December 2nd 08:30-11:30 Grand Ballroom 3

The Blue Carbon Report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recognizes the crucial role of blue carbon ecosystems such as seagrass beds, mangroves and salt marshes in mitigating global climate change and the carbon cycle. As a big ocean province, Hainan has rich blue carbon resources, how to learn from the successful experience at home and abroad for development? How to take the Marine carbon Center as an opportunity to explore and build a standard system of Marine carbon sink trading mode that meets the needs of free trade port construction and international trading rules and an innovative mode of realizing the value of carbon sink + ecological products?

08:30-08:35 Conference Introduction

Moderator: Wang Licheng, Vice President and Researcher of Hainan Academy of Environmental Sciences

08:35-08:40 Conference speech

Zhou Xueshuang, member of the Party Group and chief engineer of Hainan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment

08:40-09:20 Keynote speech

Lin Guanghui is a professor of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University

09:20-09:35 Keynote speech

Wang Sheng, president of the National Institute for South China Sea Studies

09:35-09:45 Keynote speech

Xing Qiao, President of Hainan Academy of Environmental Sciences

09:45-10:05 Tea break

10:05-11:05 Roundtable dialogue: Development and utilization of blue carbon resources

Moderator: Lv Shuguo, Ph.D., Researcher, Hainan Academy of Environmental Sciences

Fan Wei Professor of Zhejiang University
Yang Pingjian, Director of the Department of Environmental Sociology, Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences
Liu Jihua, Professor, Institute of Oceanography, Shandong University
Yimo Zhang is director of the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) Oceans and Plastics Programme

11:05-11:20 Audience interaction

11:20-11:30 Summary of the meeting

12:00- Lunch