DAY 01: WEDNESDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 2019

1 Opening session

• Welcome  
• The Large Marine Ecosystems Approach to the United Nations Ocean Sustainable Development Goal and Decade of Ocean Science: 35 Years of Global Movement, 1984-2019   
• The LME Partnerships: Challenges and Opportunities
• Objectives and structure of the LME21 Annual Consultative Meeting

2 LME Implementation Progress

• Brief introduction of new LME, MSP, MPA, ICM, climate change, and fisheries projects, assisted by a visual aid (1-2 slides, 5-7’ each)

1. (GEF Proj ID: 9369) Implementation of the Strategic Plan of Ecuador Mainland Marine and Coastal Protected Areas Network
2. (GEF Proj ID: 4746) Pacific SIDS Fisheries Conventions
3. (GEF Proj ID: 6920) Implementation of the Arafura and Timor Seas Regional and National Strategic Action Programs
4. (GEF Proj ID: 9451) Caribbean Regional Oceanscape Project
5. (GEF Proj ID: 10076) Pacific Central American Coastal LME Project
6. (GEF Proj ID: 9949) North Brazil Shelf LME Mangroves Project

• GEF LME:LEARN impact

3 The LME Partnership Approach

• Introduction and overview of the session
• Introduction to the clinics
• Clinics: How the existing LME Partnerships work and what challenges they face
• Report from the clinics (5’ each)

1. Multi –level coordination (PEMSEA)
2. Funding partnerships (Med Programme)
3. Action planning for SIDS (Pacific Ridge to Reef)
4. Regional Framework for Ocean Governance (CLME+ Partnership)
5. Science to Policy (SAPPHIRE)

• Discussion
• REVOCEAN: Potential for a partnership

DAY 02: THURSDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2019

• Tracking LMEs’ progress in SAP implementation and achieving SDG14 targets: Quick summary overview
• Detailed elaboration of LMEs’ progress in SAP implementation and advancing SDG14: Results of the questionnaire

1.  A. Gonzales (PEMSEA)
2. D. Vousden (OFNP)
3. A. Gonzales (ATSEA)
4. L. Galbiati (MEDLME)
5. S. Siriraksophon (SCS)
6. S. Coello (Humboldt LME)
7. P. Debels (CLME+)
8. Y. Guo (YSLME)

• Rethinking TDA/SAP approach: from “problem-solving” to “leveraging-opportunities-to-solve problems” in the context of SDGs
  Panel members:
  - Patrick Debels, CLME+
  - Aimee Gonzales, PEMSEA
  - Lorenzo Galbiati, UN Environment/MAP
• Developing future framework for LME reporting towards enhancing SAP contributions to SDG monitoring and reporting
• Oceans and Human Health: Challenges and opportunities
• Introduction to the technical site visit

5 Technical site visit

• Bringing the Private Sector to the Table: Lessons from the Regional Networks
• Investment and partnership opportunities
  Breakout session - Four breakout groups: (1.) Conserving Marine and Coastal Areas through Environmentally Sustainable Blue Economy Strategies; (2.) Sustainable Fisheries Management; (3.) Water and Wastewater Management; (4.) Transforming Plastic Life Cycles
• Group reporting and discussion

7 Advancing ocean science and applications

• Cumulative effects of multiple human stressors in marine systems
• Recent advances in understanding the effects of climate change on the world’s oceans
• A Civil Society Action Programme for the Wider Caribbean
• UN Decade on the Ocean Science: Progress Report
• A new phase of GESAMP
• Discussion

• Medium term LME Consultation Meetings Strategy: Presentation of the framework and discussion
• Discussion on the Medium Term Strategy
• Discussion on the strategy to address the important ocean events in the near future
• Closing discussion
• Closure of the meeting