Parlamentarischer Meeresabend 2025

Germany's role in European ocean policy

After the successful launch of the European Ocean Pact as part of the UN Ocean Conference 2025 in Nice, the central question is now: How can Germany protect the ocean? Implement the Pact in concrete terms – politically, scientifically, economically and socially?

The next Parliamentary Evening of the German Marine Foundation is dedicated to this task. Representatives from the Bundestag, ministries, science, business and civil society discuss the national implementation of the European Ocean Pact goals: the protection and restoration of marine ecosystems, the promotion of sustainable use of the sea and the development of innovative technologies for climate, energy and food security.

Current draft program

6:30 p.m. – Admission and Get-Together

7:00 p.m. - Welcome

• Tim Florian Horn, Board, Planetarium Berlin Foundation
• Frank Schweikert, Board, German Ocean Foundation

The European Ocean Pact: Introduction
Frank Schweikert, Board, German Marine Foundation

Keynote
Carstenträger, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

Keynote
Jutta Paulus, MEP, environmental policy spokesperson for the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament

Impuls
Catherine Chabaud, Ministre déléguée auprès de la ministre de la Transition écologique, de la Biodiversité et des Négociations internationales sur le climate et la nature, chargée de la Mer et de la Pêche (France)

Impuls
Petros Michelidakis, Director boot Düsseldorf

8:00 p.m. - Panel discussion

• With the speakers and Angela Schultz-Zehden, Managing Director, SUBMARINER Network for Blue Growth EEIG

Afterwards: Q&A session & closing remarks

from 9:00 p.m. - Reception & networking

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The Parliamentary Sea Evenings are part of the “Sustainable Work – Promoting Common Good Companies” program of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the European Union Union.