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09:00–09:50

Unlocking Blue Pacific Prosperity

Pacific Community

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Pacific leaders will showcase the growing impact of Unlocking Blue Pacific Prosperity, celebrate Pacific-led leadership and partnerships, and invite new investment to scale solutions for ocean health, climate resilience and sustainable prosperity across the Blue Pacific. Unlocking Blue Pacific Prosperity is turning regional ambition into investable action. Endorsed by Pacific leaders and Climate Ministers, the Pacific-led platform connects public, private and philanthropic capital with integrated portfolios designed around country priorities. It advances the regional commitment to sustainably manage 100 per cent of the Blue Pacific Continent, including 30 per cent protection, while generating lasting benefits for communities, biodiversity and climate resilience. With US$120 million already mobilised through the Bezos Earth Fund and the Global Environment Facility, the platform is moving from vision to delivery. This high-level event will bring Pacific political champions together with investors, philanthropies and development partners to unveil scalable solutions, forge strategic partnerships and open pathways for new investment. It is an invitation to back a Pacific Blue Deal: one that recognises the ocean not simply as a resource to protect, but as the foundation of Pacific prosperity and a powerful part of the global response to climate change.

Venue
Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion
Speakers
HE Surangel Whipps Jr, President of Palau, Dr Andrew Jones, Deputy Director-General, Science and Capability at the Pacific Community (SPC), Ms Coral Pasisi, CCS Director, SPC, Ambassador Peter Thomson, United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean