The University of Baghdad launched the activities of the Third International Conference on Climate under the slogan (Iraq and Climate Change: Repercussions of Security and Development), which was organized by the College of Political Science at the university, in the presence of His Excellency the President of the Republic, Dr. Abdul Latif Rashid, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naim Al-Aboudi, Prof. Dr. Munir Hamid Al-Saadi, Rector of the University of Baghdad, and a number of ministers, agents, deputies and officials in the state.
The conference aimed to achieve the maximum benefit by discussing its objectives and axes, which included several axes, including climate change, impacts and responses, sustainable development, and response to the repercussions of climate change on security, climate change challenges, and risk management.
The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naim Al-Aboudi, announced the launch of the climate research competition for professors and graduate students in Iraqi universities, to enable them to contribute qualitatively to providing scientific solutions through published or accepted research for publication in the first and second quarter journals of Scopus and Clarivate containers for the years from 2020 to 2023.
Dr. Naim Al-Aboudi added that the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research is working hard to enable universities to play effective and active roles in this space, intensify their qualitative efforts, increase scientific publishing areas, expand the circle of university theses related to diagnosing these phenomena and providing scientific treatments and solutions.
