Panelists during the side event (L-R): Moderator Tadzio Bervoets, Caribbean Marine Biologist and Ocean Advocate; Surangel Whipps Jr., President of Palau; Ralph Regenvanu, Minister for Climate Change Adaptation, Energy, Environment, Meteorology, Geohazards and Disaster Management, Vanuatu; Kalani Kaneko, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Marshall Islands; and Jeem Lippwe, Permanent Representative of the Federated States of Micronesia to the UN