Program

• Global Perspectives on Marine Litter

• Marine litter and plastic pollution is a shared, global issue, but its adverse effects vary from region to region. How do we cooperate to understand both our part in the problem, as well as in the solution? What is the role of the new global agreement on plastic pollution? What are our tools for change? We are dedicating this year's conference to the theme of global perspectives.

• 09:00

  Conference registration and exhibition 09:00 - 09:45

  Register your attendance for the conference and receive your name tag. 
  The registration will be on the 2nd floor outside the conference room. 
  
  The exhibition will be open

• Opening ceremonies

• 10:00

  Welcome

  Lise Gulbransen, Managing Director, Keep Norway Beautiful

• 10:05

  Introduction from your host

  Kine Martinussen, Keep Norway Beautiful

• 10:10

  Opening remarks

  Asgeir Knudsen, Communications Adviser at The Norwegian Outdoor Board and the chairman of the board for Keep Norway Beautiful

• 10:20

  Video contrubution: On global perspectives

  We asked Dr. Karen Nyberg, retired NASA astronaut, to reflect on the theme "global perspectives" in this pre-recorded message. How can we be inspired by the international partnership onboard the International Space Shuttle? How did seeing the world from afar affect her activism?

• Looking to our new global agreement

• 10:25

  The potential of global regulations for solving plastic pollution

  Eirik Lindebjerg, Global Plastics Policy Manager WWF

• 10:35

  End Plastic Pollution. Preparing for a legally binding global agreement

  Silje Rem, Senior Adviser, Norwegian Environment Agency

• 10:45

  The Industry's roles in the global plastic agreement

  Carl Pedersen, Partnership Manager, Keep Norway Beautiful

• 11:00

  Panel

  Conversation about the role of Norway and its different sectors leading up to the global agreement

• 11:30

  Lunch

• Nordic contributions

• 12:30

  Clean Oceans Through Clean Communities (CLOCC)

  Sigve Ånderå, Program Director, Avfall Norge

• 12:40

  International partnerships: Halting fisheries related litter between India and Sri Lanka

  Carl Höjman, Group Manager Marine Litter at SALT

• 12:50

  Do we have the right tools for change?

  Henrik Lystad, CEO of Norwaste

• 13:05

  Towards full circularity in seafood

  Maja Bævre-Jensen, Communications Advisor, Norwegian Seafood Research Fund

• 13:15

  Awarding "Gullklypa" - The environmental achievement award for cleanup efforts

• Coffee break and tour of the exhibition area for the physical participants

• Plastics without borders

• 13:55

  Production: The local social costs

  Jane Patton, Plastics & Petrochemicals Campaign Manager, Center for International Environmental Law

• 14:20

  Distribution: In a sea of plastic, are nurdles a special case for regulation?

  Kim Jefferies, Special Adviser at Gard AS

• 14:35

  Accumulation: Trends and knowledge of plastic accumulation in the environment

  Peter Harris, Managing Director at GRID-Arendal

• 14:45

  Oceans: Arctic Plastics and Geopolitics

  Dr. Rachel Tiller, Chief Scientist at SINTEF

• Coffee break and tour of the exhibition area for the physical participants

• Tools for change

• 15:10

  Language access as activism, empowering populations impacted by fossil infrastructure

  Yvette Aralleno, activist and founder of Fenceline Watch

• 15:20

  Video contribution: Net free seas in Thailand from Environmental Justice Foundation

  Environmental Justice Foundation, Norwegian Retailers' Environment Fund-funded project

• 15:25

  Implementing Extended Producer Responsibility in Kenya

  James Wakibia, photojournalist and environmental activist

• 15:35

  Video contribution: The Basel Convention in Malawi and Zimbabwe

  BRS Secretariat, Norwegian Retailers' Environment Fund-funded project

• 15:40

  Empowering informal waste pickers

  Sonia M. Dias, WIEGO Waste Specialist

• 15:50

  Concluding remarks

  Kine E. Martinussen, Host