Program

9:00 AM –12:00 PM Opening Session Ballroom 2, Sofitel Fully booked 1:00 PM –1:45 PM 1.5°C to Stay Alive: Aligning finance, justice and community voices to keep 1.5°C in reach COP Universities Alliance Convention 1, Crowne Register 1:00 PM –1:45 PM All rise! How the International Court of Justice ruling on climate change can deliver better health and save lives around the world Wellcome Ballroom 3, Sofitel Register 1:00 PM –1:45 PM Launch of the Fiji Carbon Market Plan 2026–2030 MECC Ballroom 5, Sofitel Join the waiting list 1:00 PM –1:45 PM Powering the Pacific: Climate Resilience, Energy Security and Development DCCEEW and DFAT Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 1:00 PM –1:45 PM Public transport and COP31: mode shift's climate moment? Public Transport Association Australia & New Zealand Convention 3, Crowne Register 1:00 PM –1:45 PM Sustainable Ocean Plans as Platforms for Delivering Pacific Blue NDCs World Resources Institute Convention 2, Crowne Register 2:00 PM –2:45 PM Advancing Just Transitions in SIDS MECC Ballroom 5, Sofitel Register 2:00 PM –2:45 PM Birthright! A global call to action to protect pregnant women from global heating Wellcome Ballroom 3, Sofitel Register 2:00 PM –2:45 PM Connecting the Nexus: Climate, Food Systems, Diets, Wellbeing and Non-Communicable Diseases in Pacific and Indigenous Communities The University of Melbourne Baravi 1 & 2, Crowne Register 2:00 PM –2:45 PM Pacific Climate Mobility: Literacy as Justice Beyond Climate Collaborative Convention 3, Crowne Register 2:00 PM –2:45 PM Pacific Ocean Leadership: Science, Innovation & Investment Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - Australia (DCCEEW) Convention 2, Crowne Register 2:00 PM –2:45 PM Reimagining Disability-Inclusive Climate Action United Nations Global Disability Fund (GDF) and Pacific Disability Forum (PDF) Convention 1, Crowne Register 2:00 PM –2:45 PM The Climate Infrastructure for Resilient Coastlines and Riverbanks CIRCAR: Nature Based Solutions for resilient Pacific Live & Learn Environment Education / Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) – Australia / AIFFP Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 2:00 PM –2:45 PM Weave Together: Pacific Owned Solutions Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN) Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 3:15 PM –4:00 PM Bridging gaps between Loss and Damage policy and implementation Nabanga Loss & Damage consortium in partnership with the Santiago Network Ballroom 5, Sofitel Join the waiting list 3:15 PM –4:00 PM Building Pacific Resilience through integrated Climate Finance The University of the South Pacific (USP) Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 3:15 PM –4:00 PM LC3 for Climate-Resilient Pacific Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources - Fiji Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 3:15 PM –4:00 PM Oceania United: Our Common Agenda for COP31 Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN), Climate Action Network (CAN) Australia & Climate Action Network (CAN) Aotearoa Convention 2, Crowne Register 3:15 PM –4:00 PM Progressing the ICJ Decision – Melanesian Perspectives Melanesian Spearhead Group Secretariat Convention 1, Crowne Register 3:15 PM –4:00 PM Workers and Governments United for Just Transition Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and PICTU Fiji Ballroom 3, Sofitel Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM A Regional Approach to Scaling Adaptation Finance for the Blue Pacific Ballroom 3, Crowne Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM Amplifying Voices of Relocation Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany Suva Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM Climate and Communities: Building a Resilient Future in the Torres Strait Gur A Baradharaw Kod Torres Strait Sea and Land Council (GBK) Convention 1, Crowne Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM Expanding Access to Private Finance for SIDS and LDCs Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G) Ballroom 5, Sofitel Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM From Planning to Investment: Pacific 1.5 Pathways Pacific Community (SPC) Ballroom 3, Sofitel Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM Ol saeklon i takem Red Cross - Fiji, Vanuatu and Tuvalu Baravi 1 & 2, Crowne Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM Reforming to Finance our Own Resilience Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), Government of Solomon Islands, Government of Tonga Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM Shifting the Pawa: A community-led approach to a 100% Renewable Blue Pacific 350.org Pacific and Pacific Climate Warriors Convention 2, Crowne Register

