Believing in openness to state institutions and joint cooperation between the Iraqi Ministry of Environment, the University of Technology/Department of Civil Engineering, and the Environmental Research Center
Organized the Quality Assurance and Performance Evaluation Division in the Civil Engineering Department
The environmental symposium entitled (The Nationally Determined Contributions Document for Climate Change, Combating Desertification, and the Importance of Green Spaces) will take place at ten o’clock in the morning on Monday, February 19, 2024, in the hall and in the hall of the martyr Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis in the department.
In the presence of the Head of the Civil Engineering Department, Assistant Professor Dr. Ali Majeed, Director of the Environmental Research Center, and a number of department professors and students.
The symposium began with the Assistant Director of the Baghdad Environment, Engineer Marwa Abdel Karim, providing a brief explanation of the activities and tasks of the Environment Directorate and the most important environmental problems and pollutants that the city of Baghdad suffers from.

Then, the official of the Climate Change Division, Engineer Sarmad Yousef, spoke about the causes of climate change and its effects on various aspects, the most important climate agreements and the outcomes of COP28, and touched on the National Contributions Document (NDC) in adaptation and mitigation and Iraq’s directions and procedures for climate change.
Then the official of the Agricultural Lands and Desertification Monitoring Division, Engineer Muhammad Amjad, presented his lecture on desertification, its causes and negative effects on humans and the environment, and practical ways to combat it. He talked about the phenomena of desertification in Baghdad and its causes, and the importance of afforestation projects, green belts, and increasing green spaces in mitigating the effects of desertification and climate change.
The symposium concluded by presenting the most important recommendations and agreeing on the necessity of activating joint work to develop solutions and treatments for environmental issues and challenges. Certificates of appreciation were also distributed to the participants. The Quality Assurance and Performance Evaluation Division discussed future coordination to hold a series of meetings to formulate a joint scientific cooperation agreement.