Scientific Programme
Wednesday 12th June
8:30am - 9:00am: Registration & Coffee
Session I: Climate change and sustainability: Education, Research and Health
9:00am - 9:30am: Keynote Lecture: Salvatore Magazù (Virtual): Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier: from Heat Transfer to Climate Models
9:30am - 10:10am: Keynote Lecture: Walter Leal: The role of universities in climate change and sustainable development
10:10am - 10:40am: Mathilde Mousson (Virtual): The next frontier for climate change science: Insights from the authors of the IPCC 6th assessment report on knowledge gaps and priorities for research
10:40am - 11:20am: Keynote Lecture: Ryan Sixtus: How will Climate Change affect our Vulnerable Populations?
11:20am - 11:30am: Maria Gabriela Fragoso Soares Pereira Meirelles (Virtual poster): Public Health Challenges in the Azores Islands: Impacts of Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events on the Prevalence of Cardiovascular Diseases
11:30am - 11:40am: Saman Sobhani (Virtual Poster): Multispecies Justice in Urban Planning: Evaluating the Impact of Development on Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Wales
11:40am - 11:50am: Borhan Albiss (Poster): Design and Fabrication of Nanocomposite Filters for Dairy Industry Wastewater Treatment
11:50am - 12:30pm: Paige Van de Vuurst (Virtual): Climate change and infectious disease: A review of evidence and research trends
12:30pm - 13:00pm: Efrat Eilam: Interrogating Climate Change Education Epistemology: Identifying Hindrances to Curriculum Development
13:00pm - 14.00pm: Lunch Break
Session II: Climate Change: Law and Ethics:
14:00pm - 14:40pm: Keynote Lecture: Robin Attfield: The ethics of climate crisis
14:40pm - 15:20pm: Josh Appignanesi (Virtual): How do we get the message out? Climate Storytelling in film and other media, with examples from the filmmaker's COP-invited documentary My Extinction
15:20pm - 15:50pm: Rinat Zhanbayev (Virtual): Sustainable approach to climate change in the context of Demoethical values, ensuring the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals and just social transformations
15:50pm - 16:05pm: Coffee Break
16:05pm - 16:45pm: Keynote Lecture: Filippos Proedrou: The case for a crime of ecocide: political-legal foundations and climate policy implications.
16:45pm - 17:00pm: Aigul Eserkegenovna Madenova (Virtual): Demoethical values as a tool for sustainable implementation of the interaction of ecological compliance and corporate social responsibility and green transition
17:00pm - 17:30pm: Samuel Winthrop: Discover Sustainability
Thursday 13th June
9.00am - 9:30am: Registration and Coffee
Session III: Climate Change: Food, Agriculture and Water:
9:30am - 10:10am: Keynote Lecture: Aisha Bello-Dambatta: From Fourier to Glasgow: Reflections of the Chronological Progression of Research from Greenhouse Effect to Climate Change and Water Security
10:10am - 10:40am: Sali Atanga Ndindeng (Virtual): Climate smart rice innovations to reduce the impact of climate change on the livelihood of value chain actors
10:40am - 10:50am: Sara Asar (Virtual Poster): Water-Sensitive Landscaping in Desert-Located Egyptian Cities Through Sheer Reductions of Turfgrass and Efficient Water Use
10:50am - 11:20am: Geoffrey Ukala (Virtual): Climate Change, A Threat to Human Health and Food Security in Nigeria: Implication for Sustainable Development
11:20am - 11:50am: Charles Okech Odhiambo (Virtual): Southwestern Kenya’s smallholder dairy farmers’ climate change perceptions, knowledge and adaptation
11:50am - 12:20pm: Mohammad Fahim Afsan Chowdhury (Virtual): National Agricultural Mechanization Policy (NAMP) 2020 for promoting sustainable agriculture in Bangladesh- Challenges and Remedies
12:20pm - 12:50pm: Et Touile Houria (Virtual): Econometric Study of the Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security in Morocco
12:50pm - 14:00pm: Lunch Break
Session IV: Climate Change: Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development:
14:00pm - 14:45pm: Amy Thompson (Virtual): ActNowFilm: Youth Climate Leaders in Conversation with Climate Experts
14:45pm - 15:25pm: Keynote Lecture: Ibram Ganesh: Need for the development of SLAPE solar panels and PAP process to make energy, environment, economy and life sustainable on Earth
15:25pm - 16:05pm: Keynote Lecture: Manorama Sunkara-Vardhireddy: Facile routes towards synthesis of Hierarchical Nanostructured Materials: Applications in devices for environmental monitoring and pollutant degradation
16:05pm - 16:20pm: Coffee Break
16:20pm - 16:50pm: Gulnara Abitova (Virtual): Using Artificial Intelligence for weather prediction in meteorology
16:50pm - 17:05pm: Manaswita Nag (Virtual): Development of efficient visible-light active nanocrystalline Carbon-TiO2 for environmental remediation
17:05pm - 17:15pm: Pooja Bajaj (Virtual): MXenes-SnO2 composites for Gas Sensing Application
17:15pm - 17:25pm: Supraja Sankeshi (Virtual): Simple Strategies to Obtain Porous Hierarchical Nanostructures of SnO2 for improved gas sensing performance for VOCs
Friday 14th June
9:00am - 9:30am: Registration and Coffee
Session V: People, Nature, Land Use and Oceans:
9:30am - 10:00am: Hiroyuki Iseki (Virtual): Climate Change Policy Implementation Challenges in Local Climate Action, Transportation, and Land Use Planning for Japanese Local Governments
10:00am - 10:30am: Amar Maruf (Virtual): Understanding Local Perceptions of Impacts Of Climate Change Among Small-Scale Sama-Bajau Fishers And Their Patrons In Wakatobi National Park, Indonesia
10:30am - 11:00am: Ghanshyam Sharma (Virtual): Policy Challenges in the Sunderbans
11:00am - 11:30am: AKM Nuruzzaman (Virtual): Microfinance Organisations and Social Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Conceptual Framework
11:30am - 12:00pm: Raymond C Jagessar (Virtual): Environmental Management, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Guyana
12:10pm - 12:50pm: Keynote Lecture (Virtual): Daniel Wildcat: Indigenous Knowledges: Antidotes to Destruction in the Anthropocene