9:00 AM –9:45 AM Access to Finance: MDB and climate fund reforms that deliver Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - (DFAT) – Australia and Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - Australia (DCCEEW) Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 9:00 AM –9:45 AM Climate Finance That Leaves No One Behind! Reserve Bank of Fiji Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 9:00 AM –9:45 AM Is the current climate finance architecture fit for purpose? Looking into the role of Farmer Organisations as Climate Finance Intermediaries Pacific Farmer Organisations Convention 3, Crowne Register 9:00 AM –9:45 AM Pacific-led Science, Data and Youth for Climate Action The University of the South Pacific (USP) Convention 2, Crowne Register 9:00 AM –9:45 AM The Next Wave: A Young People's Agenda for COP31 Organizers of the Australia Pacific Youth Climate Dialogue (UNICEF, PISFCC, PICAN, PYC) Convention 1, Crowne Register 9:00 AM –9:45 AM The Tide Remembers: Pacific Stories of Loss, Damage and Gender Justice Plan Pacific, Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN), SICAN & KiriCAN Ballroom 3, Sofitel Register 9:00 AM –9:45 AM Unlocking Indigenous-Led Clean Energy Finance Mirabou Energy Remote Power Systems Ballroom 5, Sofitel Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM 1.5 Needs Family Farming. Can Finance Keep Up? World Rural Forum Convention 3, Crowne Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM Financing the Blue Pacific – an Indigenous Leadership, Customary Ocean Governance and Community Pathways for Conservation Finance Conservation International in partnership with UK-FCDO Ballroom 5, Sofitel Join the waiting list 10:15 AM –11:00 AM Keeping 1.5°C Alive: Defending science and accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN), Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC) Convention 2, Crowne Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM Pacific Leadership for Children: Turning Promises into Progress UNICEF Pacific in partnership with YOUNGO Convention 1, Crowne Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM PNG's National Climate Finance Strategy Monash University, Climate Change and Development Authority - Papua New Guinea, & Expertise France EU-FCCB Programme Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM Reaching the Last Mile: The Pacific Resilience Facility in Action Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF) Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM Yarning for Resilient: Amplifying solutions for Non-Economic Loss and Damage in Oceania (YES-NELD) The University of Melbourne Ballroom 3, Sofitel Register 11:45 AM –12:30 PM Blue Pacific Ocean Finance: Scaling Success Ocean Risk Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA) & Global Island Partnership (GLISPA) Convention 3, Crowne Register 11:45 AM –12:30 PM From vulnerability to resilience: A SIDS minilateral on debt pause clauses, debt swaps and resilient sovereign finance Bridgetown Initiative Ballroom 5, Sofitel Register 11:45 AM –12:30 PM Making agriculture worth choosing: Unlocking finance and opportunity for the next generation of pacific food system leaders COP31 Presidency Youth Climate Champion and the Pacific Climate Envoy for Finance Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 11:45 AM –12:30 PM Operationalising the ICJ Advisory Opinion: What’s Next for the Pacific? Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change Convention 1, Crowne Register 11:45 AM –12:30 PM Sea-Level Rise Science for Pacific Planning Blue Earth Systems Convention 2, Crowne Register 11:45 AM –12:30 PM Vulnerable to Investable: Reimagining Finance for Pacific Asian Development Bank (ADB) Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 1:15 PM –2:00 PM Investing in Natural Capital: The Pacific Opportunity Pacific Action for Climate Transitions Ballroom 3, Sofitel Register 1:45 PM –2:30 PM Belonging Beyond Rising Seas: Safeguarding Nationality, Preventing Statelessness Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Convention 2, Crowne Register 1:45 PM –2:30 PM Building Resilience Without Sacrificing Growth – Pathways for the Pacific World Bank Group Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs), Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) – Australia / DCCEEW Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 1:45 PM –2:30 PM Climate Risk Finance and Insurance for MSMEs Ministry of Industries, Commerce and Business Development - Fiji Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 1:45 PM –2:30 PM Indigenous Peoples Leading Climate Knowledge Pathways: Strengthening Pacific and First Nations Collaboration for COP31 and Beyond Climate Systems Hub - Indigenous Partnerships Team Convention 3, Crowne Register 1:45 PM –2:30 PM NbS for climate adaptation: actions, voices, lessons Kiwa Initiative Secretariat Convention 1, Crowne Register 1:45 PM –2:30 PM Pacific Climate Agriculture and Food Solutions: From Talanoa to Action Ministry of Agriculture Waterway & Sugar, Pacific Community (SPC), CSIRO Baravi 1 & 2, Crowne Register 1:45 PM –2:30 PM Right money, right time - Fixing the timing gap in Pacific climate finance Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC) Ballroom 5, Sofitel Register 3:00 PM –3:45 PM Financing Climate Action for the Ocean: SIDS-led Pathways to Scale Investment and Resilience Government of United Kingdom (UK) Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 3:00 PM –3:45 PM From Pledge(s) to Portfolio: Structuring Predictable, Accessible Climate Finance for Pacific SIDS Ministry of Environment, Climate and Biodiversity - Luxembourg (MECB) Ballroom 5, Sofitel Register 3:00 PM –3:45 PM Holding the Line: First Nations and Pacific Climate Common Threads Convention 3, Crowne Register 3:00 PM –3:45 PM Pacific Resilience and Energy Security Rocky Mountain Institute and Climate Finance Access Network Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 3:00 PM –3:45 PM Pacific Voices Shaping Global Climate Science Pacific Climate Change Centre (SPREP), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) Convention 1, Crowne Register 3:00 PM –3:45 PM Pacific Wisdom for the Global Ethical Stocktake Pacific Elders’ Voice, Center for Earth Ethics and Ministry of Environment and Climate Change - Brazil Convention 2, Crowne Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM Data-driven NDC Implementation in Pacific Nations Asia LEDS Partnership (ALP) Convention 1, Crowne Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM Indigenous Climate Knowledge Exchange: Shared Challenges, Knowledge and Solutions Monash University, First Nations Clean Energy and Advisory Committee Convention 3, Crowne Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM Investor Rights as a Barrier to Climate Action Pacific Network on Globalisation Convention 2, Crowne Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM National platforms: What’s the reality behind the hype? LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation & Resilience & Climate & Development Ministerial Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM Unlocking Blue Pacific Prosperity Pacific Community (SPC) Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register

9:00 AM –9:45 AM Achieving the Action Agenda at COP31: How empowering SIDS leadership will be a win for the world Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 9:00 AM –9:45 PM Does Global Climate Science Serve Oceania Cities and Towns? Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne co-hosts Global Covenant of Mayors & United Nations Habitat Convention 2, Crowne Register 9:00 AM –9:45 AM Financing for Resilient Pacific Communities World Health Organisation (WHO) (co-organized with Governments of Tonga & Vanuatu, UNDP, UNDRR, UNFPA, UNICEF and WFP) Convention 3, Crowne Register 9:00 AM –9:45 AM From Advisory to Action: Making the ICJ Advisory Opinion Count Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New Zealand Ballroom 5, Sofitel Register 9:00 AM –9:45 AM The Fala of Witness: A Pacific Climate Justice Talanoa Caritas Oceania Baravi 1 & 2, Crowne Register 9:00 AM –9:45 AM Tuvalu’s