2025 MoP

PBear Range States LOGO Final HR 01 Polar Bear Range States Meeting of the Parties

November 4-7, 2025 (Virtual)

Meeting information

Meeting guidelines

Meeting documents

Annotated agenda

Meeting Agenda (click on the blue ribbons for viewing the agenda for each meeting day)

Direct links to agenda annotations and documents are provided under each agenda item.

Agenda - Day 1, November 4, 2025:

Agenda Day 1 - Link to virtual meeting: TBD

Start time (UTC)	Duration	Item	Title	Session leads, Rapporteurs and Speakers	Observer participation	Annotations	Documents
15:00	15 min	1	WELCOME TO THE MEETING, practical information	Amalie A. Jessen	Open	⊕
15:15	45 min	2	OPENING STATEMENTS FROM HEADS OF DELEGATION	Session lead: Amalie A. Jessen	Open	⊕
	5 min	2.1	Greenland	Amalie A. Jessen
	5 min	2.2	Canada	Caroline Ladanowski
	5 min	2.3	Norway	Aina Holst
	5 min	2.4	Russian Federation	Abidat Magomedova
	5 min	2.5	United States	Alice Garret
	20 min	2.6	Statements by Observers (5 minutes each)	Various
16:00	15 min	3	ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS	Session lead: Amalie A Jessen	Open	⊕
		3.1	Election of Chair	Amalie A. Jessen
		3.2	Election of Rapporteurs	Amalie A. Jessen
		3.3	Adoption of the Agenda	Amalie A. Jessen
		3.4	General rules of procedure for the meeting	Amalie A. Jessen
		3.5	Approval/ admission of observers	Amalie A. Jessen
16:15	15 min		*BREAK*
16:30	90 min	4	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS ON POLAR BEAR CONSERVATION STATUS AND RESEARCH EFFORTS	Session lead: Ernie Cooper	Open	⊕	⊕
	45 min	4.1	IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group updates	Nick Lunn
	45 min	4.2	PBSG presentation (title TBD)	TBD
18:00	20 min		BREAK - Presentation: VIDEO & DISCUSSION: NANUK NARRATIVES: INUIT VOICES ON POLAR BEARS	David Borish		⊕
18:20	45 min	5	INDIGENOUS AND TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE (ITEK)	Session lead & Rapporteur: Dominique Henri	Open	⊕	⊕
	45 min	5.1	Working Together: Advancing Indigenous Knowledge in Polar Bear Conservation, a presentation by the Polar Bear Technical Committee Indigenous Knowledge Working Group	Jason Dicker, Allison Thompson and Jennifer Smith
19:05	150 min (30+60+60)	6	COUNTRY MANAGEMENT AND HARVEST REPORTS Country updates since 2023 related to conservation of polar bears and their habitats, including reviews of implementation of the Agreement	Session lead: Ruth Milkereit Rapporteurs: Ernie Cooper/ Caroline Ladanowski	Open	⊕	⊕
	30 min	6.1	Canada	Caroline Ladanowski and Ernie Cooper
19:35			*MEETING DAY ADJOURNS*

Agenda - Day 2, November 5, 2025:

Agenda - Day 3, November 6, 2025:

Agenda Day 3: Link to virtual meeting: TBD

Start time (UTC)	Duration	Item	Title	Session leads, Rapporteurs and Speakers	Observer participation	Annotations	Documents
15:00	220 min (80+80+60)	8	CIRCCUMPOLAR ACTION PLAN 2015-2025	Session lead: Caroline Ladanowski Rapporteurs: Ernie Cooper/Ruth Milkereit	Open	⊕	⊕
	20 min	8.1	Introduction	Caroline Ladanowski
	20 min	8.2	OBJECTIVE 2 - Communicate to the public, policy makers, and legislators around the world the importance of mitigating GHG emissions to polar bear conservation	TBD
	20 min	8.3	OBJECTIVE 3 - Ensure the preservation and protection of essential (commonly used) habitat for polar bears	Ruth Milkereit
	20 min	8.4	OBJECTIVE 4 - Ensure responsible harvest management systems today that will sustain polar bear subpopulations for future generations	Ruth Milkereit and Eric Regehr
16:20	20 min		*BREAK*
16:40	20 min	8.5	OBJECTIVE 5 - Manage human-bear interactions to ensure human safety and to minimize polar bear injury or mortality	Ernie Cooper
	20 min	8.6	OBJECTIVE 6 - Ensure that international legal trade of polar bears is carried out according to conservation principles and that poaching and illegal trade are curtailed	Ernie Cooper
	20 min	8.7	OBJECTIVE 7 - Carry out coordinated circumpolar population research and monitoring to monitor progress toward achieving the vision of the CAP	TBD
	20 min	8.8	Indigenous and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (ITEK) WG	Ruth Milkereit and Whitney Kellie-Szender (Pituk)
18:00	20 min		*BREAK*
18:20	5 min	8.9	Polar Bears International CAP final review	Emily Ringer
18:25	55 min	8.10	Final review of the 10-year CAP	Mary Colligan
19:20	15 min		*BREAK*
19:35	30 min		POLAR BEAR CONSEVATION AWARD		Open	⊕
20:05			*MEETING DAY ADJOURNS*

Start time (UTC)	Duration	Item	Title	Session leads, Rapporteurs and Speakers	Observer participation	Annotations	Documents
15:00	30 min	9	DISCUSSION ON COMMITMENTS TO A TENTATIVE CAP AND PROGRESS GOING FORWARD		Closed	⊕
15:30	30 min	10	FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION ISSUES	Amalie A. Jessen	Closed	⊕
		10.1	Presentation of Finance Report
		10.2	Special Project Fund and other funding
		10.3	Modification of the PBA RoP if any changes are proposed
16:00	30 min	11	COOPERATION WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS	Amalie A. Jessen	Closed	⊕
		11.1	Cooperation at the PBA level
			IUCN/PBSG
			CAFF (including MoU with CAFF)
		11.2	Cooperation by each Range States	Country HoDs
			CITES
			Other
16:30	30 min		*BREAK*
17:00	15 min	12	REPORT ON DISCUSSION IN CLOSED SESSIONS	Amalie A. Jessen	Open	⊕
17:15	30 min	13	PRESENTATION AND APPROVAL OF TENTATIVE CAP AND PROGRESS GOING FORWARD	Amalie A. Jessen	Open	⊕
17:45	15 min	14	FINALIZE REPORT	Amalie A. Jessen	Open	⊕
18:00	15 min	15	ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES BEFORE CLOSURE OF MEETING (e.g., drafting an English Press Release)	Amalie A. Jessen	Open	⊕
18:15	10 min	16	NEXT MOP AND CHANGE IN CHAIRSHIP	Amalie A. Jessen	Open	⊕
18:25	10 MIN	17	CLOSURE OF MEETING	Amalie A. Jessen	Open	⊕
18:35			*MEETING DAY ADJOURNS*

2025 MoP

Agenda - Day 1, November 4, 2025:

Agenda - Day 2, November 5, 2025:

Agenda - Day 3, November 6, 2025:

Agenda - Day 4, November 7, 2025: