From Land to Sea - Rebuilding Ocean Abundance: Pathways to build, and finance coastal resilience
Join the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet (GASP), in partnership with the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, Federated Hermes, Pegasus Capital Advisors and Voyacy Regen, for an exclusive Climate Week NYC session where we will introduce an ambitious land-to-sea regeneration platform for Andhra Pradesh, India designed as a planetary-scale pilot and a potential model for replication in vulnerable coastal regions worldwide. The initiative will connect regeneration across the entire ecological continuum:
Regenerative farms → watersheds → rivers → wetlands → mangroves → corals → fisheries → ocean
This session convenes global leaders, innovators, and a capital coalition across philanthropy, development finance, and impact investment to move from fragmented projects to a measurable, investable, and globally replicable system.
Programme
11:30 - 12:00 | Arrival & Informal Interaction
12:00 – 12:10 | Welcome and framing by Satya S. Tripathi: Why Ocean Resilience Begins on Land
12:10 – 12:20 | Why Ocean Resilience Matters: Philippe Cousteau and Alex Thompson
12:20 – 12:35 | Andhra Pradesh: A State-Scale Living Laboratory - Vijay Kumar Thallam & Budithi Rajsekhar
12:35 – 13:00 | Andhra Pradesh: A pilot for scaled reef restoration - Presented by Heiko Henning; The Mangrove Opportunity for rejuvenating coastal ecosystems - Presented by Suraj Teja; From Ocean Plastic to Ocean Prosperity - Presented by Vikas Chhajer
13:00 – 13:45 | Leadership conversation: Systems approach to scaling and financing Ocean Resilience - Moderated by Ashlan Cousteau
Panelists - Craig Cogut, Mitch Reznick, Ranajoy Basu, Ralph Chami
13:45 – 14:00 | Wrap up and consolidating the Action Agenda
Lunch will be served during the event.
Participating Thought Leaders
Alex Thompson - Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, BigBear.ai
Ashlan Cousteau - Co-Founder, Voyacy Regen
Budithi Rajsekhar - Special Chief Secretary to the Govt. Of Andhra Pradesh
Craig Cogut - Founder, Chairman & CEO, Pegasus Capital Advisors
Heiko Henning - Chief Operating Officer, Voyacy Regen
Mitch Reznick - Global Head of Sustainable Fixed Income, Federated Hermes
Philippe Cousteau - Co-Founder, Voyacy Regen
Ranajoy Basu - Partner & Global Head of Structured Finance, Squire Patton Boggs
Ralph Chami - Co-Founder & CEO, Blue Green Future
Satya S. Tripathi - Secretary General, Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet
Suraj Teja - Founder & CEO, Sow & Reap
Vijay Kumar Thallam - Executive Vice-Chair of RySS and Head of APCNF