model for financial resilience Ministry of Finance and Economic Development - Tuvalu Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM Financing Climate Justice: Establishing Sustainable Development Trust Funds for Riverine Communities Affected by Resource Development in the Pacific PNG Rural Care Foundation INC Convention 2, Crowne Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM From Suva Climate Declaration to Paris to PEV: Leadership in Climate Action Pacific Elders' Voice (PEV) Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM Living Seawalls & Shorelines for Climate Resilience WWF-Australia and WWF-Fiji / Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) – Australia /AIFFP Ballroom 5, Sofitel Join the waiting list 10:15 AM –11:00 AM Never-Before Voices: Pacific Grassroots Climate Leadership at Pre-COP 31 Fiji Council of Social Services Baravi 1 & 2, Crowne Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM Pacific Regional Dialogue on Energy Transition Investments and Finance IRENA, SPC and Ministry of Public Works, Meteorological Services and Transport - Fiji Convention 1, Crowne Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM Weaving Gender & Health in Pacific Climate Action UNFPA co-organized with Governments of Kiribati, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, UN Agencies (UN WOMEN, WHO, UNICEF and UNFCCC), Pacific Community (SPC), DIVA for Equality and Pacific Disability Forum Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 11:45 AM –12:30 PM Climate Resilient Infrastructure in the Pacific Austrade Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 11:45 AM –12:30 PM From local innovation to systemic resilience: Fit-for-purpose climate finance in the Pacific Pacific Community (SPC) Convention 2, Crowne Register 11:45 AM –12:30 PM One Ocean: COP31 Meets the High Seas Treaty High Seas Alliance Ballroom 5, Sofitel Join the waiting list 11:45 AM –12:30 PM Pacific scaling of solar by innovative finance SunSwap Convention 1, Crowne Register 11:45 AM –12:30 PM Side Event: Launch of Tonga’s NDC 3.0 Government of Tonga Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 1:45 PM –2:30 PM 1.5°C to Thrive: The health gains of keeping 1.5°C within reach University of Auckland (supported by WHO, The Rockefeller Foundation and Wellcome) Convention 3, Crowne Register 1:45 PM –2:30 PM A Decade of Pacific NDC Action and Partnership Pacific Community (SPC) Convention 2, Crowne Register 1:45 PM –2:30 PM Climate Finance for Local Flood Adaptation: Solutions for the Nadi Catchment Abt Associates Inc (Fiji Program Support Platform) Ballroom 5, Sofitel Register 1:45 PM –2:30 PM Pacific Loss and Damage: Evidence to Action United Nations (UNDRR), Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and Governments of Vanuatu and Fiji Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 1:45 PM –2:30 PM Power starts at home: Pacific rooftop solar The Smart Energy Council, C40 and Solar Citizen Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 3:00 PM –3:45 PM A Pacific-Led Transition for Island Shipping Centre for Sustainable Development Reform, University of New South Wales Ballroom 5, Sofitel Register 3:00 PM –5:00 PM Amplifying Pacific Voices through Storytelling The University of the South Pacific, School of Law and Social Sciences Baravi 1 & 2, Crowne Register 3:00 PM –3:45 PM Blue Pacific Leadership: Advancing Ocean–Climate Action Toward COP31 Office of the Pacific Ocean Commissioner - Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat Convention 2, Crowne Register 3:00 PM –3:45 PM Funding Communities the Last Mile: The Pacific Resilience Facility in Action Embassy of Ireland Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 3:00 PM –3:45 PM Nature at the Heart of Pacific Climate Action Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 3:00 PM –3:45 PM Navigating the Pacific Energy Transition Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA) Convention 1, Crowne Register 3:00 PM –3:45 PM Powering the Pacific - A Strategic Dialogue on the Region's Renewable Energy Transition United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and World Health Organisation (WHO) Convention 3, Crowne Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM Accelerating Atoll Adaptation: Country-Led Action Asian Development