheryl Barnes, New Zealand Deputy Secretary, Water & Climate Change, Ministry for the Environment
• Mr. Rauf Hajiyev, Azerbaijan, Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources
• Mr. Jeyhun Hasanov, Azerbaijan, Assistant to the Deputy Minister
• Ms. Helen Ågren, Sweden, Ambassador for the Ocean, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
• Ms. Hasanthi Urugodawatte Dissanayake, Sri Lanka, Director General, Ocean Affairs, Environment and Climate Change, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Ms. Laura Cussen, Chile, Conservation Finance Specialist at the Protected Areas Department, Ministry of the Environment
• Mr. Kushaal K. Raj, Fiji, Ocean Specialist of the Ministry of Economy
• Mr. Lawin Bastian, Indonesia, Deputy Director of Law Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate General of Climate Change, Ministry of Environment and Forestry
• Mr. Dida Migfar Ridha, Indonesia, Director of Coastal and Marine Degradation and Pollution Control, Ministry of Environment and Forestry
• Mr. Jens Frølich Holte, Norway, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Mr. Peter William Thomson, United Nations, Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean
• Ms. Heidi Prislan, The Commonwealth, Adviser, Commonwealth Blue Charter Trade, Oceans and Natural Resources Directorate
• Mr. Kosi Latu, SPREP, Director General