**UPDATE: media availability today with Yuhong Xie, Deputy Secretary General of All-China Environment (ACEF) at 13:00-13:30 in Press Conference Room 320. **
Tomorrow is the first day of the Members’ Assembly, during which IUCN’s 1,300+ Member organisations will collectively decide on actions to address the most pressing and often controversial conservation and sustainable development challenges. The Members’ Assembly will run until 10th September.
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Press conferences
All press conferences take place in room 320
10:00-10:30 |
Ocean Clean Wash partners with Parley for the Oceans! Featuring renowned oceanographer Dr Sylvia Earle.
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Plastic Soup Foundation |
10:45-11:15 |
Nano Science Saving Coral Reefs
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Reef Life Restoration |
13:45-14:15 |
Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources |
Congress highlights
All Day |
Students’ Day featuring: Dawn Ige, First Lady, Governor Ige’s wife, State of Hawaii; Allison Sudol, Actress, Musician, Author; Jack Johnson, Musician, Environment Activist and Founder of Kokua Hawaii, Oceanit.
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Pavilion Area of the Hawai'i Convention Center |
08:30-13:00 |
Ballroom ABC |
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14:30-18:30 |
Ballroom ABC |
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19:00-20:30 |
3rd Sitting – Medals and Awards Presentation of the laureate(s) of the John C. Phillips Memorial Medal and the Harold Jefferson Coolidge Memorial Medal; approval of the laureate(s) for Honorary Membership of IUCN and presentation of IUCN Commissions awards.
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Ballroom ABC |
Recommendations
11:30-12:00 |
United States Pavilion |
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12:00-12:30 |
United States Pavilion |
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12:30-13:00 |
United States Pavilion |
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13:00-14:30 |
Saving Hawaiian Birds: Concrete Actions to Prevent Further Extinctions |
Species Conservation Pavilion |
13:30-14:30 |
United States Pavilion |
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14:30- 15:00 |
NOAA’s Science on a Sphere: “Planet at the Crossroads: Eyes on our Estuaries” |
United States Pavilion |
15:30- 16:00 |
United States Pavilion |
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17:00- 17:30 |
United States Pavilion |
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18:30- 19:00 |
NASA Hyperwall: The Group on Earth Observation Biodiversity Observation Network |
United States Pavilion |
19:30-21:30 |
The Mediterranean Sea conservation efforts: Achievements and Challenges |
Oceans & Islands Pavilion |
19:30-21:30 |
Species Conservation Pavilion |
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