Bank (ADB) Ballroom 5, Sofitel Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM Connecting Finance to Frontline Communities Oxfam in the Pacific in collaboration with Oxfam Australia and the Tuvalu Climate Action Network Convention 3, Crowne Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM From Commitment to Action: How Niue's Ocean Conservation Commitments are financing long-term ocean protection, climate resilience and sustainable development through a country-led, community-driven approach. Niue Ocean Wide Trust Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM Offshore Renewables for Resilient Islands IRENA, SPC and Ministry of Public Works, Meteorological Services and Transport - Fiji Convention 1, Crowne Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM Pacific Leadership for Stronger NDCs RAD Platform e.V. Convention 2, Crowne Register 4:30 PM –5:15 PM Unlocking Pacific Renewable Energy Investment: The TIDES Partnership in Action Government of United Kingdom (UK) Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register

9:00 AM –9:45 AM Amplifying Pacific Young Women's Voices into COP31 Shifting the Power Coalition Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 9:00 AM –9:45 AM From communities to climate action in Vanuatu Ministry of Climate Change - Vanuatu Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 9:00 AM –9:45 AM Just transition Pacific Island frontline workers Public Services International and Council of Pacific Education Convention 3, Crowne Register 9:00 AM –9:45 AM Pulling the emergency climate brake to keep 1.5 alive Governments of the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, and Vanuatu, with the Climate and Clean Air Coalition Convention 2, Crowne Register 9:00 AM –9:45 AM Renewable Energy for Climate Resilience: Lessons from Remote Papua New Guinea Kokoda Track Foundation (KTF) Convention 1, Crowne Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM Accelerating the Global Early Warning and Early Action Agenda Government of Samoa, CREWS, EW4All Pillars and REAP Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM Addressing the Triple Planetary Crisis through Zero Waste in Big Ocean States: Synergies for Climate, Ocean, and Biodiversity Sasakawa Peace Foundation Convention 2, Crowne Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM Financial Protection Against Climate-related Shocks Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) Ballroom 5, Sofitel Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM Ocean: At the Heart of Climate Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF) Convention 3, Crowne Register 10:15 AM –11:00 AM The Tonga Climate Change Fund Side Event Governments of Tonga & New Zealand Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 11:45 AM –12:30 PM Accelerating Action on Climate Mobility: From Policy Commitments to Implementation Technical Working Group on Human Mobility under PRP (PIFS and IOM Secretariat) Ballroom 5, Sofitel Join the waiting list 11:45 AM –12:30 PM Country-Led Action: 10 Years of Progress NDC Partnership Convention 3, Crowne Register 11:45 AM –12:30 PM Grassroots Recyclers’ Journey: Peaks and Valleys Waste Recyclers Fiji Limited & Pacific Recycling Foundation Convention 2, Crowne Register 11:45 AM –12:30 PM Pacific Councils at the Ocean-Climate Frontline International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) Pacific Islands Office Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 11:45 AM –12:30 PM Rural Electrification: Blended Finance Showcase Government of United Kingdom (UK) Convention 1, Crowne Register 1:15 PM –2:00 PM Australia & The Pacific: Where Climate Solutions Begin Farmers for Climate Action Convention 3, Crowne Register 1:15 PM –2:00 PM From Dialogue to Delivery: Ocean Health, the Blue Economy and the COP31 Outcome Civil Society Forum of Tonga Convention 1, Crowne Register 1:15 PM –2:00 PM From Readiness to Results in the Pacific Green Climate Fund Ballroom 2, Sofitel Register 1:15 PM –2:00 PM Innovative Finance for Pacific Climate Action Pacific Community (SPC) Ballroom 5, Sofitel Join the waiting list 1:15 PM –2:00 PM Pacific Health in a Changing Climate: Country-led Innovation for Resilient Health Systems Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Fiji Ballroom 1, Sofitel Register