This final plenary session, scheduled for Day Two of the Dialogue, will discuss a theme that is of the greatest importance to India’s national and regional maritime endeavours, namely, the ‘Impact of Climate-Change upon Holistic Maritime-Security within the Indo-Pacific’.
A variety of perspectives, all of which will be germane and relevant to the development and refinement of India’s own strategies for resilience and adaptation and mitigation of the adverse impacts of climate change within the maritime domain will emerge from the presentations that would be made in this session by speakers from
(1) France
Dr Nicolas Regaud, Director, International Development, Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire (IRSEM), Paris);
(2) Israel
Rear Admiral (Prof) Shaul Chorev, Israeli Navy (Retd); currently the Head, Haifa Maritime Policy and Strategy Research Centre (HMS), University of Haifa,
(3) Mauritius
Mr Raj Mohabeer, Officer in Charge, General Secretariat, Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), Port Louis;
(4) New Zealand
Ms Erin Duncan, Deputy High Commissioner to India, High Commission of New Zealand; and,
(5) India
Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan, AVSM & Bar, VSM, IN [Retd], Director-General, National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi